CRAIG, S. L.

CRAIG, PATTERSON, HAMILTON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/18/2014 at 04:25:46

Biography ~ S. L. Craig

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), pp. 590-91:

S. L. CRAIG, engaged in general farming and stock-raising, on section 25, Burrell Township, and an enterprising and public-spirited citizen of Decatur County, where he has lived for twenty-eight years, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, September 3, 1853. He is the eldest child of W. F. and ROXCENA (PATTERSON) CRAIG, of whom the mother is deceased, her death occurring in 1882. The father is now a resident of Davis City, this county. They are the parents of nine children whose names are as follows – SAMUEL L., DANIEL THURMAN, YOUDORA, ORLENA JANE, WILLIAM W., LEE ROY, NORA ZELL, A. GRANT, and MARY T. When our subject was four years old his parents removed from Ohio to Iowa, coming down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to St. Louis, and from there with ox-teams to Davis City, locating on land which the father now owns. Here SAMUEL L. CRAIG was reared, his youth being spent in assisting with the work of the farm, and his education received at the schools of Davis City. December 27, 1874, he was married to Miss HARRIET HAMILTON, who was born in Schuyler County, Missouri, August 26, 1860, a daughter of WILLIAM A. HAMILTON. They are the parents of one son and one daughter – WILLIAM F. and NETTIE R. Mr. CRAIG located on his present farm in April, 1875, where he has 200 acres of choice land, well improved and well cultivated, a good residence, surrounded by shade and ornamental trees, and commodious barn and other farm buildings, and is classed among the prosperous young farmers of the county, and by his honorable dealings and genial disposition he has made many friends. In his political views Mr. Craig is a Republican.

Transcribed by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historial Society Musuem, January of 2014