At 120 Main Street in Unionville is a Greek Revival house (pdf) built in 1836 by Frederick W. Crum (1813-1895) and his wife Ellice C. Crum (1812-1846). Crum’s second wife was Susan M. Crum (1822-1902). His company, Hill and Crum, manufactured saws. As related in the second volume of the Memorial History of Hartford County (1886):
in 1854 Mr. Albert Hills and Mr. Frederick W. Crum built a small factory on the Cowles Canal. The business continued until the rise of the great saw-factories in Pennsylvania, during the war period, made competition too severe for small concerns. They sold out their factory to the Union Nut Company.
Crum later made caskets and became an undertaker.
Frederick Crum House (1836)
I have a vintage Hiil & Crum Hand Saw with a rip blade, handsome applewood handle, sharp and a pleasure to use. Would like to know when it could have been made. Thank you. Charles MacDonald, MacDonald’s Old Farm, Huntington, Mass.