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         A. C. CRADDOCK, a leading farmer of Louisa County, residing on Muscatine Island, on section 5, Port Louisa Township, was born in Washtenaw County, Mich., in 1842. He received a liberal education in the graded schools of Ypsilanti, Mich., and also attended school after coming to Louisa County. He went to Massachusetts in 1860, securing work in a cutlery establishment of Lowell, and also was employed in the city of Boston. Going to Concord, N. H., he enlisted in 1865 in the late war, becoming a member of Company L, 1st New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, and was mustered into service at Lebanon. He went directly to Washington, D. C., and was there at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln. He participated in the . . .

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. . . grand review at Washington, and was honorably discharged June 23, 1865, after which he returned to Iowa, and engaged in farming in Louisa County.

In Muscatine County, in 1881, the union of A. C. Craddock and Sarah Freeman, a native of Iowa, was celebrated. Her parents, David and Mary (Campbell) Freeman, were natives of Pennsylvania, and removed to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1846.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Craddock took up their residence on the farm where they now reside. He is the owner of a farm comprising seventy-five acres of arable land, all under a high state of cultivation, and specially adapted to the raising of melons. It is pleasantly situated seven miles from Muscatine and two miles from Fruitland. Politically, Mr. Craddock is a Republican, and though never having been an office-seeker has served a number of times as Constable and also been a member of the School Board. Socially, he belongs to William Vaile Post No. 447, G. A. R., at Fruitland. Religiously, he is a Presbyterian, and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They are the parents to two children: Delmer, now at home, and Edith, who died July 25, 1887, aged two years and five months.