He was born on June 6, 1869, to Alexander N. Crowder and Deborah Jane Warfield, in Baltimore, Maryland.[3] He graduated from Dickinson College in 1890.[4][5]
He was a reverend in the Rowayton section of Norwalk, Connecticut, from 1890 to 1893.[1]
He married Louetta Plitt (1868-1936) on April 11, 1893, and they had as their son, Maxwell Alexander Warfield Crowder (1898-1915).
He died on September 27, 1932, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] He was buried in Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.
