BIO: William CRAIG, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 147.
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  WILLIAM CRAIG, Greenwood Furnace, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in 
Bloomfield, Blair county, Pa., June 15, 1848, son of John A. and 
Barbara A. (White) Craig. His father and grandfather were natives of 
Virginia; the Craig family is of English origin. Mr. Craig's 
grandfather, also named William, was a wagon-maker and house carpenter; 
he removed from Virginia to Big Cove Tannery, Fulton county, Pa., and 
there carried on wagon-making on an extensive scale. He was a Democrat. 
He was married in Virginia, and had six children: William; John A.; 
Jackson; Mary; Rachel; and Effie. Mr. Craig was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. He died in 1876. John A. Craig received a 
common school education. He worked in blast furnaces; was engaged at 
this labor successively in Fulton, Blair, Mifflin and Huntingdon 
counties. He was also employed for a part of his time as a charcoal 
burner. His wife, Barbara A. White, whom he married in Fulton county, 
was born in that county in 1819. Mr. Craig is a Democrat. His church 
connection is with the Baptist denomination. He is a quiet and 
unassuming gentleman, and enjoys the hearty respect and good will of 
his acquaintances. He resides with his son and only child, William 
Craig, at Greenwood Furnace.
  William Craig (2) attended for a very limited time the public school 
at Mill Creek, Huntingdon county. He began business life as a laborer 
for the Logan Iron and Steel Company, at Logan, Mifflin county, Pa., in 
1868. He was appointed their foreman in 1873, and in 1893 was promoted 
to be manager at Greenwood Furnace, which is his present position. His 
good judgment and faithful performance of duty have left the company no 
cause to regret the appointment. Sobriety and industry and intelligent 
effort at mental improvement have marked Mr. Craig's course and ensured 
his prosperity. He has spent twenty-five years in the employ of the 
Logan Iron and Steel Company. He is a Democrat; is a member of F. and 
A. M., No. 203, Lewistown, Pa.; of the I. O. O. F., No. 97, Lewistown, 
and of the Encampment, I. O. R. M., No. 67, Lewistown.
  William Craig was married in Mifflin county, in June, 1869, to Ada 
Dearmant, a native of Huntingdon; their children are: Mary M.; Maud, 
deceased; John M., employed in the store at Greenwood Furnace; and one 
that died in infancy. Mrs. Ada Craig died in 1879. Mr. Craig, two years 
later, married her sister, Jennie E. Dearmant. He is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church.