Crawford, John

JOHN P. CRAWFORD, born October 12, 1816, was reared in Armstrong county, and attended a district school two miles from his early home. In 1837-38 he engaged in farming and lumbering with his father. Subsequently he learned the trade of carpenter, and pursued this calling from 1840 to 1851 at Brady’s Bend. After an absence of fifteen months on the Pacific coast, during which time he was interested in several mining ventures with fair success, he opened a store at Harrisville, Butler county. In 1860 he removed to Crawford’s Corners, his present residence, and since 1867 the oil business has received much of his attention. He married, October 10, 1843, Barbara E., daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Thomas) Hicks, who was born at Machin, Wales, June 17, 1822, and lived at Nantes, France, until the age of ten years, when her parents immigrated to Orange county, New York. She became the mother of twelve children: Arthur Hicks; Alonzo Grant; Amelia Janet; Annetta Margaret, deceased; Smiley Parker, deceased; Cora Ella, deceased; an infant daughter, deceased; Mead Satterfield, of Six Points, Butler county, who married Amanda Kuhns, of Emlenton, and has one child, Bessie Barbara; Carlisle J., register and recorder of Venango county; Ida J., widow of B.L. Kohlmeyer, and the mother of three children: Haldine and Beulah Lavina, deceased, and Ralph Waldo; Mary A., and Barbara Estella. Mrs. Crawford died February 24, 1888. Politically Mr. Crawford is a Republican. The family, like all the ancestry, are adherents of the Presbyterian church.