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Robert Baxter Crawford was born on April 14, 1895, in Buffalo Gap, in Augusta County. He was the son of Robert Lee Crawford and Sallie B. McClintic Crawford. He attended Augusta Military Academy before matriculating in 1914 at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (later Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), from which he received a two-year degree in agronomy. Crawford served as a second lieutenant during World War I and for about a year managed a 12,000-acre farm in Alabama. He returned to Virginia and worked as an agricultural agent in Clarke and Warren counties. On April 26, 1922, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Crawford married Regina Lauck Shaffer. They had three daughters and one son. ....