Pennsylvania Families

This biography probably comes from Jane Maria Craig's Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western
Pennsylvania, and his Descendants, (Greensburg, PA: unknown, 1915), page 63. From online images of the book at heritagequestonline.com.

Alexander enlisted in the the 135th Pa. Volunteer Infantry in 1862 and became its hospital sergeant. He then reinlisted as Second Lieutenant in Company A of the 57th Regiment of
the Pa. Volunteer Infantry. After the war he graduated from Jefferson Medical College (1865), married Eleanor Margaretta Righter (1867), and settled at Columbia in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he practiced medicine. He was surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad for thirty years, was prominent in the Medical Society of Pennsylvania and was a member of the Scotch Irish Society of America.

Alexander graduated in 1865 from the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. He practiced allopathy. He died at Columbia, PA, from apoplexy. Journal of American Medical Association 33:620 for obituary, and Hafner, Arthur Wayne, Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929 (Chicago: American Medical Association, c.1993).

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censuses:
1870 United States Census, 2nd Ward Columbia, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Series M593, Roll 1354, Page 127

 

Craig, Alexander, 31, physician and surgeon

-----, Margie E., 26

----------, Alex, 1

Pigman, Samuel, 13, BP: Virginia, attending school

Raridan, Ellen, 25, Servant, BP: Ireland.

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1880 United States Census Lancaster Co., 2nd Ward, Columbia, Pennsylvania

Series T9, Roll 1141, Page 121C

Craig, Alex, head, 41, Medical Doctor, PA PA PA

-----, Margaret, wife, 36, Keeping House, PA PA PA

----------, Alex, son, 11, At Home, PA PA PA

---------, Lizzie, Dau, 9, At Home, PA PA PA

-----, Washington, Son, 7, At Home, PA PA PA

---------, Nellie, Dau, 5, At Home, PA PA PA

--------, John J., Son, 3, At Home, PA PA PA

Skoffstall, Barbara, Other, 19, Servant, PA GER PA