Jackson County WI Archives Biographies.....Craig, Augustus January 13, 1835 - 
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AUGUSTUS CRAIG, farmer, Section 11; P. O. Burr Oak; born in Germany on Jan. 
13, 1835; he came to the United States in 1850, and lived two years in Geneva, 
Walworth Co., Wis., where he worked at his trade - that of a miller - for R. 
W. Warren; he went to La Crosse in the fall of 1854, thence to Black River 
Falls, where he worked for Mr. A. Shepard, in a mill for three years; thence 
again to La Crosse Co., where he worked for Mr. J. Vanness, in Union Mills; 
thence to Melrose, where he worked at his trade for two and a half years; and 
settled on his present farm in 1865. He married Louisa Young, daughter of 
Sebastian Young; they have nine children - four sons and five daughters. Mr. 
Craig learned his trade of his father, in Germany, who was also a miller.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 843.

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