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S. G. CRAWFORD, M. D., who is successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Sedalia, Mo., is a physician of prominence, one whose skill and ability have won him a foremost place in the ranks of the medical fraternity. He was born in Hartford, Ohio County, Ky., July 27, 1842, and is a son of Hugh C. Crawford, who was born in Bardstown, Ky. The grandfather, Hugh Crawford, was a native of Virginia, and was of English and Scotch descent. He served in the Revolutionary War, and was with Washington during the ever memorable winter at Valley Forge. In the Old Dominion he was married, in 1788, to Jane Gray, and soon afterward removed to Kentucky, becoming one of the first settlers of the state. He located at Bardstown, Nelson County, on Wilson Creek, and aided in the erection of the first court house in the state. Subsequently he removed to Ohio County, where he died in 1848, at the age of eighty-two years. He was an old-school Presbyterian.

The Doctor’s father was reared on the old home farm, and in 1828 married Rebecca Foreman, who was born in Nelson County, as was her father, Thomas Foreman. Her grandfather, Abraham Foreman, was born in Madison County, Va., and in that state was married. He, too, was one of the heroes of the Revolution and later, traveling over the mountains, became one of the pioneer settlers of Kentucky. He kept a hotel and stage station on the turnpike, was the owner of three mills, four farms, many slaves, and was a very successful man. Thomas Foreman was a soldier in the War of 1812, and served as Lieutenant at the battle of New Orleans. He engaged extensively in milling and farming, and died in Kentucky at the age of sixty-two. The Foreman family was of English lineage. In 1833 Hugh C. Crawford removed with his family to Hartford, Ohio County, where he carried on farming on an extensive scale and also built and operated a distillery on Hall’s Creek. On the loth of March, 1850, he removed to Grayson County, where he carried on agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred in 1875, at the age of sixty-five years, five months and twenty-nine days. In politics he was a Democrat, and in his younger years was Captain of the State Militia. His wife died May 15, 1880, at the age of sixty-five years and six months.

The Doctor was the eighth in order of birth in a family of four sons and five daughters, of whom two sons and three daughters are yet living. He attended the public schools of Hartford and spent the greater part of his childhood and youth upon the farm. With the blood of Revolutionary fore-fathers flowing in his veins, it is not strange that the young man of nineteen, on the breaking out of the Civil War, was roused by a spirit of patriotism and enlisted in the service, becoming a member of Company C, Forty-fifth Kentucky State Militia, of which he was elected Second Lieutenant. He soon after volunteered in the regular service, and July 22, 1863, was made United States Marshal of Leitchfield, Grayson County, and stationed at Camp Calloway, with the rank of Captain. On the 9th of November, 1863, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-fifth Kentucky State Militia by Governor Thomas E. Bramlette, and remained at that camp until the spring of 1864, when he was sent to Louisville, where he continued until the close of the war, at which time he was mustered out.

During the succeeding year Dr. Crawford engaged in merchandising in Ohio County, and then returned to the old homestead, where he carried on farming and also bought and shipped tobacco. He was also interested in the lumber business until 1872, when he took up the study of medicine, to which his tastes had always inclined. He had read medicine to some extent in his youth, but later entered the medical department of the College of Kentucky at Louisville. Subsequently he engaged in practice for a time, but later again returned to college, and finally opened an office in Hardin, Ky. In 1879 he resumed his studies in the Kentucky Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1880 with the degree of M. D., at the same time graduating in chemistry. Locating in Russellville, Mo., he there practiced for four months, after which he removed to Syracuse, Morgan County, this state, where he continued for two years. In 1884 he located in Smithton, where he practiced until July 2, 1888, the date of his arrival in Sedalia.

The Doctor was married in Grayson County, Ky., in 1862, to Miss Sultana Stinson, a native of that state, and a daughter of Col. William Stinson, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, and removed from South Carolina to Kentucky, where he was extensively engaged in farming. The Doctor and Mrs. Crawford have three children: Mrs. Mary R. Carpenter, of Syracuse, Mo.; Alice and Ada, at home.

The Doctor, takes considerable interest in civic societies, belonging to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of the Maccabees, Woodmen of the World, Select Knights of Ohio, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and was a member of the Independent Order of Good Templars while living in his native state. He has filled various offices in these organizations, being an honored and esteemed member. In politics he is a Republican, and his duties of citizenship are discharged with the same loyalty which he manifested when he gave his services for the cause of the Union. In connection with his profession he belongs to the Kentucky Alumni Association and the Missouri State Pharmaceutical Association.