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Author: S. J. Clarke

CLARENCE BURNETT CRAIG.
    Clarence Burnett Craig, attorney at law at Pine Bluff, with offices in the
Citizens Bank building, was born in Hickman county, Kentucky, in 1885, his
parents being Joseph and Martha (Hicks) Craig. The father was born in Perry
county, Tennessee, and at the time of the Civil war joined the Confederate
forces, being wounded in action. The mother was a representative of one of the
old families originally from Virginia. To Mr. and Mrs. Craig were born the
following named: Clarence Burnett; J. T., an attorney living at Paragould,
Arkansas, who formerly served as a member of the state legislature; W. A., a
physician living at Eudora, Arkansas; Sam V., an attorney, residing at Clinton,
Kentucky; Claude, an educator of Oklahoma; Betty, the wife of the Rev. Ernest
Peters; Viva, the wife of David B. Graham; Jesse of Clinton, Kentucky; and John,
who follows farming in Kentucky.

    Clarence Burnett Craig pursued his education in Marvin College of Clinton
county, Kentucky, in the State Normal School at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and in
the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, in which latter place he
pursued his law course and won his professional degree. He afterward practiced
at Paducah, Kentucky, for several years and there filled the position of county
attorney of McCracken county for four years. In 1918 he enlisted for service in
the United States army at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and was assigned to the Officers
Training School. After leaving the army he removed to Pine Bluff, where he has
since engaged in law practice, and although one of the younger representatives
of the bar here, he has made steady progress and has already reached a position
which many an older lawyer might well envy.

    Mr. Craig was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Rabb Kirkland of Paducah,
Kentucky, and during the period of their connection with Pine Bluff they have
won many friends here and have been accorded a cordial welcome in the social
circles of the city. Fraternally Mr. Craig is connected with the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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