Charles Nelson Crittenton

Charles Nelson Crittenton (February 20, 1833 – November 16, 1909) was a manufacturer and distributor of drugs and patent medicines, a Protestant evangelist, and a philanthropist, best known for his founding with physician Katherine Waller Barrett of the National Florence Crittenton Mission.

Early life Charles Nelson Crittenton was born on February 20, 1833, on a farm in Henderson in Jefferson County, New York. He was the sixth of eight children to parents with English and Welsh background.

Personal life Crittenton married Josephine Slosson of New York in 1859. He had three children. In March 1882, his four-year-old daughter Florence died of scarlet fever. His wife died shortly before his daughter.

Crittenton has two houses, one at 21 Bleecker Street in New York City and another in Washington, D.C. He was interred in New York City.