Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co. GEORGE M. CRAWFORD was born in Louisville, February 10, 1856, and is a son of Robert I. and Margaret (Craig) Crawford, natives of Virginia. The former came to Louisville in 1845, and engaged in the wholesale dry goods business. He is now bookkeeper and cashier of Falls City Tobacco Warehouse, Louisville. He was born October 12, 1821, and has four sons living, viz: Alexander W., Presbyterian minister and pastor of a church at Campbellsville, Ky.; Newton G., manager of the Phoenix Storage Co.; Brown C., book-keeper at Glover & Durrett's tobacco warehouse, and George M. George M. Crawford was educated in the public schools of Louisville, and afterward entered the hardware store of Hart & Co., as book-keeper and cashier, where he remained for over four years. Then for five years he was with the Kentucky Flour Company; then became president of the Tobacco Transfer Co., which he organized in 1885, and is still operating. He has been a director in the Westview Building Company for three years, and is at present secretary and treasurer, and general manager of the same. He was married in August, 1883, to Miss Abbie N. Tate, of lexington, Mo. They have one child--Magnus Tate. Crawford Craig Tate = MO VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/crawford.gm.txt