"History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Co.'s, Indiana"
Goodspeed Bros. and Co., 1884


JAMES H. CRAWFORD was born in Orange County, N.C., November 16, 1822, the
first of eight children born to SAMUEL and ELIZABETH (PICKARD) CRAWFORD,
both natives of North Carolina, he born April 12, 1792 and died February 14,
1876; she born 1797 and died in 1860. They came to Indiana in 1833,
settling upon a farm in Lawrence County, Ind. Subject was reared to farming
and received an ordinary education. He first rented a farm and afterward
bought a tract of land which he sold, and then farmed in various localities,
buying and selling different farms. In 1874 he formed a co-partnership with
JAMES H. BROWN, in Mitchell, which he disposed of after two years, but
subsequently bought an interest for his son HENRY H. August 16, 1863, he
enlisted in company H, One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, and was promoted to Second Lieutenant. He was mustered
out February 24, 1864. In 1868 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and has
served four terms. He was married September 25, 1845, to MARGARET H. DODD,
daughter of GEORGE and ELIZABETH (BARNHILL) DODD, and born February 10,
1828. To this union have been born eight children, seven of whom are living:
ELIZABETH, ALICE, JANE, HENRY H., CARRIE, ALBERT B. and LYMAN B. The
deceased was ANNIE, who died in 1866. The family are all Presbyterians, Mr.
Crawford being an Elder in the church for thirty years. He is a Republican.
(Marion Township, Lawrence County, Indiana)


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