JOHN CRAWFORD - Biography

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This biography appears on pages 670-671 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JOHN CRAWFORD, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Rochester; was born in County
Antrim, Ireland, Oct. 1, 1809; be came to New Jersey in 1835, and worked
in Jersey City for eight years came to Dover, in April, 1843, and took
up forty acres in Section 30; he built a comfortable residence which be
now occupies; the house they lived in when the first came here (a small
log cabin), was entirely destroyed by fire, Jan. 28, 1844; he lost
everything, the family barely escaping with their lives; he then built
another log cabin, which he occupied until he built this last residence,
and only lately has torn down the old cabin. He married, in New Jersey,
June 16, 1836, Charlotte Saunders, and has ten children- Martha, Harvey,
Isabella, Nathan, Rachel S., William J.. Henry, Robert H., Leona,
Margaret C. and Mary E. His wife was also a native of County Antrim,
Ireland. Isabella married T. M. Barrett, and. resides in Kansas; Rachel
S. married Miles Trowbridge, and resides in Minnesota; William J.
married Jane McKercher, May 14, 1869, and resides in Iowa; Leona married
Jos. McKelvey, and resides in Kansas, Robert married Maggie, L. Young,
in Burlington, Dec. 25, 1878, and resides in Dover; the others are
living with their parents in Dover. Nathan enlisted in Co. C, 1st Wis.
Regt. V. I., and was killed at the battle of Chicamauga; Henry enlisted
in the 39th Wis. Home Guards, and died Aug. 17, 1864, in Memphis, Tenn.,
of typhoid fever; William enlisted in the 39th Wis. for ninety days, and
afterward joined the 17th Wis. Regt. V. I.