San Diego County Biographies
 
J. H. CRAWFORD

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One of the best farmers of Perris, was born near Norwich, Canada,  January 27, 
1860. His father, John B. Crawford, is a resident and orange grower of 
Riverside; his mother, Anna P. (Schooley) Crawford, was also born in Canada. 
They had six children. The subject of this sketch went to the public schools and 
finished at the Norman School in Dundass. In 1874 he came to California; he 
landed at Sacramento and went from there to San Francisco, where he staid two 
weeks and then bought a mule team and traveled all over Southern California for 
three months, finally arriving at San Diego, and from there he came to 
Riverside. His father bought there, in 1875, when it was only a little place, in 
Arington Settlement, a forty-acre ranch, and planted twenty. acres to oranges 
and the balance to apricots and alfalfa. Since, it is all oranges. Mr. J. H. 
Crawford left there in 1883, and bought forty acre:, at $25 per acre, in 
Elsinore, planted twenty acres to apricots, ten to alfalfa, and the balance was 
reserved for nursery. When land advanced he sold the twenty acres of trees for 
$750 per acre; for the remaining twenty acres he was offered $12,000, but did 
not accept. He took the money he received for his land and bought eighty acres 
of land three-quarters of a mile northeast of Perris. Mr. Crawford's regular 
business is that of fruit-growing. He moved to Perris in 1887, and built a good 
house and barns, planted grounds, and has one of the most home-like nice places 
in the whole valley. This is another of the many ranches on which there is no 
waste land. October 24, 1888, he was married to Miss Lucy A. Hume, a native of 
Carleton County, Province of Canada, daughter of John Hume, also a native of 
Canada. Mr. Crawford is a Presbyterian, and Mrs. Crawford belongs to the 
Congregational Church. They are both very worthy citizens of Perris.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  310