BIO:  Jesse T. Crawford, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 162

JESSE T. CRAWFORD, second son of Joseph and Frances (Taylor) Crawford, was born in the extreme 
southeastern part of York County, March 25, 1831.  His father was of Scotch-Irish origin, and 
his mother of the English Taylor family, well known in the southern part of Harford County, Md.  
Soon after their marriage they located on a small farm in Peach Bottom Township, where they 
reared a family of four sons and four daughters – two sons and two daughters are still living.  
The subject of this sketch received a fair education at Chestnut Level Academy, and adopted the 
profession of teaching, a pursuit which he followed almost continuously for thirty years, in 
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Kentucky.  He taught one year in York, three years in Hanover, 
Penn., and for eight years had charge of the high school at Delta, where a large number of 
young persons of both sexes were prepared for teaching.  He served five years as justice of the 
peace in Peach Bottom Township, and after the incorporation of Delta, was elected to the same 
office in the borough, which office he still holds.  He took an active part in this 
incorporation, made the survey, and has been town clerk ever since.  He, in addition to his 
official duties, does an extensive business as a surveyor and conveyancer.  He was one of the 
charter members of Esdraelon Lodge No. 176, A. F. & A. M., as well as of the Delta Building and 
Loan Association, of which he is the secretary.  He was, in 1884, a candidate for county 
commissioner, but failed to secure the nomination.  He married, September 5, 1860, Sarah A. 
Healey, of Harford County, Md., a descendant of the Ellicott family, of Ellicott’s Mills, Md., 
and has had five children, four of whom, Elizabeth F., Agnes I., James C. and Joseph R., are 
living, and one Minnie J., dead.  The eldest daughter is a teacher.  His mother died in 1861, 
and his father in 1872.