Thomas E. Craig, M. D.

    Thomas E. Craig, M. D., physician, Manchester, was born in Glenville County, Canada, March 24, 1836, a son of John and Margaret Craig, he a native of the north part of Ireland, and she of Canada. Mr. John Craig, was born in 1802, and immigrated to Canada with his parents about 1820, where he subsequently married and settled as a farmer, as one of the pioneers, the country there being mostly a wilderness, very sparsely settled, and here he resided until near the close of his life. In 1871 he sold his farm and visited his son, Dr. T.  E. Craig, of Dearborn County, Indiana, and in the fall of the same year went to Cass County, Missouri, where several of his children were then living, where he died in October, 1872. His widow still survives and resides with her son. They had nine children, five now surviving -Thomas E.; Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Cunningham, of Los Angeles, California; Samuel E., a resident of Holden, Missouri.

    Dr. Thomas E. Craig, the subject of this sketch, after completing his studies in the common schools, entered the grammar school of Kemptville, where he entered upon a course of study preparatory to entering college. From this school he entered Victoria College at Coburg, where he spent two years; thence he entered the medical department of Toronto University, at Toronto, where he spent four years, graduating in 1864. In January, 1865, he came to this county and formed a partnership with Dr. W. W. Terrell, for the practice of his profession at Manchester. This partnership was dissolved in the fall of the same year, Dr. Terrell moving away. Dr. Craig continuing his practice here.

    Dr. Craig was united in marriage, July 26, 1866, with Miss Hattie McMullen, daughter of John and Mary Ann McMullen. By this union they have two sons: Carlton Sims, born February 22, 1869 and J. Moray, born March 2, 1874.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.