BIO: W. B. Craig, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER XL.

                        BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG. 

443  BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG.

  REV. W. B. CRAIG, Shippensburg, was born in Dauphin County, Penn., 
June 22, 1827, son of Hugh and Rachel (Boyd) Craig, natives of 
Pennsylvania and of Scotch-Irish descent, former of whom was a 
successful farmer.  Of their two sons our subject is the elder.  Rev. 
W. B. Craig was reared on the farm, but had the advantage of a regular 
college curriculum; he graduated at Jefferson College in 1853, and in 
1856 graduated at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny City, 
Penn.  He then accepted a united call from the churches of New 
Bloomfield, Sherman's Creek and Mouth of Juniata, Perry County, Penn., 
remaining in his first charge nearly eleven years; he was then 
transferred to Congruity, Westmoreland Co., Penn., where he remained 
five years; and in 1880 came to Shippensburg, Penn., and here he has 
passed the early years of his life, where his parents had resided for 
many years.  He was married, in 1859, to Catherine H. Singer, a lady of 
German descent.  Of their five children four are now living:  Hugh, 
reading law in Pittsburgh, Penn.; Samuel, attending school in 
Philadelphia, Penn.; Catherine and Rachel, attending the State Normal 
School at Shippensburg, Penn.  Mrs. Craig is a lady of culture, a 
member of the Presbyterian Church.  In politics Rev. W. B. Craig is a 
Republican, and during the late civil war was untiring in his devotion 
to the Constitution, the Union and Freedom.