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- 1 2 p. 385 In: E.N. Dodge (ed.) Who's Who in Engineering, 9th Edition (1964). Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York.
- ↑ Thomas Stephen Crawford, 1918, Preston County, West Virginia, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
- ↑ Crawford T.S. (1931) A Study of the Cracking of the Vapors and of the Gas from the Low Temperature Carbonization of Coal. 36pp. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, New York.
- ↑ Obituary:Charlotte Sibert Grayson Crawford. Hartford Courant12 April 1997 web version
- ↑ "University of Rhode Island History and Timeline". University of Rhode Island. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
