George Washington Crawford (June 4, 1861 – April 6, 1935) was a prominent American businessman of the late 19th and early 20th century who was a founder and executive with Columbia Gas & Electric.
He was the son of Elizabeth Wilson (1833–1906) and Ebenezer "Eben" Crawford (1821–1897), a farmer from Emlenton, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
[3] According to local Emlenton history records, Eben and his brothers traveled west during the California gold rush but "returned home penniless.
He then entered the well supply business in Bolivar, New York, and in 1886,[2] along with the United States Pipe Line Company, he obtained a right of way from Bradford oil field to the eastern seaboard.
[9] His widow, who remarried in 1957 to Russell Barnett Aitken (1910–2002),[12] who owned Champ Soleil in Newport, Rhode Island, and their daughter moved to New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut, at a home known as "Tamerlane".