Biographies:  Isaac J. CRAITE, Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI 

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Isaac J. Craite was born April 25, 1893, at Rice Lake, and attended the
public and parochial schools. In the years 1909, 1910 and 1911 he attended 
St. Thomas College at St. Paul, and in 1911-1912 taught in the commercial
department of that institution. In 1913 he was a stenographer in Minneapolis. 
The next year he was an accountant for the Farmington State Bank, of 
Farmington, Minn. In 1915 he came back to Rice Lake and entered into 
partnership with his father. He served three years in the National Guard-
1910, 1911 and 1912, in a separate battalion.  On Jan. 1, 1918, he enlisted  
at St. Paul in the Divisional Headquarters Troop of the 88th Division with 
which he spent eighteen months-six months at Camp Dodge, Iowa, and eleven 
months in France at the Divisional Headquarters.  After his return to the 
United States he was discharged at Camp Dodge June 1, 1919.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 203-204