Researching John Crawford

Born in 1817 in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, Ireland, the son of George Crawford, John Crawford came to Upper Canada as a child when his family settled in Brockville. He married Helen Sherwood of York, Upper Canada (Toronto). A lawyer by profession, Crawford served as president of the Royal Canadian Bank and was solicitor for the Grand Trunk Railway. In 1867, he was appointed Queen's Counsel. He also became president of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway in 1868 and also served as a director of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway.

Crawford was member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for East Toronto from 1861 to 1863. He then served as a House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1873, and supported representation by population. On the day his government resigned in 1873, The Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald appointed Crawford Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

In the months leading to his death, Crawford's health was poor. following several months of ill health. He died on 13 May 1875 at Government House, his official residence. His funeral service was conducted at St. James Cathedral with interment at a vault belonging to his wife's family.

The three soon formed a band named The Toys with vocalist Ty Cobb at the helm. Crawford, Cobb and the others were influenced by then-current punk rockers like the Sex Pistols along with Synthpop band Ultravox, though Crawford has cited KISS as an early influence as well.

After a name change to Berlin, the band stayed together for about three years and was finally let go, Cobb was out and a string of vocalists ensued. In 1980 Berlin released the EP Information on Zone H. Records with Virginia Macolino fronting the group. The band signed to I.R.S. Records briefly in 1980, releasing the single "A Matter of Time", before suddenly disbanding in 1981.

The quality of his work is evident from the carved heads on Alexander's School (later St Kentigern's Annex) in Duke Street Glasgow. Other work has been demolished or lost, though the armorial set on the Bank of Scotland in Carlton Place still exists.

His son John M. Crawford (1854 - ) became an architect, designing among others, Dennistoun Baptist Church in Craigpark Drive (1907)

Born in Kintail, Huron County, Ontario, the son of James Crawford and Catherine McGregor, Crawford received his education in the Port Albert public school, and after spending six years in a flour mill in Port Albert moved to Gladstone, Manitoba. In 1876, he took up land in Neepawa district and carried on an implement business also, until 1883, when he removed to the town and conducted the implement, lumber and grain business until August 1890 when he opened a general store.

He was elected to Council in 1884, and was, for some years, Reeve of the Rural Municipality of Rosedale. At the time of the outbreak of the North-West Rebellion, he raised a company of volunteers, which was attached to the 95th Battalion, and was gazetted as captain. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as the Liberal candidate for Beautiful Plains in 1886 and 1888, but was defeated by John Andrew Davidson in 1892. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for Portage la Prairie in the 1904 federal election. A Liberal, he was defeated in 1908 losing to future Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen.

Crawford was a Presbyterian and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Matilda Hayden in 1881.

He was born in Hampton, New Brunswick, the son of George Crawford and Eliza Sederquest, and educated in Saint John. He studied law with George Otty, was called to the bar in 1868 and set up practice in Saint John. Crawford was named to the Executive Council in 1872 and became solicitor general in 1879. He also served as a lieutenant in the local militia.

Crawford was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to William Crawford and Mary Sampson. When his mother died in 1810, his father and family moved to Chester, Vermont. Crawford himself moved to St. Lawrence County, New York, where he worked for local farmers. Soon after he worked rafting spars in Quebec.

At the outbreak of the War of 1812, Crawford went to Waddington, New York to join the New York militia. He married Mary Ann Kittenhouse in 1814. In 1834, President Andrew Jackson appointed him inspector of revenue for the Oswegatchie district, headquartered in Waddington.

Crawford journeyed west in 1836, first moving to Michigan City, Indiana. While there, he purchased a steamer named Detroit on behalf of a steamship company. He then ran the steamer on trips between Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Chicago, and Michigan City. When the Detroit wrecked off the coast of Kenosha, Byron Kilbourn hired Crawford to run a steamer in the Milwaukee harbor, the Badger. Soon after, Crawford settled in the town of Wauwatosa.

Once settled in Milwaukee County, Crawford became involved in local civic life. He took the 1840 Census in Wauwatosa, and was elected County Coroner in 1841. Crawford was elected to the territorial legislature in 1845 and represented Milwaukee County at the 1846 Wisconsin Constitutional Convention. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1854. In 1866 he was a Milwaukee County supervisor. Towards the end of his life, he was given the honor of placing the cornerstone of the new Milwaukee County Courthouse, at present-day Cathedral Square Park, in 1873. He died in 1881.

