U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Crawford, Elson (1866-1947) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Men of West Virginia, Volume II Biographical Publishing Company George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas. Chicago, Illinois, 1903 Pages 444-445 ELSON CRAWFORD, county surveyor of Cabell County and city engineer of Huntington, West Virginia, is a thoroughly practical as well as a self-made man. He was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, January 7, 1866, and is the oldest of a family of three children of A. E. Crawford, who was born March 29, 1835. The parents of our subject are farming people and reside at Arabia, Ohio. Elson Crawford had only the educational advantages to be had in attendance upon the common schools, with two terms of select school, but his natural inclinations along mechanical and engineering lines have been used with fair success, for he has given his employers entire satisfaction along those lines. In 1891 he removed to Huntington, and in September of that year accepted a position in the repair department of the Huntington Electric Light & Street Railway Company's car barn, and in 1895 was made master mechanic, which position he held until April 16, 1900, when he resigned and entered the field of civil engineering, a general practice of which he has since enjoyed. In November, 1900, he was elected to the office of county surveyor, and in May, 1901, was made city engineer. Without the advantages of resident college training, Mr. Crawford credits the greater portion of his success to the thorough presentation of the theory of engineering by the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in which he has been a student since 1893. Mr. Crawford married a Miss Yates of Lawrence County, Ohio, and they have a family of six sons, namely: Herschel, Frederic L., Charles Hobart, Robert Evan, James Myron and John Perry. His residence is at No. 520 7th street. In politics, Mr. Crawford is a Republican. He was at one time a member of Gen. Milroy Camp, Sons of Veterans, his right coming through his father, who was a member of Company E, 5th Reg., West Virginia Vol. Inf., for three years and three months in the War of the Rebellion, but that is the only secret society with which he has ever been connected. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Cabell County, WV #5698 FULL-NAME: Elson Crawford BIRTH-DATE: January 7, 1866 BIRTH-PLACE: Lawrence County, Ohio DEATH-DATE: May 14, 1947 (at age 81y-4m-7d) DEATH-PLACE: St. Mary's Hospital, Huntington, Cabell County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed (Alice Yates) OCCUPATION: Retired FATHER: Alex Crawford MOTHER: (unknown given-name) Gilmore CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Uremia / chronic urinary tract infection INFORMANT: John Crawford (of 1605 Artisan Avenue) BURIAL: Union Cemetery (Chesapeake, Ohio) ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Cabell County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/cabell/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------