After her husband's death, Clara Crawford opened a boarding house and struggled to maintain her family's middle-class lifestyle. In 1912, the family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where Clark Crawford died of tuberculosis two years later. The family moved several times during Crawford's childhood, living in Akron, Ohio, St. Ruth Crawford was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, the second child of Clark Crawford, a Methodist minister, and Clara Crawford ( née Graves). Her music influenced later composers, particularly Elliott Carter. Though she composed primarily during the 1920s and 1930s, Seeger turned towards studies on folk music from the late 1930s until her death. Her music was a prominent exponent of the emerging modernist aesthetic and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the "ultramoderns". Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford J– November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist.
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