Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Crawford, William Barbon 1876 - living 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 675-676

   WILLIAM BARRON CRAWFORD, M. D., Savannah, Georgia, is classed in the foremost
rank of the younger members of his profession in this city, where he was born
and reared.

   Dr. Crawford dates his birth in 1876. Through his father, William C.
Crawford, he traces the line of ancestry back to progenitors in Scotland: and
through his mother, Mary (Barren) Crawford, he claims Irish blood.

   The first of the Crawfords who came to this country from Scotland landed here
as early as 1663 and made settlement in Appling county, Virginia, which was the
home of the family for many generations. There were born his grandfather and
great-grandfather Crawford, both named William, and both of whom, when the
former was a small child, came to Georgia. In Muscogee county, near Columbus,
Georgia, William C. Crawford, the doctor's father, was born, and from there, at
the age of six years, was brought by his parents to Savannah, which city
remained his home during the rest of his life, and where he died in 1883. He was
a successful merchant, and for a number of years was a member of the hardware
firm of Crawford & Lovell.

   The doctor's mother died in Savannah in 1890. She was born in Philadelphia
and in her childhood came to Savannah, where she grew up and married and where
the rest of her life was passed. Her mother was a native of the city of Cork,
Ireland, and a member of the O'Brien family which furnished a bishop to the
Roman Catholic church.

   After his graduation from the Savannah high school, William B. Crawford,
having decided to enter the medical profession, went to New, York to pursue his
studies. There, in 1899, he graduated from the medical department of Columbia
University, after which he spent two years as interne in Roosevelt Hospital.
Returning to Savannah in 1901, he opened an office and began the practice of his
profession among the people who had known him since childhood. Thoroughly fitted
for his work, and with a deep interest in and love for it, his practice has been
attended with success from its beginning, and today he occupies a position among
the leading physicians of the city. He is consulting surgeon of St. Joseph's
Hospital, and is identified with a number of medical organizations, including
the American, the State and County Medical societies. He is a member of the
Catholic church, and also has membership in the Hibernian Society, Knights of
Columbus, and B. P. 0. E.

   Dr. Crawford's family consists of his wife and two children, Mary Barron and
William. Mrs. Crawford, formerly Miss Rachel Miles Shellman, is a daughter of
Maj. W. F. Shellman.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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