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Jacob T. Craig


JACOB T. CRAIG, farmer, post-office Pardoe, is a son of Francis and Annie (Powell) Craig. James Craig, the grandfather of our subject, was of Scotch­Irish descent, and he and tour of his brothers were early settlers of Delaware, and about 1798 they all removed into this county and settled on Wolf Creek. The father of our subject was born in this county about 1798, and served in the War of 1812. He was always engaged in farming, and died in 1857. His widow died in 1872. They reared a family of six children: Isabella, married Jacob Patterson, of Butler County, Penn., and died in 1861; James B. and Francis S., of Grove City; William, of Butler County, David P., of Australia, and our subject, who was born in what is now Pine Township September 21, 1829. He was educated in the log school-houses, and has always been engaged in farming. In 1857 he married Hannah Hosack, daughter of James and Sarah (Rose) Irwin, and widow of Thomas Hosack, of Findley Township. By her first husband Mrs. Craig had two children: Mary Adeline Hosack. Mrs. John Campbell, of Grove City, and Harriet Rebecca Hosack, Mrs. Harry Brigham, of Franklin, Venango County. Our subject has six living children: Sarah Martha, David Francis, Matthew Irwin, James Taylor, Charles B. and Homer Griffith, all at home. He and family are members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Hazzard, of which he is steward. In 1873 he moved onto his present farm, where they have since resided.

History of Mercer County, 1888 page 1021



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