Bio of Crawford, Rev. Oliver Perry (b.1818) Wabasha Co., MN
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Crawford, Rev. Oliver Perry, (page 1336), one of Elgin's pioneers, was
born in Indiana, December 17, 1818. He is a son of Joseph Crawford, who
ran a flatboat on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. O. P. Crawford was
reared in Indiana, and married Mary Ann Gibson, February 27, 1838. Mrs.
Crawford was born in Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, January 29, 1817, and
her parents, Joseph and Nancy Gibson, were also natives of that state. Mr.
Crawford was the owner of a farm in Indiana, built and operated a mill,
and practiced medicine. He arrived in Elgin on the 30th of June, 1857, and
settled on section 8. At this time he was a local preacher of the M. E.
faith, and often conducted religious services at his house and at various
points in the vicinity. Besides giving his own services gratuitously he
was a liberal supporter of the itinerancy. He was an Abolition Republican,
and served several years as town supervisor, and also as county
commissioner. He enlisted in the third Minnesota regiment, but was
rejected from service on account of physical disability. His present home
is in Iowa, where he is an itinerant preacher of the Free Methodist
church. Of his thirteen children, all but four are living, as follows:
Russell Martin, Brookings, Dakota; Andrew G., Atlantic, Iowa; Sarah J.
(Mrs. William Quigley), Big Lake, Wisconsin; Nancy T. (Morrison), Monroe,
Iowa; Henry B., New Sharon, Iowa; Oliver P., Kansas; Mary A., with
parents; Francis Edward, New Sharon, Iowa.