Crawford, John G
lawyer, orator, legislator, was born April 21, 1834, in Oakham, Mass. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the second regiment of the Michigan cavalry and became a sergeant-major and colonel. On his return from the war he was elected a member of the Michigan state senate.
Since then he has held numerous important elective and appointive offices, a and was a consul in Canada during President Garfield's administration. As platform speaker, Col. Crawford has no equal, and has been a speaker in every political campaign since 1856. He has resided in New Hampshire most of the time since 1870. He knew John Brown personally, and escaped lynching more than once during the bleeding Kansas troubles in 1855-56, in which he was a prominent factor.