The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . haracteristics that allsuccessful men possess,tlie personal endow-ments that make cir-cumstances their crea-tures instead of theirbeing creatures of cir-cumstances. R. W. Crawford hasbeen in Streator fiveyears. He came herewith less ready caslithan fifty acres of landin the vicinity of thecity would sell ior to-day, and yet, withi
The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . haracteristics that allsuccessful men possess,tlie personal endow-ments that make cir-cumstances their crea-tures instead of theirbeing creatures of cir-cumstances. R. W. Crawford hasbeen in Streator fiveyears. He came herewith less ready caslithan fifty acres of landin the vicinity of thecity would sell ior to-day, and yet, withinthat short time andwith that limited capi-tal, backed by a hvj,purpose and disciplinedcapability, he has de-veloped a business anderected a plant which ahalf million dollarswould not tempt liim to part with. Mr. Crawford was born in Scotland in1865, where he remained until twenty years ofage, when he came to America and located inWestern Texas. At twenty, he caught the fe-ver of western migration and for the next threeyears made his home in National City, and SanDiego, California. Here he became the assist-ant of the noted engineer, J. C. Schuyler, whosework lay in building dams across rivers, layingpipe lines and in locating and erecting irriga-tion R. W. Crawford returned to his old home in Scotland and en-gaged his old master as an instnictor in civiland mechanical engineering and the highermathematics, and upon returning to Amer-ica he associated himself with the AmericanLocomotive Comiiany, a big manufacturingconcern at Richmond, Virginia, where he gain-ed a ])ractical and closer acquaintance witli hischosen calling, and in addition acquired aknowledge of executive work. After a length-ened service with this company he went to[Montreal, Canada, where he pursued afresh his academic studies, afterwhicli he went to north-west Canada in anexecutive position witha big railroad com-jiany. It was while in theNorthwest that he con-ceived the idea of car-building and car
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