Dick" Crawford was born in Missouri in 1880 and came to Montana with his parents at the age of three. His father died when Dick was young, and his mother remarried when by the time he was 9 years old. Dick can be found in 1907 in Chouteau County when he marries Mabel McCelland in Chinook. From September 1913 through March 1914, Dick drove the Warrick Stage. In 1914 the Crawford family, with two young daughters, moves back to Fort Benton, where Dick starts a job as a deputy sheriff under Sheriff Rodgers. Mr Crawford won the election to become Sheriff in 1916 and began his service on the Militar...
