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Notes for Charles Harper CROZER
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - January 27, 1986
Deceased Name: CHARLES HARPER CROZER, BROKER, PHILANTHROPIST
Charles Harper Crozer, 72, a prominent Main Line real estate broker and philanthropist, who had residences in Haverford and Palm Beach, Fla., died Friday at his home in Haverford after a long illness.
Mr. Crozer, one of the original partners in the family real estate firm of Crozer & Crozer, was the founder of the Firebird Tea Dances, which have been held since 1979 to benefit the Crozer-Chester Medical Center Burn Treatment Center in Upland.
He was born in Upland on the grounds of the old Crozer Theological
Seminary, which was founded by his family. In 1867, the Crozers began the
seminary in a now-historic building, Old Main. The structure was built in 1857 as a normal school for boys by John Price Crozer, Mr. Crozer's great- grandfather. The seminary, founded by the Crozers in cooperation with the Baptist denomination, operated on that site for more than 100 years, until its relocation to Rochester, N.Y., in 1970.
J. Lewis Crozer, Mr. Crozer's great-uncle, founded the original Crozer Hospital in 1899. It later merged with the Chester Hospital in 1963 to become the Crozer-Chester Medical Center. Old Main is now part of the medical-center complex.
Mr. Crozer went into the real estate business on the Main Line himself in 1964 and later combined with brother John Price Crozer to form the partnership as Crozer & Crozer.
From 1968 to 1972, he lived in St. Croix in the West Indies, where he tutored native children who had dyslexia.
He attended the Montgomery School and the Hill School and was a 1939 graduate of Princeton University, where he was a member of the Colonial Club.
He was a member of the Order of the Crown Charlemagne, the Baronial Order of the Magna Carta, Society of the Mayflower Descendants, Society of the Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U.S., the Merion Cricket Club and the Philadelphia Cricket Club.
Survivors: wife, the former Mary Gillen; daughters, Lydia Roeder and Sara Callaghan; granddaughters, and a brother, John Price Crozer.
Services: 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of the Redeemer, Pennswood and New Gulph Roads, Bryn Mawr. Burial will be in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be sent to the Crozer-Chester Medical Center Burn Treatment Center, 15th Street and Upland Avenue, Upland, 19013.
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