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Title: West Virginia and its people
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Thomas Condit, 1848- Maxwell, Hu, joint author
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Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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st Shore railroad terminal at Weehaw-ken. New Jersey. Afterward he assisted in the building of the New Cro-ton aqueduct for New York City. He also assisted in building theClinch valley extension of the Norfolk & Western railroad, in southwes-tern Virginia, and had charge of the extensions of the same railroadacross the southern end of West Virginia. For seventeen years Mr.Hall has now been with the corps of engineers assisting under the wardepartment in river improvements and in other works. For two andone-half years of this time, beginning just before the war with Spain, hewas building fortifications at New Bedford, Massachusetts, being per-haps the first civil engineer transferred to the coast on account of thewar. His work on river improvements has been in Kentucky and WestVirginia, building and maintaining locks and dams in the Ohio river andits tributaries. For about ten years, he has been stationed at Parkers-burg, West Virginia, in connection with this work, having especial
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^^^^^ec^^4 WMA^^^^l-r- WEST VIRGLMA 463 charge of the Ohio and Little Kanawha, and he has made this city hishome. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He married, June 9, 1886, Jean Agnew, daughter of Rev. John Agnewand Susan Munro (Gilbert) Crawford, who died October 24, 1908. Herfather was a Presbyterian minister at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, sonof Samuel Wylie Crawford, a professor at the University of Pennsyl-vania, and he was son of Nathan Crawford, born in Scotland, a Presby-terian minister in South Carolina. Rev. John Agnew Crawford wasmaternally descended from the Agnews, a Huguenot family, which wentfrom France to England, came to New York before the revolution, own-ing land near Wall and Broad streets in New York City; the family iswell known in New York City to the present day. Children of WilliamMcLaurine and Jean Agnew (Crawford) Hall: Eleanor Swann, AllanCrawford, William McLaurine. Susan Munro (Gilbert) Crawford had two interesting lines of an-ces

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