TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIO: CROW, William Nixon (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 439-440

        WILLIAM NIXON CROW.  In the life and affairs of Holmes County
William Nixon Crow has been a prominent factor more than thirty-five years.
His first public office was that of postmaster of the Village of Mount
Hope. He has been an attorney, merchant and a leader in affairs. He is the
present judge of the Common Pleas Court of Holmes County.
        Judge Crow was born on a farm in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, February
18, 1866. His parents, John N. and Malinda (Sprankle) Crow, were born in
Ohio, their respective parents having come to this state from Pennsylvania.
The grandfather, William Crow, was a native of Pennsylvania, and on coming
to Ohio settled in Holmes County. He was of Scotch ancestry, an and he
married a Miss Nixon, of Irish stock. They had seven children. Jacob
Sprankle, father of Malinda Sprankle, was born in Pennsylvania, married a
Miss Weaver, and they represented the Pennsylvania Dutch. Jacob Sprankle
lived in Dover, Ohio, where he followed the trade of shoemaker.
        John N. Crow, father of Judge Crow, was for many years a school
teacher and farmer. After his marriage he lived for a time in Tuscarawas
County, but when Judge Crow was three years old the family returned to
Holmes County. There were seven children in the family.
        William Nixon Crow was reared on a farm near Mount Hope, attended
country schools and also the village schools at Mount Hope and Millersburg.
His experience as a teacher in district schools covered two years. When he
was about twenty-one years of age he had the distinction of being appointed
postmaster of Mount Hope. He was the youngest postmaster appointed by
Postmaster General Wanamaker. He was postmaster there four years.
Subsequently he took the law course at the Ohio Normal University at Ada,
graduating in 1898, and soon afterward engaged in practice at Millersburg.
He was the only republican elected justice of the peace at Millersburg, and
for fourteen consecutive years he held the office of superintendent of the
Millersburg Water Works. He performed these duties in addition to his
general law practice, and for a number of years was also proprietor of a
jewelry store at Millersburg, and has had other business interests.
        Judge Crow in 1918 was elected judge of the Common Please Court of
Holmes County. He was chosen on the republican ticket over a normal
democratic majority of 1,800, this being a distinctive compliment to him
personally and to his well-known qualifications for the bench. Judge Crow
took his seat in the office of judge February 9, 1919, for a term of six
years, and he was reelected by about 800 majority. He is a Royal Arch
Masons, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
        Judge Crow married in 1901 Miss Lucy Parkinson of Millersburg. She
was born and reared in that town.



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