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ant-colonel in a Virginia regiment that fought the French and Indians and later was colonel in the revolutionary army. Through another line of descent Dr. George G. Crawford traces to Jacob Rinker (a great-grandfather) who was a captain in the revolutionary army. The sword he carried was preserved in the possession of his de- scendants until 1840, when the burning of the family mansion destroyed the valued heirloom.

James Crawford moved late in life to the state of Ohio with his family, his son, a lad of seventeen years, not accompanying the family further than Shenandoah county, \'irginia. He located in Strasburg in that county on the north fork of the Shenandoah rjver at the base of Massanutton mountain, near where, in later years, the battle of Cedar Creek was fought between the Union force under Sheridan and the Confederates under Early, and later moved to Woodstock. There he married, reared a family and died. One of his sons, Robert W. Crawford, was first lieutenant under Fitzhugh Lee, of the Confederate army. Another son, Rev. Wil- liam A. Crawford, was a professor in Dela- ware College and pastor of the churches at Tairfax Court House and Kernstown, dying at the latter town.

Dr. James Jamison Crawford, son of David Jamison Crawford, was born at Woodstock, Virginia, October 19, 1835. He was a highly educated man, holding the de- gree of M. A. from Delaware College, the degree of M. D. from Jefiferson Medical College. Philadelphia, and was also a stu- dent at the University of Virginia and at the University of Alaryland. He practiced his profession nearly his entire life in Stras- burg. Shenandoah county, Virginia, where he was greatly beloved as a man and most implicitly trusted as a physician. He served in the Confederate army from first Manas- sas to Appomattox, attaining the rank of captain, and was wounded in battle. His first service was in Company A, Tenth Re- giment Virginia Infantry, of which he be- came captain. Later he served as assistant surgeon of the Thirteenth Virginia Regi- ment, was engaged in many of the hardest battles of the war and at its close only seven men were left of the original com- ])any. Dr. and Captain Crawford died in 1895. li's wife, Emma Gertrude (Setszer) Crawford, vet survives him. She was born

February 14. 185 1, daughter of Henry and Mary Rebecca (Borum) Setszer. After the war Dr. Crawford resumed medical prac- tice at Strasburg, was an elder of the Pres- byterian church, and one of the most in- fluential men of the town.

Dr. George Gilbert Crawford, son of Dr. James Jamison and Emma Gertrude (Sets- zer) Crawford, was born in Strasburg, Vir- ginia, March 27, 1876. His early education was obtained in public and private schools in Strasburg and "Greenwood School," Al- bemarle county, Virginia, two years being devoted to study in that institution. He then pursued the academic course at the University of Virginia for three years, then began professional study in the medical de- partment of the university. He was gradu- ated M. D., class of 1901, and for the next three and one-half years practiced in Faulk- land, Delaware, and was assistant physician and surgeon at Delaware Hospital, Wil- mington. In 1905 he established in private practice in \\'ilmington, Delaware, continu- mg there three years. In 1908 he returned to his native town, Strasburg, and began practice there among the people by whom the name "Doctor Crawford" is yet held in loving remembrance. Between the passing of the "old doctor" and the coming of the "young doctor" there was a lapse of thir- teen years but among the warmest friends of the "young Doctor Crawford" are the families in which "old Doctor Crawford" was for a quarter of a century the honored friend and trusted medical adviser.

Dr. Crawford is a member of the Shenan- doah Valley and Shenandoah County Medi- cal societies, and the Virginia State Medical Society, and American Medical Association, interested in their work and aiding to ex- tend their usefulness. He is decidedly liter- ary in his tastes and a lover of out-of-door sports. For his own entertainment and that of his friends, he often indulges his talents for political composition and one of his poems "A Rub of the Green" published in "Life" was much appreciated by the golf- ing readers of that periodical. He preserves and honors his father's military service by availing himself of the right it gives him to affiliate with the order of Sons of Con- federate \'eterans and is a member of Stover Camp.

Dr. Crawford married, June 10, 1903, Anne Preston \\'hite, born at .Seguin, Texas,