Husband Walter Graham Crawford 1
Born: 3 Mar 1850 - Pine Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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Father: John Crawford (1818-1901) 2 3 4
Mother: Lydia Graham (1819-1868) 1 5
Marriage: 2 Oct 1879 6
Wife Emma Louisa Hayes 6
Born: 8 Sep 1861 - Middlesex Twp, Butler Co, PA 6
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Died: 1 Dec 1922 6
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Father: William Hayes ( - ) 6
Mother: Eliza McCafferty ( - ) 6
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1 F Maud Louira Crawford 6
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Spouse: Harry D. Stark ( - ) 6
2 F Anna May Crawford 6
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Spouse: Douglass Keen Ballard ( - ) 6
3 F Margaret Eliza Crawford 6
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Spouse: Dr. Albert McCreery ( - ) 6
General Notes: Husband - Walter Graham Crawford
He was born in Pine Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he attended the district schools, and was also taught by private tutors. After attending Witherspoon Academy, at Butler, and at Westminster College, New Wilmington, he decided to study law, and then entered the law office of Graham & Riddle, at Butler. The senior member of that firm, Walter L. Graham, was then widely known as a gifted lawyer in western Pennsylvania. Mr. Crawford was admitted to the Butler County bar, January 12, 1874, and to the Allegheny County bar in December of that year. In the spring of 1874 he came to Pittsburgh and established his law office; and he established a leading place among the lawyers of Allegheny County, and with the distinct honor of having practiced successfully at that county bar for a period of over fifty years, and in all that time he never had a client say he did not try his case right, or that he charged too big a fee. He never had a quarrel with the court (judges, lawyers or officers). He was a Republican in politics, but never held public office.
In addition to his law practice, Mr. Crawford took an active interest in oil and gas production in western Pennsylvania and Ohio, and he organized many companies and opened up several of the successful fields in those sections, and among these may be mentioned: the Mars Station field; the Connoquenessing; the Moon Township; the Wildwood; the Burgettstown; the Hardy, in Pennsylvania; the Gould Tunnel and the Macksburg (Ohio) fields. He also drilled the first deep well and opened up the Berea sand in Noble County, Ohio, in 1882, near where the Shenandoah, the airplane, was wrecked, in which General Lansdowne was killed; these fields produced not less than forty million barrels of oil. He was also deeply interested in the mining of silicon sand on a property that he owned, and that comprised about three hundred acres in Monongahelia County, West Virginia, the estimated possible production of which is 300 million tons. His industrial plant, erected for the purpose of developing this proposition, was in operation, and silicon sand was being mined and shipped to glass-manufacturing companies in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Mr. Crawford's religious faith was that of the First United Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh.