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Title: History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution Vol. 4 / By George Thornton Fleming.
Author: Fleming, George Thornton, 1855-1928.
Pg. 216, 217
DAVID F. CRAWFORD - With his entire active career spent in railroading, MR. CRAWFORD, former general manager of the Pa. Lines West, in 1918 transferred his activity to another branch of the same calling, and since that date has been vice-president of the Locomotive Stoker Co. From young manhood he has occupied executive positions, but his technical and mechanical talent has found its outlet in numerous inventions for railway use, prominent among them the CRAWFORD Underfeed Stoker.
The American ancestor of this branch of the old LINDSAY Clan was DAVID CRAWFORD, who came from near Alloway Kirk, Scotland, and made his home in Blair Co., Pa., where his son, DAVID, father of DAVID F. CRAWFORD, was born. DAVID (2) CRAWFORD married MARTHA FRANCES LIGHTNER, daughter of JOHN LIGHTNER, who first located in New York, moved from there to Lancaster, Pa., later to Pittsburgh, and died about 1874, age 81 years.
DAVID F. CRAWFORD, son of DAVID and MARTHA FRANCES (LIGHTNER) CRAWFORD, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 4, 1864. After attending public and private schools in his birthplace, he completed his scholastic studies in the Pa. Military Academy. His business career was begun in July, 1882, in the freight department of the Pa. Railroad, and in Dec. 1885, he was transferred to the Altoona shops as a machinist apprentice. In 1889 he was made inspector in the test department, a place he filled until February 1892 when he became an assistant master mechanic in the Fort Wayne shops of the Pa. Lines West. From July 1, 1895, to Nov. 1, 1899, MR. CRAWFORD was assistant to the superintendent of motive power of the Pa. Lines West, subsequently becoming superintendent of motive power of the Northwest system of the Pa. Railroad. On Aug. 1, 1903, he was made general superintendent of motive of Pa. Lines West, of Pittsburgh, and on Jan. 1, 1917, he succeeded to the general manager-ship of the Pa. Lines West.
MR. CRAWFORD concluded a thirty-five years connection with the Pa. Railroad by resignation on June 15, 1918, to become vice-president of the Locomotive Stoker Co., his present office. Since 1903 he has devoted a large share of his time to his inventions and mechanical matters, and has patented a number of devises for railway cars and signals. In 1910 he was a delegate to the International Railway Congress in Berne, Switzerland, and reported on the use of steel in the manufacture of locomotives and cars. He is a director of the mechanical engineering course at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 1915 received the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from the University of Kentucky. MR. CRAWFORD is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, a member of the Master Mechanics’ Association, serving on a number of committees and in 1913 as president, a member of the Master Carbuilders’ Association, serving on numerous committees and in 1915 as president, and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Railway Engineering Association, American Association for Testing Materials, Illuminating Engineers’ Society, Society for the Promotion of Engineers’ Education, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Franklin Institute, Engineers’ Society of Western Pa., New York Railway Club, Pittsburgh Railway club, Western Railway Club, American Railway Guild, Scotch-Irish Society of Philadelphia, the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh, Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh Country Club, Pittsburgh Traffic Club, Pittsburgh Automotive Club, Oakmont Country Club, Army and Navy Club of Pittsburgh, Engineers’ Club, of New York, Metropolitan Club, of Washington, D. C., the Pittsburgh Athletic Association, and a life member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Western Pa. He is also vice-president of the board of trustees of the Homeopathic Hospital of Pittsburgh. He is numbered among Pittsburgh’s sons who have brought her distinction in essential fields.
MR. CRAWFORD married, in Altoona, Pa., Feb. 14, 1893, HELEN MOORE, daughter of DELANO R. and EMMA (PATTON) MOORE, of Altoona.
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