Biography of Robert Alexander Crabb
Robert Alexander Crabb, general attorney for the Laclede Gas Light Company, has been a representative of the St. Louis bar since 1895, and moreover has been a lifelong resident of St. Louis, his birth having here occurred January 31, 1868. His father was Robert McKenzie Crabb who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and came to America in 1849. After a brief residence in Davenport, Iowa, he removed to St. Louis, and for many years followed the printing business, having learned the trade in early manhood. He wedded Mary L. Mannix, whose father started for California in 1849, but the wagon … Read more