Chatham-Wilkinson-Bleckley County GaArchives Biographies.....Crutchfield, Ivey P. 1853 - living in 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 22, 2004, 7:24 pm Author: William Harden p. 928-929 IVEY P. CRUTCHFIELD, as architect and builder, has made a name for himself in his locality in southeastern Georgia, and as he is yet a young man he has prospects for a broader, greater work. Mr. Crutchfield was born at Irwinton, Georgia, in 1878, son of J. I. and Celia (Smith) Crutchfield, both natives of the Empire State of the South; and when he was a small boy the family moved to a farm near Cochran, where he lived until he was seventeen. Then he began life for himself. He learned the builder's trade in its every detail, beginning with hammer and saw, and while he contracted for and built houses of various descriptions he studied architecture; he was not content merely to erect according to the plans and specifications of others, he was ambitious to follow his own plans. For four years he made his home at Vidalia and previous to that time Cochran was the seat of his operations, at both of which places and others are to be found monuments of his skillful workmanship. As a contractor he erected seven of the principal mercantile buildings of Cochran, also the oil mills and a number of the most prominent residences of that town, among them being the $14,000 residence of P. L. Peacock. At Soperton he built a sale stable and cotton warehouse and fifteen mercantile buildings, and later on he planned a $20,000 bank building at Soperton, Georgia. His first work of note as an architect was the building occupied by the large store of Leader & Rosansky, Vidalia. Among his other architectural works are the First-National Bank Building, the Thompson & Hamilton Building, the Crescent City Barber Shop Building, Vidalia Furniture Company Building, the Bank of Vidalia, the New Vidalia Cafe Building, the building occupied by the buggy business of S. B. & E. L. Medows, the annex of Vidalia College Institute, G. N. Mathews & Sons Store, and many residences in Vidalia. He drew the plans and erected the $16,000 residence of R. M. Garbett of Lyons, the county seat of Toombs county, and other buildings erected by him at that place are those of Moses Coleman and I. Q. Cole-man respectively, and the school annex, also the home of F. M. Smith at Lyons. He was the architect of the Bank of Nashville, the Mount Vernon Bank of Mount Vernon, the Uvalda Bank of Uvalda, Georgia, the Farmers-Merchants Bank of Nunez, and the Bank of Soperton. In January, 1913, he moved to Savannah and opened an office in the Germania Building. June 10, 1906, Mr. Crutchfield married Miss Annie Renfroe, daughter of Thomas Renfroe of Cochran, and they have two children: Lawrin and Ivy Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Crutchfield are members of the Methodist church, and, fraternally, he is identified with the Knights of Pythias. Additional Comments: From: A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1913 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/chatham/bios/gbs420crutchfi.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb