From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 687.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


ROBERT CRAWFORD

Robert Crawford, one of the leading merchants of Cameron, was born in 
county Donegal, Ireland, in 1820, the son of James and Belle (Ellis) 
Crawford, who were both natives of Ireland.  His mother died in 1855, 
aged about thirty-five years.  During the following year his father 
was married to Mary McBride, and in 1850, the family came to this 
country and settled at Wheeling.   Subsequently they removed to St. 
Louis, whence a few years later the father came to Wheeling on a 
visit and died there at the age of eighty-four years.  By the first 
marriage James Crawford had four children: Robert; John, of Wheeling; 
Jane, deceased, late wife of James Williamson; Ellen, deceased, late 
wife of James Norris.  By the second marriage there were five 
children: James, a white lead manufacturer, who is living a retired 
life; George, deceased, who was a dentist at Zanesville and at St. 
Louis; William, deceased, who was a prominent druggist at St. Louis; 
Mary and Maggie.  Robert Crawford was twenty-one years of age when he 
reached Wheeling.  He found employment as a shipping clerk for 
Forsythe & Baker six years, after which he managed the wharf boat two 
years.  After his marriage in 1850 to Eliza McConaughey, he did an 
extensive draying at Wheeling, running as many as seventeen drays, 
and doing business between Wheeling and Bellaire and Benwood.  For 
several years he has been retired from business, enjoying a 
competency amassed by his industry and enterprise, and is the owner 
of a large farm, several dwellings, and an interest in the store 
which is carried on by his sons, Robert and John, and sisters, Lizzie 
and Ella.  He and his wife are members of the church of England, and 
he is in politics, democratic.  His children are:  James, who is 
married to Lida Davis; Robert, John, Lizzie and Ella.  The third 
born, who became Mrs. Herman Hess, died in 1884, leaving one child, 
Robert H. 


(Linda Fluharty)