[1] Anton Crihan is the representative of the thirteenth generation, male, of the old Moldavian boyar family, the first mention of the reign of Stephen the Great.
The Prince's Book of Constantine Movilă states that Anton Crihan's ancestors honored the boyar's title of "paharnic".
After World War I and the Communist revolution in Russia, Crihan, was among the handful of campaigners who succeeded in annexing most of Bessarabia to Romania.
Trained as an economist, he served on the Central Committee of the National Peasant Party, was elected to several terms in Parliament and was appointed Agriculture Minister.
He finally arrived in the United States in 1949, where he delivered lectures and wrote articles and books championing the reunification of Moldavia and Romania.