Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 240 - 241

 CHARLES CRAIG owns and occupies a well-regulated farm of 120 acres on section 14, in Gypsum Township, where he makes a specialty of Clyde and Norman horses and thoroughbred cattle.  As an honest man and a good citizen, pursuing the even tenor of his way and giving his strict attention to his own concerns, he is contributing in an unobtrusive manner to the development of his township, and augmenting its attractions as a desirable place of residence for an enterprising and intelligent class of people.  He has occupied this property since the spring of 1883, and effected nearly all of the improvements which we see to-day, and which in their character speak in a forcible manner of his industry and perseverance.

      The Craig family have been quite largely represented in Kentucky for two or three generations.  From that State the paternal grandparents of our subject removed to Hendricks County, Ind., during the early settlement of the latter, and were numbered among its worthiest pioneers and most useful citizens.  There they reared their family, and their son Robert, the father of our subject, first learned the trade of tanner, which he later abandoned to engage as a stock-dealer, in which he was successful during the period of his brief life.  He died, however, when Charles was a little lad six years of age.  The latter was born in Hendricks County, Ind., on the 24th of July, 1847, and after the death of his father made his home with his paternal grandparents, near the city of Indianapolis, until reaching his majority.  The mother, after the death of her husband, removed to the vicinity of Danville, where she now resides.  Mr. Craig was reared to farming pursuits, which he followed in his native county until about 1876, and on the 30th of January of that year, being then nearly twenty-nine years of age, was united in marriage with Miss Mary S. Carlton, who was born in Johnson County, Mo., Jan. 31, 1859.  Mrs. Craig is the daughter of F.S. and Lucinda (Blevins) Carlton, who were natives of North Carolina, and are now residents of Gypsum Township.  She was educated mostly in her native State, and removed with her parents to Kansas about 1871, and completed her studies in the school near her father's residence in this county. Of her union with our subject there have been born two children, namely: Lilly Dell, April 20, 1877, and Maud P., Aug 29, 1881.

      The farm of our subject comprises 120 acres of fine bottom land, all under fence and remarkably fertile.  He has a good orchard with various of the smaller fruits, and is held in high regard among his fellow-citizens, among whom he has served as Constable and Road Overseer.  He spends most of his time in strict attention to his own concerns, but upon occasions of general elections votes the straight Democratic ticket.

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