J. Pressley Crawford

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg.461





     J. PRESSLEY CRAWFORD, member of the well known firm of Crawford & Son, 
real estate and insurance agents of Morgantown, West Virginia, is a son of 
William A. and Loumonia F. Crawford.  He was born in Greene County, 
Virginia, September 17 1897, where he was trained to work on his father's 
farm early and late.  He attended the public schools of his county, also 
Elon College in North Carlonia.  On January 1, 1918, he married N. Grace 
Barker, who was born in Monongalia County, daughter of Joseph J. Barker and 
Sallie (Morris) Barker.  They have a son, Milton Stanley, born October 31, 
1919.


     In 1918, at the age of twenty-one, Mr. Crawford began his business 
career at Morgantown as a salesman for W.B. Sharp, real estate and 
insurance, and in 1920 he and his father bought out the growing business of 
Mr. Sharp, and the firm of Crawford & Son was formed, which has grown and 
now enjoys an extended clientage, representing some of the standard lines of 
insurance and specializing in city property, improved orchards, farms, coal 
and timber lands.  He also represents the E. A. Strout Farm Agency for his 
section of the state, the largest farm agency in the world.  Mr. Crawford is 
one of the younger business men of Morgantown, and has displayed remarkable 
energy and resourcefulness in everything he has undertaken.  He, like his 
father, is a son of the Old Dominion and feels at home among the "West 
Virginia Hills."  J. Pressley Crawford possesses that indomotable willpower 
to make a thing go if there is any chance, never yielding to failure, and 
the firm of Crawford & Son, of which he is apert, will no doubt be known 
through years to come.


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