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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