Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Crawford, Isaac May 24, 1829 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

ISAAC CRAWFORD,
one of the most substantial and reliable business men of Tyrone township and
northern Blair county, is a descendant of the old pioneer Crawford family,
planted in Pennsylvania prior to the revolutionary war by James Crawford Sr.,
of Adams county. He is a son of Capt. James and Eunice (Tubbs) Crawford, and
was born on the farm where he now lives, near Arch Spring, in Sinking valley,
Tyrone township, Blair county, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1829. He paternal
grandfather, James Crawford, Sr., was a native of that wonderful and historic
north of Ireland, whose hardy and adventurous sons bore so honorable and
prominent a part in winning the independence of the Thirteen Colonies. James
Crawford, Sr., first settled in Adams county, but hearing frequently of the
fertility of the wonderful valley drained by the blue waters of the beautiful
Juniata, he soon abandoned his home in eastern Pennsylvania and came to
Sinking valley, settling on the farm where his grandson, Isaac Crawford, the
subject of this sketch, now resides. The revolutionary war opened a short
time after he had settled in Sinking valley, and the Indian raids made into
the Juniata valley compelled him to return to Adams county. After the
colonies had won their independence and peace was declared, Mr. Crawford came
back to Sinking valley, where he died in 1822, at seventy-three years of age,
while Eleanor his widow, survived him seven years, dying in 1829. They had a
family of eight children, three sons and five daughters: Thomas, Capt. James,
Armstrong, Mary, wife of Charles Cadwallader; Betsey, married James McNeil;
Margaret, wife of Robert Adams; Eleanor, wife of Thomas Wallace; and Nancy,
who married Mark Graham. Capt. James Crawford (father), the second son, was
born in Adams county in 1778, and died in Sinking valley in 1848, aged
seventy-three years. He was a farmer and a whig, like his father before him,
and was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. He was commissioned
by the governor of Pennsylvania as a captain of a militia company, which he
commanded for many years. Captain Crawford, in 1818, married Eunice Tubbs,
who was born in 1797, and died in 1886, at the advanced age of eighty-eight
years. They were the parents of eleven children, five sons and six daughters:
Thomas, James, Lucinda, Mary, Elizabeth, Isaac, Foster, Anna, Ellen, John A.,
and Emma.
      Isaac Crawford was reared on the farm, received his education in the
schools of his neighborhood, and commenced life for himself as a farmer. In a
short time he branched out in other lines of business, and purchased the Arch
Spring property, which consisted of several acres of land, a flouring mill,
store and several dwellings. He did a very large and successful business at
Arch Spring until 1887, when he disposed of the entire property, which had
become very valuable by that time, and removed to his present home farm of
one hundred and sixty acres of land, where he has resided ever since. Mr.
Crawford also owns a farm of one hundred and forty acres, which is but a
short distance from where he resides. He is a member of the well known
mercantile firm of Templeton & Crawford, of Tyrone. They deal in dry goods
and groceries, carry a large and complete stock of goods in every department
of their house, and enjoy an extensive and remunerative trade.
      Isaac Crawford is a republican in politics, and although actively
interested in political affairs at an early day, and ever holding that
interest until the present time, yet the career of business which he mapped
out for himself in early life, and which he has so successfully pursued ever
since, has demanded and received the principal part of his time, to the
exclusion of nearly everything else. Mr. Crawford is a member of the
Presbyterian church, and is an example of the success which crowns patient
industry and untiring effort in the business world.

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