Guy W. Crawford Biography


	This biography appears on page 12 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				GUY W. CRAWFORD.  

	Guy W. Crawford, of Letcher, has been engaged in the grain 
business for twenty years. He was born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, 
May 15, 1864, a son of Henry A. and Sarah Crawford. The family removed 
to Iowa in 1864 and Guy W. Crawford, who acquired his preliminary 
education in the public schools, afterward spent two years as a student 
in the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames. After leaving school he went 
to South Dakota and has been a resident of Letcher since 1885. For 
twenty years he has been a grain buyer, conducting a growing and 
profitable business. He is thoroughly acquainted with every phase of 
the grain trade in this section of the country and has met with growing 
success in his undertakings.  

	In his political views Mr. Crawford is a republican, baying 
supported the party since age conferred upon him the right of 
franchise. His interests and activity therein led ultimately to his 
election to the state legislature in 1912 and his reelection in 1914, 
and during the session of 1915 he was an active worker in the general 
assembly, taking part in many of the debates on the floor of the house 
and doing important service in committee rooms.