John Heller Crawn
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Title
John Heller Crawn
Subject
Crawn, John Heller (1896-1920)
Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va.)
Military academies - Virginia - Woodstock
Military education - Virginia - Woodstock
Cadets - Virginia - Woodstock
Description
Portrait photograph of John Heller Crawn.
The image appeared in the 1917 Massanutten Academy yearbook "Aggelos."
Cadet Crawn was the son of Josiah F. and his second wife, Annie Roberta (Ward) Crawn. His mother died when he was a toddler. His father was a prominent miller at North River and a well-known citizen of Mt. Crawford, Rockingham County, Virginia.
He graduated from Massanutten Military Academy in 1917 and enlisted in the U.S. Marines in the summer of 1918. After training at Parris Island, South Carolina, he was sent overseas, arriving in France about a week before the Armistice was signed in November 1918. Private Crawn served with the 80th company of the 6th Marine Regiment in France and Germany. He was discharged in August 1919.
After his military service, he found work at an insurance agency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but was there only a few months before contracting an unusual “sleeping sickness” that put him in a coma for the last six weeks of his life.
His remains were returned to Mt. Crawford where he was buried.
The image appeared in the 1917 Massanutten Academy yearbook "Aggelos."
Cadet Crawn was the son of Josiah F. and his second wife, Annie Roberta (Ward) Crawn. His mother died when he was a toddler. His father was a prominent miller at North River and a well-known citizen of Mt. Crawford, Rockingham County, Virginia.
He graduated from Massanutten Military Academy in 1917 and enlisted in the U.S. Marines in the summer of 1918. After training at Parris Island, South Carolina, he was sent overseas, arriving in France about a week before the Armistice was signed in November 1918. Private Crawn served with the 80th company of the 6th Marine Regiment in France and Germany. He was discharged in August 1919.
After his military service, he found work at an insurance agency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but was there only a few months before contracting an unusual “sleeping sickness” that put him in a coma for the last six weeks of his life.
His remains were returned to Mt. Crawford where he was buried.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
ca. 1917
Labeled "Aug 1917" on box of plates.
Contributor
Identified in 2024 by library staff using the 1917 Massanutten Academy Yearbook "Aggelos."
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Relation
John Crawn appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 008695, 013698, 013699, 013865, 013967, 020104, 020107, and 023564.
Identifier
013865
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Glass Negative
Collection
Citation
Morrison Studio, “John Heller Crawn,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed March 16, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/43725.
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