Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Crawford, Will Clark July 4, 1892 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, published by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

WILL CLARK CRAWFORD, Superintendent of Public Instruction. Wide experience in 
educational work as a Chautauqua superintendent, and in the Straits 
Settlements and Hawaii, and as a business man, gave Will C. Crawford an 
exceptional equipment for his present position as superintendent of the 
Department of Public Instruction, in which he heads the educational system of 
the Territory of Hawaii.
  While completing post graduate work at Columbia University in 1916, Mr. 
Crawford was field superintendent of Community Chautauquas in New York, and 
from 1916 to 1917 was general superintendent. With the intervention of the 
World War he enlisted in the air service and in 1918 was commissioned a 
lieutenant at Carlstron Field, Fla., where he became a flying instructor. He 
is now a lieutenant in the Reserve Corps.
  From 1919 to 1921 Mr. Crawford was principal of the Anglo-Chinese School in 
Singapore, Straits Settlements, and in the latter year he came to Hawaii and 
became cashier of the Ahukini Terminal Railway Co. on Kauai. In July, 1923, he 
was named deputy superintendent of public instruction and in July, 1925, was 
advanced to superintendent by appointment of Governor W. R. Farrington. He is 
a member of the Honolulu Ad Club, Pan-Pacific Union, American Legion, Hawaii 
Educational Association, National Education Association and the Department of 
Superintendents.
  A descendant of missionary stock on both sides of his family, Mr. Crawford 
was born in Hermosillo, Mexico, July 4, 1892, the son of Matthew A. and 
Harriet (Sturges) Crawford. His father was a missionary to Mexico and his 
mother was descended from a line of early Hawaiian missionaries. He received 
his A. B. degree from Pomona College in 1913, and in 1916 Columbia University 
granted him a Master’s degree. In 1915 Mr. Crawford married Katherine Caldwell 
of San Diego.


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