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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Thomas H. Crawford ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Thomas H. Crawford
LAST NAME: Crawford FIRST NAME: Thomas MIDDLE NAME: H. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Professor GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: June 24, 1840 DIED: 31 May 1916 BURIED: June 1916
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  School Teacher; Superintendent of Public Schools
BIRTH PLACE:  Clarksburg, Decatur Co., Indiana
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
OSBH DC (Multnomah County 1916) #1100 - Thomas H. Crawford, male, married, b. 24 Jun 1840 in Iowa, d. 31 May 1916 in Portland, Oregon (St. Vincent's Hospital) at the age of 75 yr's 9 m's 6 d's, name of father Robert Crawford, maiden name of mother Elizabeth Henry, interment 1 Jun, undertaker J. P. Finley and Son (Portland), informant Mrs. T. H. Crawford of Portland, Oregon.
1870 CENSUS enumerates T. H. Crawford, teacher, age 30, b. Indiana, and Emily, age 23, born in Wisconsin, along with 3 children, Maud, (age 5), Merton (age 2) and Mary (age 1) - all children born in Oregon, Mary is probably "Mary Pearl".
DISCREPANCY - Obit gives place of birth as Indiana, Mrs. Crawford (as informant) gives birth place as Iowa on Death Cert.

BIOGRAPHICAL:
PROFESSOR T. H. CRAWFORD -- Prominent among those who are in charge of the educational interests of our State stands the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. For years past he has been prominently connected with various institutions of learning, until the profession of a teacher, than which there is no higher or nobler, has become second nature to him, and none in the ranks of that profession stand higher or more universally command the respect and esteem of the general public than does Prof. Crawford. His record as a teacher and as a man and citizen is without blemish, and his friends and admirers are legion. 
He was born in Clarksburg, Indiana, June 24, 1840, and with his parents crossed the plains and reached Oregon in 1852, and settled on a farm near Brownsville, in Linn county. He attended the district schools until 1858, when he entered Santiam Academy, where he remained several months. He commenced teaching in the fall of 1859, in the Cowan district, near Albany, and in November of that year he entered the Willamette University and graduated in the classical course in the class of '63. The succeeding three years were spent in teaching at Sublimity, and in September, 1866, he took charge of the public schools of Salem, where he remained until December, 1867, when he came to Portland and accepted a position in the Portland Female Academy, under Prof. T. M. Gatch. He remained here until July, 1870, when he was appointed Principal of the North Portland Public School, where he remained two years, when in September of 1872, having been elected Professor of Natural Science in the Willamette University, he moved to Salem. This position he resigned in December of 1875, and for a few months devoted his attention to the real estate and insurance business. In September of 1876, he was elected to the Principalship of the Central School in Portland, and remained there for one year, when he was elected City Superintendent of the Portland Public Schools, which high and responsible position he still occupies, this being the sixth year of his service in that capacity. 
He has been a prominent member of the I.O.O.F. since 1867, and in 1875 was one of the Grand Representatives to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, which met at Indianapolis, Indiana. During the years 1867-9 and 1876-77 he was Grand Secretary of the I.O.G.T. 
His parents, Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Crawford, are still living, in the enjoyment of a ripe old age, at Brownsville. Prof. Crawford's educational advantages were secured mainly by his own exertions; earning means to pay his expenses by engaging in various kinds of labor during vacations and on Saturdays. While attending the Willamette University, at Salem, he sawed wood, built fires, swept the university and acted as sexton of the old M.E. church to earn money to pay his school expenses, and during the greater part of the time "bached" in the old "third story." Among his classmates we note the honored names of Hon. J. B. Waldo, Rev. P.S. Knight, Hon. Syl. C. Simpson, P. L. Willis, Esq., and Hon. O.N. Denny. 
Prof. Crawford was married to Miss Emily B. Crandall, in Salem, July 24, 1864, four children being born to the family, the first three of whom fell victims to that dread disease, diphtheria, and died within one week in 1875, his wife passing away in August of the present year, leaving a daughter of about two years of age. Prof. Crawford is a fine-looking specimen of manhood, rather tall and well-proportioned, erect, with a good-shaped head, high forehead, heavy beard and hair of auburn, prominent features and attractive face and engaging manners. He makes friends rapidly and rarely loses one. He is a pleasant speaker, and in any legislative body is listened to with interest whenever opportunity occurs. His reputation is beyond reproach, and he is esteemed very highly by those who know him best. 
Source - PEN PICTURES OF REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF OREGON by Frank E. Hodgkin and J. J. Galvin. Portland, Oregon; Farmer & Dairyman Publishing, Co. 1882. pg. 155-156.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
T. H. Crawford is Dead; Was Formerly Member of Willamette University Faculty
  Thomas H. Crawford, prominent in Oregon educational circles, and sor many years a member of the faculty of Willamette university, died Wednesday night st St Vincent hospital in Portland.  He was 75 years old.  Burial will be in Salem.
  Mr. Crawford was an Oregon pioneer.  He was born in Iowa in 1840 and crossed the plains, settling in this state in 1852.  At one time he was superintendent of schools in Portland.  Mr. Crawford was a member of Masonic lodge No. 15, I.O.O.F. ; Willamette lodge No. 2, A. F. and A. M.; the Al Kader Shrine, thje Knights Templar and the Oregon Pioneer association.  He is survived by a widow and a daughter, Mrs. Ruby Maxfield of New York.
  The body will arrive in Salem today at 1 o'clock over the Oregon Electric.  The funeral party will go directly to the Odd Fellows' cemetery, where interment will take place under the auspices of the Salem lodge of Odd Fellows. Services were held yesterday at Finley's chapel in Portland.
Oregon Statesman 1 June 1916, 1:4
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No marker
SOURCES: 
LR
OSBH DC (Multnomah County 1916) #1100
Rigdon records Vol. 7 #302
1870 OR CENSUS (Mult. Co., Portland, pg 243B) 
Hodgkin pg. 155-156
OS 1 June 1916, 1:4
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 587 SPACE: 2 NW LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.173' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.894'
 
 

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