The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 179 

MRS. LOWA M. CRAWFORD.

The educational affairs of Benton county and its school system are in the able
hands of Mrs. Lowa M. Crawford, county school superintendent. She was born in
Missouri and is a daughter of Dr. L. W. and Mary R. (Gill) Miller. The father,
who had quite a reputation as a physician in his neighborhood, has now passed
away but is survived by his widow, who makes her home in Creston, Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. Crawford spent the first half of their married life in Missouri,
but in 1905 decided to move westward and came to Prosser, Washington, where he
is now engaged in the music business, having built up a profitable
establishment, from which he derives a gratifying income. He is a musician
whose knowledge of things musical makes him an authority in that line so that he
is not only well fitted to sell and handle musical instruments but is able to
advise his customers and to select for them and guide them in their purchases.
Mrs. Crawford was a school teacher in the Prosser schools for about six years
and for two years taught in the county schools. She was elected to the office of
superintendent in September, 1917, and has served ever since. She possesses
talent for organizing and has brought about a co-operation among the teachers
that has resulted greatly to the benefit of the pupils. Moreover, she has
introduced a number of new systems in regard to the improvement of the schools
and their equipment and has in many other ways promoted the cause of education
in Benton county. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford have a daughter, Lucille, who is now six
years of age. Both are highly esteemed members of the social set of their city,
in the intellectual gatherings of which they play an important part.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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