I slipped a parenthetical caveat into the last entry—and that points to another Fortean. I said that the final substantive mention of Albert Cushing Crehore appeared in Doubt 31. That was necessary because Albert Crehore was briefly mentioned a few years later, but only as a matter of introducing another Fortean: John Davenport Crehore. No, not that John Davenport Crehore, Albert’s father. This was John Davenport Crehore, his nephew, eldest son (and second born child, of nine) to Albert’s brother and business partner, William Williams Crehore. A tangential Fortean.
John Davenport Crehore was born 14 May 1891 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, descendent of a family that could trace its roots to the American Revolution. At the time, his father was building bridges in the area around Pottstown. By 1900, the family was living in New Jersey, where William was a civil engineer. His mother, Anna (Ballard), was from New York. I cannot find him in the 1910 census, but a brief biography of him in the magazine Aviation reports that, after being educated at public schools in New Jersey, he went to work for the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. These were the years when William and Albert were working together on their teletype business. (A 1913 squib in the Yale yearbook on William confirmed John’s profession.)
John Davenport Crehore was born 14 May 1891 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, descendent of a family that could trace its roots to the American Revolution. At the time, his father was building bridges in the area around Pottstown. By 1900, the family was living in New Jersey, where William was a civil engineer. His mother, Anna (Ballard), was from New York. I cannot find him in the 1910 census, but a brief biography of him in the magazine Aviation reports that, after being educated at public schools in New Jersey, he went to work for the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. These were the years when William and Albert were working together on their teletype business. (A 1913 squib in the Yale yearbook on William confirmed John’s profession.)