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DeathYear: 1946
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Parents: James & Sarah (Fesler) Crill
Children: Mrs. Cleo Harvey of Grand Junction, TN; Mrs. Laurell E. (Gay) Peterson of Indianapolis, son James of Pittsburgh; 3 children preceded him in death
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OriginalNotes: North Manchester News-Journal, Sept. 12, 1946, obit: former photographer in N. Manchester, bro. of Mrs. S. D. Henry of Laketon, d. Mon. in Pittsburgh where he lived with son James. Buried Oaklawn Cem., son of James and Sarah Crill, b. near Silver Lake 74 yrs. ago. Married Salena Baker of Laketon, who preceded him in death as did 3 children. Survivors Mrs. Cleo Harvey of Grand Junction, TN and Mrs. Laurell Peterson of Indianapolis. He owned a photograph gallery in N. Manchester for number of years, later locating at Winona Lake. Went to Pittsburgh about 14 yrs. ago [1932].

Abstracts from Bender Funeral Home 1922-1981, v. II, 1983, Wabash County Public Library, James Ezra Crill b. Silver Lake May 14, 1872, son of James & Sarah (Fesler) Crill, m. Selena Dell, retired photographer, lived & died at Philadelphia Sept. 9, 1946, age 74-3-25, dau. L. E. (Gay) Peterson of Indianapolis. Oaklawn Cem.

Notes from Betty Hostetler, March 1, 1997: Gay Peterson lived at Winona Lake, summer cottage only?, Selena Crill was sister of Ed Baker, Betty's father. She does not remember the Crill's.

Wabash Co. Marriage Record: Celena Dell Baker m. J. Ezra Crill, 29 Feb. 1896.

1930 Census, Kosciusko County, Winona Lake: listed as painter, buildings; Ezra age 58, living with wife Selena D. and 2 daughters
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CATNUM: 789
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City: North Manchester
State: IN
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OriginalSource: "Early Photography in North Manchester," North Manchester Historical Society Newsletter, 1996 (Fall?), by Dr. L. Z. Bunker: C. E. Crill was an active photographer in this town in the first decade of the 1900s. He had a small studio on West Main Street. He was especially interested in panoramic views and was said to have climbed into trees, scaled the steeple of the Lutheran Church and into third story attics to get photos of trains, circus parades and Decoration Day exercises or other town activities. The family was crushed by the death of a little daughter from a childhood disease. They believed she might have been saved by more advanced medical treatment in a metropolitan center and soon moved to Detroit.
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PersonID: 731
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City: Fairmount
State: IN
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OriginalSource: Fairmount News, October 7, 1901, p. 4 - Mr. Crill, the photographer, took a view of the water gusher drilled in a few miles east of this city. It shows a stream of water gushing almost to the top of the derrick.

Fairmount News, July 15, 1902, p. 1 - Photographer James Crill made group photo at Smithson reunion. [his town not mentioned]
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OriginalSource: Indianapolis Star, May 9, 1904, p. 9 - Business Chance - Wanted by the people of Upland, Ind.,: A good photographer to locate there. For particulars address J. E. Crill, North Manchester, Ind.

St. Louis and Canadian Photographer, July 1908, p. 226: letter from J. E. Grill (sic) of North Manchester stating that he started his business in 1902; letter endorses the state and national conventions.

St. Louis and Canadian Photographer, Sept. 1908, pp. 318-19 Letter from J. E. Crill of North Manchester who describes his exhibition of lantern slides of N. Manchester houses, businesses, babies, groups, local people, etc. held in Opera House, Sat. Eve. June 27, 8:00.  It was a free event to show the quality of his work.
Photo, dated on verso May 17, 1906

Daily News-Democrat (Huntington, Indiana), July 22, 1909, p. 5 - Item from North Manchester Journal: Will Rickert is here from Huntington this week and has charge of the photographic business of J. E. Crill while the latter is attending a photographer's convention at Rochester, New York. He will be gone several days. 
1910 Census, Wabash County, North Manchester
J. E. Crill, age 27, listed as photographer/own gallery

Daily News-Democrat (Huntington, Indiana), April 8, 1910, p. 2. Item from North Manchester Journal - Will Rickert, who has been assisting J. E. Crill in the gallery here, returned to Huntington Thursday. He had been working on the big order of pictures for Tom Peabody. 

1912 photograph of South Whitley school students, marked "Crill's Studio / North Manchester, Ind." with 1912 written into negative
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OriginalSource: Star Press, Muncie, Indiana, June 14, 1903, p. 8 - Upland column, J. E. Crill, the photographer, left this morning to attend a family reunion, two miles north of Wabash.

Indianapolis Star, May 9, 1904, p. 9 - Business Chance - Wanted by the people of Upland, Ind.,: A good photographer to locate there. For particulars address J. E. Crill, North Manchester, Ind.
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OriginalSource: "Early Photography in North Manchester," North Manchester Historical Society Newsletter, 1996 (Fall?), by Dr. L. Z. Bunker:  The family was crushed by the death of a little daughter from a childhood disease. They believed she might have been saved by more advanced medical treatment in a metropolitan center and soon moved to Detroit. There Mr. Crill soon became a prominent industrial photographer. [1910s?]
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Name: J. E. Crill
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OriginalSource: Huntington Press, July 27, 1917, p. 3 - Crill's Company Opens. Crill's Photo company will open a studio in the new addition to the Grayston building on West Market street, within a short time. The company has been incorporated with a capital of $5,000. J. E. Crill, a photographer of many years experience heads the company.

Huntington Herald, July 26, 1917, p. 3 - Crills Photo Co. is Incorporated. Crills Photo company, incorporated for $5,000, has filed incorporation papers with the secretary of state, and within a short time will open a studio in the new addition to the C. I. Grayston building on West Market street. The head of the corporation is J. E. Crill, who has worked in Huntington studios for several years. 

Huntington Herald, February 15, 1918, p. 3 - J. Crill, the photographer, is again at his studio, after being ill for some time.
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