Crawford, Peter

Crawford, Peter a Baptist minister, was born in Virginia in 1809. He began to preach about 1831; studied in what is now Richmond College, Virginia; in 1835 established a school, which became the Judson Female Institute, at Marion, Alabama; for some time taught in Central Female College, Mississippi, and from 1866 to 1871 was president of a female college at Keachi, De Soto Parish, Louisiana. He died April 25, 1873. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. page 291. (J.C.S.)