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Born 1822, Jackson County
From The history of Buchanan County, Missouri (1881)
A. C. CRAIG, retired merchant, was born in Jackson County, Indiana, April 24, 1822, and lived in Jeffersonville, Indiana, until his 12th year, and then removed to Kentucky, and remained nine years. He made his home in Nashville, Tennessee, four years, and then came to this county in 1848. His education was received mostly in Kentucky, at the common schools. His early ambition was for a store, so that he spent several years as clerk. When he came West, he went into the general dry goods business with his brother, in DeKalb, in which they remained until 1858. He then came to this city and commenced in the dry goods business with Messrs. Clark & Conard. In 1862, they sold out their business, Messrs Clark & Conard going to Montana. In 1864, he went to Montana, and again embarked in the same trade, and remained until 1866, when he returned to St. Joseph, and entered into the wholesale business with Tootle, Farleigh & Co., and also Tootle, Craig & Co., remaining with them until 1876. Since that period his time has been occupied in attending to his private interests. He married Miss Ellen I. Christopher, daughter of Major Christopher, of Richmond, Kentucky, March 27, 185 1. They have one son, living. Dr. William B. Their eldest son, Thomas, died in January, 1877, in this city, aged twenty-five years. Mr. Craig is one of the many successful business men of this city.
7l6 BIOGRAPHICAL.
was born in DeKalb, Missouri, September 17, 1855. He graduated at the city high school, in 1873, and studied medicine with Dr. J. D. Smith for two years. Attended the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New- York, for one term, and he was graduated from the St. Louis Medical College, and the following year re-entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and received an addendum. At the opening of the St. Joseph Hospital Medical College, he was appointed Professor and Demonstrator of Anatomy, and also of Ophthalmic Surgery, and he has been a successful practitioner five years.
As printed in The history of Buchanan County, Missouri (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name A. C. Craig: Secret Orders Thomas Conrad (b. 1821)
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