COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: CRAIG, Price K. (published 1887)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Co., 1887
Page 684-685

        PRICE K. CRAIG, trustee of Jefferson Township, resides in the
village of New Mount Pleasant. He was born in Columbiana County, Ohio,
August 27, 1842, a son of Wesley and Sarah A. (Jones) Craig, natives of
Pennsylvania, but married in Columbiana County, Ohio, where they lived many
years. Later they moved to Stark County, Ohio, where they both died. Price
K. Craig left home Christmas week of 1860, and came to Jay County, Indiana,
to the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Finch, in Jefferson Township,
with whom he remained until the following June, when in response to the
call of President Lincoln for volunteers he enlisted for three months, in
the Fifty-sixth Indiana Infantry, his service being in Kentucky. He
participated in the battle at Richmond, that State. After his discharge he
returned to the home of his parents in Ohio, and enlisted in Company D, One
Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, hoping to thus procure the discharge
of his father, who although over age had volun
teered. He partially failed in this however, but served eighteen months,
his father completing his term. After his service in the One Hundred and
Fifteenth he returned to Ohio, and in the spring of 1864 visited the State
of Illinois, and there enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth
Illinois Infantry, for 100 days, the most of his service being guard duty
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Soon after his last discharge he came again to
Jay County and for fifteen years he engaged in teaching school during the
winter, spending the summer in working on farms, or clerking in stores.
From 1874 to 1876 he was deputy treasurer of Jay County, and while thus
employed lived at Portland. He then taught a few terms of school, and then
until 1885 was in the general mercantile business at New Mount Pleasant. In
1884 he was elected trustee of Jefferson Township, and was re-elected in
1886. He is an active public spirited citizen and has the confidence and
esteem of a large circle of friends
and acquaintances. He is a prominent man in the councils of the democratic
party, always upholding its principles with a firm hand. Mr. Craig was
married October 15, 1870, to Miss Amelia Jane Graves, a native of Union
County, Indiana, born April 27, 1847, a daughter of Layton I. Graves. To
them have been born six children, but three of whom are living -Alverda,
Arthur and Russell. Harrison died in infancy; Priscilla, aged four years
and eight days, and Anna aged sixteen months. Mr. and Mrs. Craig are
members of the Christian church.


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