When James Franklin Crowther was born on 17 September 1860, in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Crowther IV, was 37 and his mother, Jane Jewkes, was 28. He married Mary Olsen on 31 December 1884, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1870 and Utah, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 6 October 1930, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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English (mainly Yorkshire): variant of Crowder 1.
Scottish: possibly a variant of McGrouther, from Gaelic Mac Grùdair ‘son of (the) brewer’, from grùdair ‘brewer’.
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