George T. Crawford and Mary Eliza Portsmouth

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Husband George T. Crawford ¹

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            AKA: George D. Crawford 2
           Born: 28 Jul 1822 - Allegheny Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: Maj. George Thompson Crawford (1799-1839) 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Parks (      -1833) 2 3

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       Marriage: 5 Oct 1859 2

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Wife Mary Eliza Portsmouth ²

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         Father: John Portsmouth (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Eliza [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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1 M James B. Crawford ²

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2 M John Portsmouth Crawford ²

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3 F Elizabeth Agnes Crawford ²

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General Notes: Husband - George T. Crawford

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He was educated in the old subscription schools, Dr. Kilpatrick's select school, and Jefferson college, at Cannonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Leaving college, he taught school for one year and then engaged in farming, which he followed for several years. He then, while retaining the general management of his farms and milling interests, embarked in the mercantile business in Clarion County. Removing from Clarion County in 1852, he became a partner with A. & H. J. Arnold in merchandising at Kittanning. He successfully pursued these different lines of business until 1865, when the ever-flowing fountains of petroleum in Venango and Butler counties, of that state, began to attract the attention of capital and enterprise. He visited the last-named county, which was the greatest coal-oil region of the world, and being favorably impressed with its then newly-developed petroleum territory, he made investments and became one of its successful oil producers. He was superintendent of the Branch Creek Oil company, had an interest in the Bear Creek Refining company, and owned considerable stock in other fields. In 1852 he removed to Kittanning, where he then resided. He was secretary and treasurer of the Kittanning Gas company, and treasurer and superintendent of the Kittanning Cemetery association. His time was then principally devoted to the management and supervision of his various and extensive business enterprises, from his farming interests in Westmoreland to his oil investments in Butler County.
In politics Mr. Crawford was a republican. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason. He was a member and trustee of the First Presbyterian church of Kittanning, and served as a member of the building committee which erected a splendid church edifice.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 344.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 345.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 455.