During a long career at Intel starting in 1977, he was the chief architect of the Intel 80386 and Intel 80486 microprocessors. He also co-managed the design of the Intel P5 Pentium microprocessor family. Crawford was the recipient of the 1995 Eckert–Mauchly Award. He was awarded the IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition in 1997.

Crawford was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for the architectural design of widely used microprocessors.

He retired from Intel in 2013.

In 2014, he was made a fellow of the Computer History Museum for his work on industry-standard microprocessor architectures.

John McKinnon Crawford was born on 11 April 1931 at Hamilton, South Lanarkshire where his father, Alexander, was Town Officer. His mother, Mary McKinnon, was an amateur artist. A pupil of Hamilton Academy, Crawford continued his studies at Glasgow School of Art, where he was a prominent member of the Glasgow School of Art Students' Association, and one of his lecturers being Mary Armour, another former pupil of Hamilton Academy.

Following national service, and further study at St Martins, London, Crawford taught, as Principal in art and design, at Campbeltown Grammar School, thereafter being appointed in 1966, at 35, to the post of principal advisor on art and design for the Scottish Highlands, and eventually settling in the village of Strathpeffer.

A painter in the Scottish Colourists tradition, Crawford exhibited widely, including at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

John McKinnon Crawford DA died aged 73 on 20 March 2005 at Lossiemouth, survived by his wife Morag, and daughters Shuna, Cara (also an artist) and Rona.

An internationally recognized researcher in theoretical physics, he specialized in plasma physics and nonlinear dynamics.His broad physical insight and deep knowledge of mathematics enabled him to make profound contributions in dynamical systems.He published more than 80 research papers and wrote a landmark review on bifurcation theory. Additionally, he was also a codirector of the "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" program, which exposed undergraduates to scientific study, in 1997.

Apart from his research, he was a passionate mountain climber. He died on August 23, 1998 at the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh of Burkitt's lymphoma, a form of lymph cancer.

In 2001, SIAM's Activity Group in Dynamical Systems established the J.D. Crawford Prize, which is now the world's topaward in dynamical systems.

In 1796 he went to Baltimore. Here he helped forward the founding of the Baltimore General Dispensary, 1801; the penitentiary, 1802; the Bible Society, and the Baltimore Library. He delivered courses on natural history at the College of Medicine in 1811 and 1812, and his introductory lecture on “The Cause, Seat and Cure of Diseases” is extant. He held high rank in his profession, being censor, examiner, orator, and member of the committee to publish the Transactions of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, and consulting physician to the Board of Health and City Hospital. He was among the first in America to use vaccine virus, which he did in the summer of 1800, a date contemporaneous with that of its use by Dr. Waterhouse, of Massachusetts, who has been given the credit of its first use in the Western Hemisphere. He wrote many medical articles of great interest and value in the medical journals of the day.

What most rivets attention on John Crawford is his remarkable research into the cause of disease. As early as 1790 he conceived— entirely independently—the idea of a living contagium—minute animalcula gaining access to the human body and there depositing germs to develop and produce disease. He ransacked the whole realm of nature and brought together a great mass of evidence to prove this theory which he maintained, notwithstanding its unpopularity and prejudice to his professional success, with all the ardor of absolute conviction. He pointed out that man, not withstanding his superior nature and possession of a soul, was subjected to the same laws as the lower animals. He enunciated the doctrine of universal parasitism. He argued convincingly from the known to the unknown, and declared prophetically that while the minute animalcula could not then be demonstrated, they are not beyond the reach of human ken and in due time would be recognized. He compares the action of the seeds of disease to the vegetable seeds—each of which gives rise to its respective plant, and to that only. He not only held these views, but displayed his consistency by carrying them out to their legitimate conclusion—he applied them to the prevention and treatment of disease. The bigotry and prejudices of his contemporaries compelled him to publish his opinion in a non medical periodical, The Baltimore Observer, in which they appeared in 1806 and 1807 under the heading “Quarantine.” We may conclude that John Crawford made an independent discovery of this theory, and so far as is known to me he is the first in all history who investigated it in a thorough and scientific manner.

John Crawford died in Baltimore on May 9, 1813, after a short illness and was buried in Westminster churchyard. He was survived by one daughter, who married Maximilian Godefrey, an eminent French architect of Baltimore with whom she returned to France. Dr. Crawford's library is preserved in the University of Maryland. His articles are to be found in the American Medical Repository, the Baltimore Observer, and the Medical and Physical Recorder, Baltimore; in Schultz's History of Freemasonry in Maryland, vol. ii, 1885, and in Cordell's Medical Annals of Maryland. There is a crayon portrait and an MS. work on Tropical Diseases in the library of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.

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