BIOGRAPHY: Samuel B. CRAWFORD, M.D., 1878, Juniata Co., PA
  
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  The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, 
  Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, 
  Pennsylvania.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, 
  Page 869.
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    SAMUEL B. CRAWFORD, M. D., was born in Mifflintown, Juniata county,
  in 1817, and was a son of Dr. David and Margaret (Brown) Crawford. He
  was educated in Mifflintown, and read medicine under his father and
  his uncle. Dr. Samuel Crawford, of Franklin county, Pa., after which
  he attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, and received his
  diploma in 1856. For a time he practiced at Mifflintown, but soon
  succeeded Dr. Kilbraith at McCoysville, where he spent his entire
  life. His death occurred at McCoysville, in 1878.
    Dr. Crawford married, first, his full cousin, Maria L. Crawford,
  who died in 1864; they had two sons: James, and David, who died
  young. In 1867 he married Amanda, daughter of William and Jane
  (Harris) Junk, both members of the United Presbyterian church. Their
  children are: Samuel B., married Junia McLaughlin, and has four
  children, Bessie M., Frances E., Milton, and Charles Bryan, named for
  the silver candidate for presidency; Minnie M., wife of William
  Stewart, of Altoona, Pa.; and Margaret Gertrude. Dr. Crawford was
  prominent and popular in fraternity circles, having been a member of
  the Masonic order and of the Odd Fellows at McCoysville. He was
  commissioned at lieutenant-colonel of the Eighteenth Regiment,
  Pennsylvania Militia, by Governor Curtain, September 18, 1862. He was
  a Democrat. The family are members of the United Presbyterian church.
  The Doctor was widely and favorably known, both as a physician and as
  a good citizen.