Abram Elza Chrislip

Abram Elza Crislip (Friedrich Carl Christlieb¹, Jacob Christlieb², Abram Chrislip³, Ervin G. Chrislip⁴) [756], born 28 July 1869; died November 18, 1952 in San Francisco, California. California Death Index 1940-1997. Abram, who went by A. E., met his future wife, Ellen Cordelia Orr of Roney’s Point, West Virginia, while attending Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901. Previously, he was a student at Fairmont Normal School at Fairmont, West Virginia from 1893–1896. A. E. Chrislip married Ellen Cordelia Orr on 28 June 1905 in Wheeling, West Virginia. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York. A. E. served as Superintendent of City Schools in Milan, Tennessee from 1901–1905, and Superintendent of City Schools in Macon, Mississippi from 1905–1907. A.E. received his Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, New York City in 1908. He was also an alumnus of the University of California. From 1909–1910, he was Dean of the State Normal School at Tallahassee, Florida. In 1920, he was a high school teacher in Denton, Texas. A. E. was also Professor of Education at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. The couple removed to California in 1921. By 1930, A. E. was a teacher of mathematics at the High School of Commerce at Berkeley, California and a teacher of Psychology at what later became San Francisco State University. His wife, Cordelia, was a college librarian at Berkeley. Born 24 July 1871 in Roney’s Point, West Virginia, she died in 1964. A. E. and Cordelia Chrislip are interred in California at Sunset View Cemetery. Until his death, A. E. Chrislip contributed financially to the care and maintenance of the family cemetery at Chrislip Hollow. Information provided by A. E. Chrislip’s granddaughter, Janet (Scott) Humphreys, daughter of Margaret Cordelia (Chrislip) Scott.

Professor A.E. Chrislip