"History of Wayne County, Indiana" by Andrew W. Young. pub 1872. City of Richmond pg 416 Daniel B. Crawford was born in Harford co., MD., Nov. 10, 1807, and at teh age of 7, removed with his mother's family to BAltimore; and thence he came, in 1835, to Wayne township, 2-1/2 miles north of Richmond. Although he settled on a new farm, and had some experience of life in the woods, his first dwelling was a frame house, somethin rarely seen in a forsest. In 1850, Mr. Crawford commenced the mercantile business in Richmond, in which he is still engaged. He was in 1849 elected a county commissioner, which office he has held, with the exception of 6 years, until the year 1870. He is a member of the Pearl Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and has a intervals been the superintendent of its Sabbath-school for more than twenty years. He was maried in Baltimore to Agnes Corrie. THey had 9 children: Daniel J., who married Mary, daughter of Frederick Hoover, an died on the farm, May 7, 1870. Elijah J.; died at 5. mary F., Wife ofJoseph C. Ratliff, and lives in Center township. John Y., who married Ella Mtichell, daughter of Thmas C. Mitchell, merchant, Fifth street. Sarah R., who married Frederick Cramer, of Ohio, now a merchant in Philadelphia. Charles W.; died at 5. Agnes S., who married James Williams, and resides on Fifth street, Richmond. Elizabeth A. W., who married J.O. Borrhies, merchant, Keokuk, Iowa. Robert; died in infancy.