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The Book of Prominent Pennsylvanians; a standard reference.
Pittsburgh, Leader Publ., 1913.
Pg. 89
GEORGE WILLIAM CRAWFORD (picture of him)
GEORGE WILLIAM CRAWFORD, banker and booster for Pittsburgh, is another living testimony that in the early days of the Iron City the reputation of this region worked as a magnet and drew to its swelling population people from all over the country and the world. MR. CRAWFORD’S parents, ANDREW ISAAC CRAWFORD and MARTHA J. E. CRAWFORD, lived in the quiet town of Kewanee, Ill., where, Jan. 10, 1856, where their son was born. Shortly thereafter they were attracted to Pittsburgh, where the boy was placed in the old Mansfield academy, located in what was then known as Mansfield, and which was subsequently changed in name to Carnegie. After finishing his education at the Mansfield academy he entered Duff’s College, in Pittsburgh, where he graduated in his 19th year. His first position therefore was given to him in 1874 when he entered the Diamond National Bank as a clerk. He remained there 28 years, being rewarded for his hard work by obtaining the position of cashier and director not long before he left that institution.
In 1902 he left the Diamond National Bank. For the past ten years, he has served as a director in the Peoples Savings Bank and the Peoples National Bank and the Safe Deposit & Trust Co. of Pittsburgh. He was in great demand as a director, and to this day he is serving in that capacity for a number of institutions both in Pittsburgh and Boston.
In addition to holding the presidency of the Peoples Natural Gas & Pipeage Co. of Pittsburgh, he is a director in the following corporations: The Allegheny Heating Co., The Crucible Steel Co. of America, the Humbolt Fire Insurance Co., the Safe Deposit and Trust Co., the Peoples National Bank and the Peoples Savings Bank, all of Pittsburgh, and the Columbian National Life Insurance Co. of Boston.
MR. CRAWFORD is a fellow-member of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association.
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