Robert Wallace Craig

Arizona, the Youngest State, 1913
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Dr. Robert Wallace Craig of Phoenix was born in Danville Illinois, October 30, 1871, a son of Robert G. and Harriett 
(Wallace) Craig, the former a farmer who devoted his attention to general agricultural pursuits in the middle west. 
Dr. Craig was accorded the educational advantages offered by the public schools and supplemented his work in the 
grades by a high school course in Wichita Kansas and by study in the University of Kansas.

He read medicine and pursued a course in the Rush Medical College from which he was graduated in 1895 and spent 
two years as intern in the Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He afterward practiced in that city for two year and 
in 1898 arrived in Phoenix where he has since remained.  In 1905 he married Mrs. Maud Ward, of Victoria B.C.