John Allen CRAWFORD

  General Notes:

The biographical sketch of John Allen Crawford is on page 856 in BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF LANCASTER COUNTY [Pennsylvania] published in Chicago in 1903 by J. H. Beers & Co.

From DeeAnna Allum Granston


1868 BIRTH of John Allen Crawford ("Jack")

John's date of birth -- April 2, 1868" -- is from his Ohio County, West Virginia birth record on which his name is simply "John A. Crawford." In later years his middle name is indeed consistently recorded "Allen." (But might it actually have been his mother's maiden name "Allum"?)

1868 DEATH of great grandfather, Charles W. Allum

1870 CENSUS, West Virginia, Ohio County, Wheeling ("John," age 2, is with his parents)

1880 CENSUS. Where?

1893 MARRIAGE of John Allen Crawford and Blanche Webster Powers on June 14 in Ridgway, Elk County, Pennsylvania

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Lancaster ("Jno. A.," age 32, born "April, 1868 in West Virginia," occupation "Minister") (wife "Blanche," age 28, born "March, 1872 in Pennsylvania")

1904 DEATH (on January 11) of grandmother Nancy (Cumpston) (Allum) Newland (aka Newlyn)

1904 DEATH (on January 17) of father, Micheal Crawford

1910 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Norristown ("Allen F.," age 42, "Minister, Presbyterian") (wife "Blanche P.," age 38) (John and Blanche had been married 16 years; 'no children)

1920 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Norristown ("Rev. Jno. Allen Crawford," age 51, "Minister, Presbyterian Church") (wife "Blanche W.," age 47) (Blanche's father, "Harrison M. Powers," age 78, "Retired," born in Maine, is in the household)

1930 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Norristown ("John A.," age 62, "Minister, Presbyterian Church") (wife "Blanche W.," age 58)

1937 MOVE to the State of Maine

1941 DEATH, John Allen Crawford, at 73 years 6 months 28 days

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1951 DEATH of wife, Blanche Webster (Powers) Crawford




BOOK: BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF LANCASTER COUNTY, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1893, page 856, excerpt only:

REV. JOHN ALLEN CRAWFORD, pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, South Queen street, Lancaster, is a native of West Virginia, born April 2, 1868, in the city of Wheeling, and comes of Scottish-English ancestry.

Michael C. Crawford, his father, came to America from the North of Ireland about the year 1856 and settled in Wheeling, W. Va. He married Elizabeth Malinda Allum, daughter of John Allum, of Washington county, Pa. Rev. John Allen Crawford was the second child in a family of six children, the names of the others being Lucy, Virginia Lillian, James Dellmore, William Theodore, and Robert Cecil.




BOOK: CADUCEUS OF KAPPA SIGMA, VOLUME 21, page 268:

John Allen Crawford (West Virginia) was born in 1868 in Wheeling, W. Va., and after thorough preparation in local institutions entered the University of West Virginia in 1885, becoming a member of the old Pi chapter. In 1887 he went to Adrian College, Michigan, where he completed his college course. From 1888 to 1891 he attended the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, PA., and on his graduation there was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, in which he has since labored without interruption. He is now serving the Central Presbyterian Church of Norristown, PA., his fourth charge. In 1893 Bro. Crawford was married to Miss Blanche Webster Powers, of Ridgway, Pa.




BOOK: ALUMNI RECORD, West Virginia University, page 119:

John Allen Crawford (Ex. '89), Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Born at Wheeling, W. Va., April 2, 1868; studied at West Virginia University 1885-88. A. B. Adrian College, Michigan, 1888; studied theology at Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian church, Allegheny City, PA., 1888-1891, and graduated May 7th, 1891; licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Washington April 9th, 1890; ordained September 16, 1891 by the Presbytery of Monroe; pastor First Presbyterian church, Hillsdale, Mich., 1891-94; Monaghan Presbyterian church, Dillsburg, Pa., 1895-99; Memorial Presbyterian church, Lancaster City, PA., 1899 to the present; married Blanche Wesbter Powers, of Ridgeway, Pa., June 14, 1893.





CONTRIBUTOR to this page:

David Richard Crawford

John married Blanche Webster POWERS on June 14, 1893 in Ridgway, Elk County, Pennsylvania. (Blanche Webster POWERS was born in March 1872 in Pennsylvania, died in 1951 in Oxford County, Maine and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine.)