{"id":6706,"date":"2013-06-20T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6706"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:25:05","slug":"crawford-west-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/crawford-west-j\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAWFORD, West J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><b>CRAWFORD, West J., <\/b>publisher; born Madison Co. Miss., Nov. 1, 1844; Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of <b>E. S. and E. A. (West) CRAWFORD;<\/b> father\u2019s occupation, merchant; paternal grandfather, <b>Col. James CRAWFORD<\/b>, veteran of war of 1812, paternal grandmother, <b>Mary T. (Stribling) CRAWFORD<\/b>; maternal grandparents, <b>William<\/b> and <b>Elizabeth (Woodson) WEST<\/b>; educated in Vicksburg, Miss., Madison College, Miss., and Western Military Institute, Nashville, Tenn.; in early life was in the cotton business; married <b>Annie Louise THOMPSON<\/b>, Nov. 11, 1874; member Tennessee, Country and Business Men\u2019s Clubs; chairman Board of Registration, 1891-92; served as private Co. \u201cA\u201d 4<sup>th<\/sup> Tenn. Inf., Strahls brigade, Cheatham\u2019s 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\u00a0 Press and Storage Co., in 1908; former member of firm of W. B. Galbraith &amp; Co., also former member Mallory-Crawford &amp; Co.; Democrat; member of Episcopal church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s 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, [&hellip;]<\/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":[261,4407,4419],"tags":[933,1099,255,502,1189],"class_list":{"0":"post-6706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-c","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-crawford","10":"tag-stribling","11":"tag-thompson","12":"tag-west","13":"tag-woodson","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706","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=6706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8946,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}