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This section of the City
of Crisfield website will be written by the youth of Crisfield
about particularly significant people who were born or lived in or
around the Crisfield area.
Currently we are
gathering the profiles. For the time being, please note the
following short biographies of Famous Native Crisfielders.
Harry Clifton (Curley) Byrd - President of
the University of Maryland, born in Crisfield - often referred to as
the "Father of the University of Maryland."
Lt. General Jefferson Fields - Commanding
General of Camp Pendleton (1960), Director of Personnel for the entire
United States Marine Corp (1962), Commander of the Marine Corps
Development Command at Quantico, VA (1968) - born in Crisfield.
John Wesley Nelson - Founder of Del Monte canned products, born
in Crisfield
Lt. General William W. Quinn - Graduate of West Point, Chief of
Information for the Army(1957), Deputy Director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency - born in Crisfield.
John Millard Tawes - Maryland State Comptroller, Governor of
the State of Maryland (1959-1967), Head of the Maryland Department of
Natural Resources, State Treasurer. Governor Tawes is believed
to have accomplished something that has never before been done in the
history of the State of Maryland - that of filling all three seats on
the State Board of Public Works: Governor, Comptroller, and Treasurer.
Lem and Steve Ward - woodcarvers famous for
carving wildfowl. Pioneers of the American art of woodcarving,
featured in National Geographic Magazine three times. In 1983
Lem Ward received the National Heritage award issued by President
Ronald Regan through the National Endowment for the Arts - recognizing
both brothers as the fathers of the modern movement in decorative
wildlife carving in America.
Sources: Excerpt from "Crisfield Heritage"
by Jack Paul, Somerset Guide 2003; History of Crisfield and the
Surrounding Areas by Woodrow T. Wilson; The Last Waterman by
Glenn Lawson; Maryland Historical Trust
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