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116 HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. rived the following September. Soon after his arrival in Salt Lake City he was married November 25, 1851, to Catherine, daughter of William and Catherine (Cooper) Thompson, who was also a native of Scotland. Mr. Crawford lived in Salt. Lake City and Kaysville till 1857, when he came to Manti. The following spring he moved to the town of Moroni, and his family were one of the first to settle in the new town. He took up land and engaged in farming till 1865, when he was called to help strengthen the settlements in the Sevier valley, and he moved to what is now Monroe. He built a house and put in a crop, but the Indians were very troublesome at that time, and he did not harvest it, being compelled to move to Manti, where he has since resided. He lives on the Main street a little south of the center of the town, and has a nice little farm of 25 acres near town. For many years he was president of the Manti Co-op. Sheep-Herding Institution, is a stockholder in the Co-op. store and also in the Central Utah Wool Company. In church matters he has always taken an active part, for some years he was superintendent of the Sunday school, and after the organization of the Sanpete stake lie was for many years one of the bishop's counsellors, ami while in Moroni was counsellor to Bishop Bradley several years. To Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Mere born the following children, all residents of Manti: James, William C, Jedediah G., David and Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Munk. September 13, 1892, Mr. Crawford had the msifortune to lose Ids beloved wife. Mr. Crawford comes from a good old Scotch family, and is a man of sterling integrity and highly esteemed and respected by the people of Manti. /J)IIAWFOBD, JAMES, JR., is a wool-grower and one of the directors in the Manti City Savings Bank. Is V^ a son of James and Catherine Crawford, and born in Kaysville, dali, August 28, 1853. His parents were na- tives of Scotland and came to this country in 1848, and settled in Utah in 1851. sketch of James Crawford, A appears on another page. The family came to Manti in 1857, but. the following spring moved to Moroni, after a residence there of about eight years they joined a colSi\,