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CRAWFORD, James Thomas,\u00a0 <\/strong>accountant and real estate broker; born Washington, Rhea Co., Tenn., Nov. 25, 1869;\u00a0 Scotch-Irish descent; son of H. A.<\/strong> and Ann N. (Gillespie) CRAWFORD<\/strong>; father was a merchant and farmer; paternal grandparents Capt. John<\/strong> and Martha (Griffith) CRAWFORD<\/strong>; maternal grandparents Robert N.<\/strong> and Hannah (Lenty) GILLISPIE<\/strong>; educated in the local schools and University of Tenn.; began life as a bookkeeper for the Dayton Coal and Iron Co.; later engaged in the drug business (about 1898-1910) as member of firm of Crawford and Robinson; was elected County Trustee Rhea Co. in 1904, served three terms, declining nomination in 1910; president of Hamilton Development Co., of Chattanooga (Tenn.); stockholder in Mission Heights Development Co., Chattanooga (Tenn.); engaged in\u00a0 real estate business Dayton (Tenn.); married Susan H. AYRES<\/strong> Oct. 2, 1902; member of Cumberland Presbyterian church, Free Masons, Knights of Pythias; Democrat; was coal oil inspector four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Dayton CRAWFORD, James Thomas,\u00a0 accountant and real estate broker; born Washington, Rhea Co., Tenn., Nov. 25, 1869;\u00a0 Scotch-Irish descent; son of H. A. and Ann N. (Gillespie) CRAWFORD; father was a merchant and farmer; paternal grandparents Capt. John and Martha (Griffith) CRAWFORD; maternal grandparents Robert N. and Hannah (Lenty) GILLISPIE; educated in the local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,4407,418,4419],"tags":[934,935,779,936],"class_list":{"0":"post-1856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rhea","7":"category-surname-c","8":"category-university-of-tennessee","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-ayres","11":"tag-gillispie","12":"tag-griffith","13":"tag-lenty","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14935,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/14935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}