Cleveland, past and present; its representative men: . ii. ii^* Sfe^> ^i:,*^ ^^^ :^^ >^-^-^L- Z: VI* •^., ^^^?^V^^ ^^ , N / -A-> S. J^Vv^ ,^N^. ITS REPRESENTATIVE^ MEN. Z>1 LEMUEL CRAWFORD. The subject of this sketch belonged to the business chisses, asdistinguished from the professional, but which are none the lessfruitful in characters of prominence and public interest. Indeed it has come to pass in later years that what are communlyknown as the learned professions, law, medicine and theolog}, thoughstill high in rank, liave lost something of the ruling pre-eminencethey occupied

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Cleveland, past and present; its representative men: . ii. ii^* Sfe^> ^i:,*^ ^^^ :^^ >^-^-^L- Z: VI* •^., ^^^?^V^^ ^^ , N / -A-> S. J^Vv^ ,^N^. ITS REPRESENTATIVE^ MEN. Z>1 LEMUEL CRAWFORD. The subject of this sketch belonged to the business chisses, asdistinguished from the professional, but which are none the lessfruitful in characters of prominence and public interest. Indeed it has come to pass in later years that what are communlyknown as the learned professions, law, medicine and theolog}, thoughstill high in rank, liave lost something of the ruling pre-eminencethey occupied in our earlier history. Other departments in theworlds industry have asserted themselves, and railway systems,telegraphs, commerce, journalism, manufactures, banking, and otherbranches, have come forward and absorbed their fair proi)ortion ofthe best talent and ambition of the country. Lemuel Crawford w^as born in Florida, Schoharie count}^. New York,December 15,1S05. Left without means, at the age of fourteen he chose the trade ofmoulder in the

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