History of Rockingham County Virginia United States of America

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John Newton Craig, minister, was born in Rockingham county, Va., May 14, 1831; son of George Evans and Matilda (Guthrie) Craig; grandson of George and Elizabeth (Evans) Craig, and of John and Margaret (Gilkeson) Guthrie; great-grandson of James and Mary (Laird) Craig, and of William and Esther (McClelland) Guthrie; and great grandson of William and Jean Craig, who came to Virginia from the north of Ireland in 1721, and of ?? Guthrie and Jennie Stuart, also immigrants from the north of Ireland. He was graduated at Washington college, Lexington, Va. A.B., 1853, A.M., 1856; attended the University of Virginia, 1854-56; Union theological seminary, Va., 1856-58; and Columbia seminary, S.C., 1858-59. He was pastor at Lancaster, Waxhaw, and Douglass, S.C., 1859-70; chaplain of the 9th and 5th S.C. regiments in the Confederate army, 1861-65; pastor at Holly Springs, Miss., 1870-83; and secretary of home missions of the Southern Presbyterian assembly from 1883, his office being removed in 1886 from Baltimore, Md., to Atlanta, Ga. He was a trustee of Davidson college, N.C., 1868-70; member of the board of directors, Southwestern Presbyterian university, Clarksville, Tenn., 1882-88; and president of the Scotch-Irish society of Atlanta for several years. He was married in 1862 to Lydia Brevard, daughter of Dr. Charles W. and Mary Barringer Harris of Cabarras county, N.C. Their son, J. N. Craig, Jr., served on the staff of the Atlanta Constitution before becoming a student of medicine; their eider daughter, Bessie Brandon, was married to R. M. Brackett, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in the Clemson agricultural and mechanical college of South Carolina; and their younger daughter, Mary Maud, married W.A. Mathews, of Atlanta, Ga. He died in Newport News, Va., Oct. 24, 1900.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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