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1620. His mother was Louisa Twichell, a native of Massachusetts and daughter of Peter Twichell. She died in 1888. When D. Edgar Converse was but three years old he was deprived by death of a father's care and was reared and educated chiefly in Canada at the home of an uncle, where he remained until he had reached the age of twenty-one. This uncle was, like his father, a woolen manufacturer, and it was from him that the young man received his first lessons in this business, in which he was de52; and in 1870 to E. M. Williams, by whom he has four children. William J. Crawford, one of the leading planters of Fairfield county, S. C., was born at Winnsboro, in 1839, the son of Thomas and Isabella (Bryson) Crawford. His father came to Canada from Ireland, where he remained for six years following the occupation of a stonecutter. After moving to South Carolina, he opened a stone quarry at Winnsboro, where he carried on an extensive business. The foundations of most of the earlier ho