Hood River County OR Archives Biographies.....Crow, Guy G. January 7, 1882 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com and July 4, 2006, 1:33 pm Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Volume II, Pages 132 - 133 GUY G. CROW, who has for a number of years has been successfully engaged in a general mercantile business in White Salmon, Washington, has in many ways shown a practical and effective interest in the welfare of his community and is regarded as one of its representative citizens. Mr. Crow was born in Farmington, Whitman county, Washington, January 7, 1882, and is a son of Wayman and Nancy (McCoy) Crow, the former born in Owensboro, Kentucky and the latter in Texas, while her parents were crossing the plains. Mr. and Mrs. Crow died when their son was ten years old, leaving four small children, namely: Guy G.; Mrs. Lydia Bieanz, of White Salmon; Roy, of Multnomah, Oregon; and Mrs. Virginia Laycock, a trained nurse in Oregon City, Oregon. Guy G. Crow was education in the public schools of Hood River, Oregon, and White Salmon, Washington. He arrived in Hood River January 1, 1895, that season being characterized by intense cold and heavy snow. He went to work as a delivery boy, driving a wagon for Hanna & Wolford, general merchants, with whom he remained three years, and then accompanied Clinton M. Wolford to White Salmon, working for him in a store for eight years, during a part of which time he also acted as assistant postmaster. In 1907 Mr. Crow was appointed postmaster of White Salmon by President McKinley and served in that position through the administration of President Roosevelt and under President Wilson, a total period of eleven and a half years. In 1918 he resigned and opened a department store in this place, beginning on a modest scale, with a stock valued at about three thousand dollars. However, he had become favorably known among the people of the community and his business steadily increased until he was carrying a twenty-thousand-dollar stock, including dry goods, shoes, notions, and men’s and women’s ready-to-wear garments. On January 29, 1928, a fire seriously damaged the stock, which he is now disposing of, and will remodel the store and open up with a larger and better stock then before. On June 1, 1904, Mr. Crow was united in marriage to Miss Ethel Johnston, who was born in Mount Ayr, Ringgold county, Iowa, and is a daughter of George and Victoria (Wood) Johnston. Her father, who was a native of Iowa, is deceased, and her mother, who was born in Indiana, is now residing in White Salmon, Washington. Mrs. Crow’s maternal grandfather, Nathan Wood, was a pioneer of Washington , having taken up a homestead about two and a half miles northwest of White Salmon in 1886, at which time there were only three families living in the district, and there were no roads or improvements of a public nature. The land was heavily covered with timber and, after building a log cabin, he entered upon the task of getting rid of the timber. He cleared off and planted thirty acres to orchard, his being one of the first orchards in the western part of Klickitat county. At that time wild animals, such as cougars and bears, were numerous in that locality and became so tame that they would come up to the dooryard for the table scraps which had been thrown out. Mr. Wood lived on that place until a few years prior to his death, when he sold out and moved into White Salmon, where he had bought a home, and there his death occurred in February, 1910. His wife passed away in February, 1920. Mr. Wood was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and took an active interest in the affairs of his community, serving on the school board and assisting in the building of the first church and the first school house in the district, both being constructed of logs. Mrs. Crow was education in the public schools of White Salmon, at Klickitat Academy, in Goldendale, Washington, the high schools in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Prior to her marriage she taught school at Mosier, Wasco county, Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Crow have three children: Mildred, who graduated from the White Salmon high school and had one year in the University of Washington, is the wife of Harold Larsen, who owns a fine farm near White Salmon; Doris, who graduated from the White Salmon High school, is taking the courses in art and home economics at the Oregon Agricultural College, at Corvallis; and Elizabeth is in the grammar school. In his political views Mr. Crow is independent, voting according to the dictates of his judgment. He is a member of White Salmon Lodge, No. 163, A. F. & A. M., of which he is a past master, and White Salmon Lodge, No. 188, I. O. O. F., in which he has passed through the chairs. Besides the modern and attractive home which he owns in White Salmon, he has a splendid ten-acre fruit ranch near the city. Mrs. Crow is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Crow owes his success to his determined and well directed efforts, backed by honorable dealing and uniform courtesy, and throughout the community in which he lives he commands the respect and good will of all who know him. Additional Comments: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Volume II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1928. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/hoodriver/bios/crow59gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 5.8 Kb