Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Crawford, Albert January 27, 1825 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  ALBERT CRAWFORD is descended from one of the old colonial 
families of
Montgomery county. He was born in Lower 
Providence township, January 27, 1826.
He grew to manhood in 
the same neighborhood in which he now lives, and was 

educated in the common schools of the vicinity. He is the 
son of Joseph and
Rebecca (Francis) Crawford.

  Joseph Crawford (father) was the son of Joseph
and Ann 
(Edwards) Crawford. Ann Edwards was the daughter of 
Revolutionary
fame. The Edwards family were of Welsh 
descent. 

  The Crawfords were from
Ireland originally, although they 
have been long domiciled in this country.
Joseph Crawford 
served in the militia during the Revolutionary war, being 
with
Washington when he crossed the Delaware to attack the 
Hessian troops at
Trenton, and participating in other 
movements of that period. He was about
eighteen years of age 
at the time of the action at Trenton.

  At the end of
the war he settled in Roxboro, where he 
married. In 1795 he purchased the farm
on which Albert 
Crawford now resides. He lived on this farm the greater part 

of the time until his death which occurred in 1844. He was a 
lifelong member of
the Presbyterian Church. He was a 
director in the Bank of Montgomery county,
now the 
Montgomery National Bank. He was a practical and successful 
farmer. 


 Politically he was a Whig, but never aspired to public 
office. Major Edwards,
the father of Mrs. Ann Crawford, was 
a resident of Montgomery county. About
1775, he sold a part 
of his farm to his son John, and farmed the remainder of
it, 
dying about 1795. 

  The children of Joseph and Ann Crawford were:
Joseph 
(father); Margaret, wife of Captain Abram Brower, and 
Alexander, who
died unmarried. Joseph Crawford (father) was 
born and reared in Lower
Providence township, and after 
reaching manhood he gave all his attention to
farming the 
homestead. He died in early manhood, in 1830, being less 
than
thirty years of age. He was a Whig in politics. His 
wife survived him many
years, and educated the children. 
Later the widow married (second husband)
Jacob Culp. She was 
the daughter of John Francis, a prominent farmer of the 

township, whose other children were: Ann (Mrs. George 
Highley); Deborah (Mrs.
H. Loucks); Eliza (Mrs. Thomas 
Shepard); and Felix, who died when a young man.
All were 
Presbyterians, and were buried at the Lower Providence 
Church. The
children of Joseph and Rebecca Crawford were: 
Ann (Mrs. Joseph Rhoads); Albert,
mentioned hereinafter; and 
Amanda (Mrs. Samuel F. Jarrett). 

  The children by
the second marriage (Mrs. Crawford to 
Jacob Culp): Joseph, who died in 1903;
and Emma (Mrs. 
Davis). Albert Crawford was born and reared on the homestead 

farm, which he inherited under his father's will. When he 
grew to manhood, he
sold it to his sister Ann, and took 
possession of the farm on which he now
lives, which had been 
left him by his grandfather. He has been engaged in
general 
farming, raising some stock, and attending Philadelphia 
markets. He
also fattened cattle. 

  In addition to the home farm of one hundred and
fourteen 
acres, Mr. Crawford owns a tract of forty acres on the 
Perkiomen, and
several Norristown properties. He has been a 
successful farmer, and is a broad-
minded, intelligent 
business man. He has been a Republican from the formation
of 
the party, but has never aspired to office. He was reared in 
the
Presbyterian faith, but is not a member of any church. 
He is a man of integrity
and honor, widely known and highly 
respected.

  Mr. Crawford married, in 1855,
Miss Adelaide Corson, born 
in Lower Providence, near Arcola Station, October
28, 1834. 
She is the daughter of Charles and Sarah (Egbert) Corson, of 
the
well-known family of that name in Montgomery county. 
Charles Corson's father
and grandfather were both named 
Joseph Corson. The Corsons were originally
French Huguenots, 
whose ancestor settled on Long Island, and later in Bucks 

county, Pennsylvania. The brothers and sisters of Charles 
Corson were: Alan W.,
teacher, surveyor, and in general one 
of the most useful men of his day; Sarah,
who married Thomas 
Read; Mary (Mrs. Charles Adamson); Joseph, Charles (father 

of Mrs. Crawford); George, a well-known resident of Plymouth 
Meeting; Dr.
Hiram, who lived to a great age, and died in 
1898; and William, a Norristown
physician; all are long 
since deceased. The family has very remarkable traits,
and 
few have equaled them in the history of Montgomery county in 
ability and
usefulness. All, including Charles, were 
identified with the Society of
Friends, and were active in 
the anti-slavery cause. Charles died in 1878. His
wife was 
the daughter of Laurence and Sarah Egbert. 

  The children of
Laurence and Sarah Egbert were: Thomas, 
George, David, Mary (Mrs. A. Corson);
Sarah and Susan 
(twins), Susan being Mrs. James Rogers, and Sarah, the wife 
of
Charles Corson.

  The children of Charles and Sarah Corson were: Richard R., 

William, George, the well-known attorney, now deceased; John 
J., a leading real
estate agent of Norristown: Laurence, who 
died at the age of forty years;
Adelaide, wife of Mr. 
Crawford; Susan, (Mrs. Felix F. Highley, deceased); and
Mary 
F., who died at the age of forty-nine years.

  The children of Albert and
Adelaide Crawford were: Joseph, 
a druggist, of Philadelphia, who married Mary
Hayer, of 
Lancaster, in June, 1898, and they had three children, 
Sarah, who
died in infancy; Anna H., and Joseph Crawford. J. 
Norman, who farms the
homestead, who married Josephean 
Rittenhouse, and they have four children:
Bessie F., 
Adelaide C., Albert N. and Harold R. Sarah C., wife of W. B. 

Henderson, who died in 1806, leaving two sons; and Mary, 
unmarried.

  At the
death of their daughter, Mrs. Henderson, Mr. and 
Mrs. Crawford took charge of
her two children and are 
rearing them. They are Joseph C., born October 17,
1892, and 
Alan T., born November 7, 1894.


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