Duncan Crawford

CRAWFORD, DUNCAN, teacher, farmer, merchant, justice of the peace, and railway appraiser; b. 1837 in Wood Islands, son of Neil Crawford and Mary Sinclair; m. 1864 Mary MacKenzie, and they had four children, Mary J., William, Maggie G., and Donald M.; Presbyterian; d. 1921. Crawford, a Conservative, was elected to the House of Assembly in a by-election held 21 October 1879 for 4th Queens. He was defeated in the general election of 1882. Crawford was educated at Central Academy in Charlottetown. He was a licensed teacher and taught at Wood Islands for 12 years. Besides working a farm of 100 acres, Crawford owned a general store. He served as a Justice of the Peace and, in 1871, as a railway appraiser. Duncan Crawford died in 1921. Crawford's parents both emigrated from Inverary, Argyleshire, Scotland, in 1823. Mary Crawford, of Flat River, was born in 1835 and died in 1919. She was the daughter of Donald MacKenzie of Flat River who had emigrated from Scotland.