City: Memphis
CRAWFORD, West J., publisher; born Madison Co. Miss., Nov. 1, 1844; Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of E. S. and E. A. (West) CRAWFORD; father’s occupation, merchant; paternal grandfather, Col. James CRAWFORD, veteran of war of 1812, paternal grandmother, Mary T. (Stribling) CRAWFORD; maternal grandparents, William and Elizabeth (Woodson) WEST; educated in Vicksburg, Miss., Madison College, Miss., and Western Military Institute, Nashville, Tenn.; in early life was in the cotton business; married Annie Louise THOMPSON, Nov. 11, 1874; member Tennessee, Country and Business Men’s Clubs; chairman Board of Registration, 1891-92; served as private Co. “A” 4th Tenn. Inf., Strahls brigade, Cheatham’s division Army of Tenn.; entered army 1861, paroled 1865; elected president of Memphis cotton Exchange in 1885; president of Commercial Publishing Co., 1889; director of Manhattan Savings Bank; Phoenix Fire Insurance Co., and president of Merchants Cotton Press and Storage Co., in 1908; former member of firm of W. B. Galbraith & Co., also former member Mallory-Crawford & Co.; Democrat; member of Episcopal church.
