Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Carpenter MD, Dr. James Calvin May 26, 1878 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: BCG S noemail@none.com July 6, 2025, 9:32 pm Source: Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911 Author: Jesse C. Sell JAMES CALVIN CRAWFORD, M.D., physician and surgeon at Tyrone, Pa., where he has been in successful practice since 1905, was born in Sinking Valley, Blair County, Pa., May 26, 1878, and is a son of Dr. Luther F. and Harriet (Bryan) Crawford, and a grandson of Robert and Mary (Fleck) Crawford. James Calvin Crawford attended the public schools of Sinking Valley until he was twelve years of age, when his parents moved to Tyrone but he remained several years loner with his grandmother in Sinking Valley. With the class of 1897 he graduated from the Tyrone High School and then entered the Millersville Normal School but shortly afterward, when the call came for troops for service in the Spanish-American War, he joined the Sheridan Troop, in 1898, and served until the close of hostilities. Dr. Crawford's father has been prominently identified with the N.G.P., for a number of years and his own connection dates from 1897, and has continued until the present. During active service his rank was first sergeant of the troop. In 1899, Dr. Crawford entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he was a student until 1904, and was graduated in medicine at the University of the South, at Swansea, Tenn., in 1905, and has been in active practice ever since. He is a member of the Blair County Medical Society and of the Pennsylvania State Medical Association. His fraternal connections are numerous, including membership in Tyrone Lodge, No. 494, F& A. M. and the Modern Woodmen of America and others. Dr. Crawford was married to Miss Laura K. Beyer, a daughter of the late F. D. and Elizabeth (Blake) Beyer, the former of whom was interested for many years in a planing mill and lumber business, which, since his death in 1907, has been continued by his sons. The mother of Mrs. Crawford died in the fall of 1902. Dr. and Mrs. Crawford have four children: James C., born August 28, 1905; Margaret, born May 30, 1907; Robert Luther, born July 19, 1908, and Elizabeth Blake, born October 27, 1910. Dr. Crawford maintains his office in his handsome residence which is situated on the corner of Fifteenth Street and Lincoln Avenue, Tyrone. In politics he is a Republican but takes only the interest of a good citizen in public affairs. With his wife he belongs to the First Lutheran Church at Tyrone. Additional Comments: Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by the Blair County Genealogical Society, 431 Scotch Valley Road, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648. Copied and proofread by Linda M. Shillinger LindasTree@aol.com OCRed by Judy Banja jbanja@comcast.net This file has been created by a form at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pafiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb