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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [423-424]

           FRANCIS CRAWFORD, There is, perhaps, no portion of this great
        and enterprising nation that has been more rapidly, and at same
        time substantially, developed than that included within the
        boundaries of Michigan. The enterprise and business capacity of the
        people of the Eastern States has been one of the chief motive
        powers observed in the onward march of the people of this State.
        Within the borders of the State there has been no greater enter-
        prise manifested than on the Huron Peninsula. All around the coast,
        towns have been started and large plans for the development of the
        country manifested. Men of large ideas and rare business ability
        and sagacity located at these different points on the shore and
        began their work of opening up and developing the peninsula. In
        this work we have very largely detailed the labor of these men and,
        in their different biographical sketches, given the life history of
        the men themselves.
           Among the men above referred to, and one who has perhaps done as
        much as any of them toward developing Huron County, is MR. FRANCIS
        CRAWFORD. A gentleman possessing far more than the average capacity
        for business and with commendable enterprise, he came to Caseville,
        and has since been the very life and soul of the place. As early as
        1856, and while a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, in company with MR.
        GEORGE MARTIN, he purchased MR. LEONARD CASES property here. This
        was a very large estate, consisting of some 20,000 acres of land.
        Two years later, 1858, MR. CRAWFORD bought MR. MARTIN'S interest
        and moved to Caseville, where he has since resided, and has either
        been the prime mover of, or otherwise prominently identified with,
        every enterprise or movement for the benefit of the place that has
        been started. He owns all the salt wells and blocks now at Case-
        ville. Besides these large interests, he also manufactures lumber,
        shingles, lath and salt barrels, the latter for his own use. He
        also owns a grist-mill, a general supply store and a hardware
        store.
           Among those of whom we give portraits in this work, there is
        none more worthy a place among the leading men of the county than
        MR. FRANCIS CRAWFORD, and we therefore take pleasure in presenting
        his portrait in connection with this sketch.

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