Edward Calvin Crow, son of Calvin Austin and Elizabeth Thaxton Crow, was born on 18 June 1866, in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama. He studied law at the University of Alabama and graduated with his law degree in 1888 and took a post doctorate law course at the University of Virginia in 1889. He practiced law in Florence, Alabama, for fifteen years before moving to Birmingham in 1903. He was appointed (and later elected) judge of the 10th judicial circuit
In 1889, he married Evie McKee; the couple had three daughters, Elizabeth, Lucy, and Evelyn. Crow died on 2 February 1956.
From the guide to the Edward Calvin Crow correspondence MSS. 0378., 1952, (University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama)
