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Born 1848
From The daily news' history of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo. : from the time of the Platte purchase to the end of the year 1898 : preceded by a short history of Missouri : supplemented by biographic (1898)
JAMES Y. CRAIG, horseshoer, 916 Frederick avenue, was born Nov. 23, 1848 at Rodgersville, Ky. He came to Missouri with his father, W. L. Craig in 1855, locating first at Savannah, but coming to St. Joseph in 1863. He was first married to Mary F. Baxter, Nov. 18, 1869, who bore him two boys, still living, and who died in November, 1889. He then married Miss Elizabeth Tibbetts, May 24, 1893. They have one child, Lucille Elizabeth, aged two years.
As printed in The daily news' history of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo. : from the time of the Platte purchase to the end of the year 1898 : preceded by a short history of Missouri : supplemented by biographic (1898). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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