Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Crawford, James 1828 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

    JAMES CRAWFORD, a prosperous farmer of Beech Creek Township, is a native of
Columbiana County, Ohio, born February 16, 1828. To his parents, Thomas and Jane
(McClure) Crawford, were born this family: William B., Joann, James, Thomas,
Mary J., Margaret, Martha, Amanda, Nancy and Sarah. Six of these are all that
now live. The parents were honest and industrious people, natives of
Pennsylvania, and both are now dead. James Crawford came to Greene County, Ind.,
the spring of 1853, and engaged in farming in Beech Creek Township, where he has
ever since resided. In 1865, he became associated with Dr. J. P. McIntosh in
mercantile pursuits, and after the retirement of Dr. McIntosh some eight years
later, assumed the proprietorship of the entire business, which he continued
some ten years longer. Mr. Crawford has been a careful and prudent business man,
and by good management and industry has accumulated considerable property,
consisting largely of farms, business property, etc. His marriage with Miss
Nancy Conkle was solemnized June 21, 1850, in his native county, and although no
children have been born to them, they have completed their home circle by
rearing and educating three children from the neighborhood. Mr. Crawford is a
Democrat, a member of the Masonic brotherhood; has served four years as
Postmaster and a number of terms as Township Trustee, and he and wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. During the late civil war, he held
the position of Sergeant, and afterward Second Lieutenant, and while doing
military duty his actions were governed by the sense of honor and patriotism as
when a civilian.



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Beech Creek Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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