Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Cragg, Edward C 
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Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900

Edward C. Cragg, a resident farmer of Wauponsee township, Grundy county, was 
born in Indiana, August 17, 1864, and is a son of Martin and Helen N. 
(Cavelly) Cragg, both of whom were natives of Grundy county.

The subject of this review was educated in the country schools and in the high 
school at Gardner, this county, where he pursued his studies for two years. 
His training at farm labor was not meager, for as soon as old enough to handle 
the plow he began to assist his father in the cultivation of the fields. He 
remained upon the old homestead until 1894, managing the property, on which he 
raised garden vegetables and the cereals best adapted to this climate.

In that year Mr. Cragg was united in marriage to Miss Laura Shier, a daughter 
of Nicholas and Mary (Dunlavey) Shier, of Grundy county. The following year 
they removed to the farm in Mazon township, where they remained until 1897. 
Mr. Cragg then purchased his present farm and has since devoted his energies 
to its cultivation. During the summer season he acted as a thresher and corn-
sheller, and in this way added materially to his income. He is practical and 
progressive in his methods of farming, and these qualities have brought to him 
quite a gratifying success. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Cragg has been blessed 
with one child, Helen May, who was born in May, 1898. In politics Mr. Cragg is 
a Republican, having supported that party ever since attaining his majority. 
He advocates all measures for the public good, but has never sought political 
office, preferring to devote his time and energies to agricultural pursuits 
that he may thus provide a good living and comfortable home for himself and 
family.

Additional Comments:
Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County, 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p697-698

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