CRON, Amos Wise (1825- c. 1870) was active in Whitby, Ont. from September 1856 and advertised his services there as 'architect, civil engineer and estate agent' for nearly five years (Whitby Chronicle, 12 Feb. 1857, 1, advert.). In 1857 he prepared a sophisticated Gothic design for St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Byron Street, WHITBY (Whitby Chronicle, 11 June 1857, 2; 30 April 1859, 3, descrip.). He also drew plans for a church erected in that year at BEAVERTON, ONT. (Whitby Chronicle, 26 Feb. 1857, 2). The drawings for both commissions were presumably lost in a fire which destroyed his office in late 1857 (Whitby Chronicle, 5 Nov. 1857, 2). In 1859 he was employed as local supervising architect to Joseph Sheard for the construction of Trafalgar Castle, the sprawling mansion of Nelson G. Reynolds, WHITBY, ONT., 1859-61.
Cron was a native of Scotland, and likely received his education and training there or in England. In 1851, he was recorded in Bolton, England where he employed as a Clerk-of-Works (Freemason Membership Register, United Grand Lodge of England, 23 December 1851). By 1854, he had moved to nearby Blackburn, Lancashire and was listed there as an architect (Mannex & Co., History, Topography & Directory of Mid-Lancashire, 1854, 309). He arrived in Canada in 1856 and settled in Whitby, near Toronto, but by 1860 he had left the country and moved to Pennsylvania. He is almost certainly the same "Amos W. Cron, Architect" recorded as living and working in Meadville, Penn. in 1869 (Directory of Meadville and the Oil Regions, 1869-70, 193). No information has been found on his activity after 1870.