Hon. William Crawford, M.D. and Ann Dodd

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Husband Hon. William Crawford, M.D. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1760 - Paisley, Scotland 3 4
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       Marriage: 1796 3

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Wife Ann Dodd ³

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Children

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1 M John S. Crawford, Esq. ^{2 5 6 7}

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         Spouse: Harriet Paxton (      -      ) 6

         Spouse: Elizabeth Irwin Smith (1820-1899) 2 7
           Marr: 24 Oct 1844 2 7

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. William Crawford, M.D.

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He was born in Paisley, Scotland, received a classical education, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and received his degree in 1791. He emigrated to York (later Adams) County, Pennsylvania, and located near the present site of Gettysburg, purchased a farm on Marsh Creek in 1795, and spent the remainder of his life there practicing medicine among his friends, with the exception of intervals in which he was elected to office. He was an associate judge, and was elected to represent York district in the Eleventh Congress, in 1808, as a Democrat or Republican, as the name was then generally termed. He was re-elected to the Twelfth Congress to represent York District and to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses to represent a new district formed, of which Adams County was a part, serving continuously from 1809 to 1817, after which he resumed the practice of medicine.

One of the most prominent citizens of Adams County, for the forty years between 1783 and 1823, was Dr. William Crawford.
In 1781, on receiving his diploma from the University of Edinburgh, he came to America. He landed in Philadelphia, where he met acquaintances who induced him to settle near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. For a time he lived in the town, which had not then become the county seat of Adams, but was one of the villages of York County. In 1794 he bought the farm on Marsh creek, on which he thereafter lived until death. In 1795 he returned to Scotland on a visit, and in 1796, on his return, was married to Miss Ann Dodd, who had come, with an uncle and other friends, from Scotland in the same vessel with him on his return voyage. Dr. Crawford was an active practitioner for a long period, and his practice extended into the neighbouring counties of Cumberland and Franklin, and of Frederick and Washington, Maryland. His reputation was very high and especially in surgery. He became early interested in public affairs, was for several years one of the Associate Judges of the county, and was, for the eight years of Mr. Madison's presidential term, a Representative in Congress for the district of which Adams formed a part. On the expiration of his term of service he resumed the practice of his profession, in which he was actively engaged when overtaken by disease.

1 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 72, 366.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 102.

3 Alfred Nevin, D.D., LL.D., Men of Mark of the Cumberland Valley, Pa. 1776-1876 (Philadelphia, PA: Fulton Publishing Co., 1876), Pg 107.

4 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 72.

5 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 366.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 194.

7 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 468.