Rev. James Rees Ewing Craighead, D.D. and Elizabeth Newton "Bessie" Corbett

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Husband Rev. James Rees Ewing Craighead, D.D. ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 5 Oct 1868 - Elders Ridge, Young Twp, Indiana Co, PA 3
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         Father: Prof. Samuel Judson Craighead (1834-      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Sarah E. Elder (      -      ) 1 2 3

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       Marriage: 1 Sep 1898 - Leatherwood, Clarion Co, PA 5

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Wife Elizabeth Newton "Bessie" Corbett ^{5 6}

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           Born:  - China
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           Died: Aft 1915
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         Father: Rev. Hunter Corbett (      -Aft 1915) 7 8 9 10
         Mother: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Culbertson (1835-1872) 7 9 11

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. James Rees Ewing Craighead, D.D.

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He received his preliminary education in the grade school of Elders Ridge, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and at Elders Ridge Academy, from which he was graduated in 1887. Subsequently, he entered Washington and Jefferson College, where he took his degree in 1891, and during the following year attended Princeton Seminary. In 1894 he was graduated from McCormick Seminary at Chicago and shortly afterward was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. He occupied pulpits in Cherry Tree and Glen Campbell, Pennsylvania; Blackwell, Oklahoma; Anna, Carbondale and Oswego, Illinois; and Creston, Iowa. Later, he served at Elders Ridge and West Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where he eventually relinquished his pastoral duties.
Dr. Craighead's literary facility enabled him to record in enduring form a number of his special interests. These are reflected in his published books: "Hunter Corbett," who was for fifty-six years a missionary in China; "The Lost Empire," a story of the French occupancy in America told in blank vese; "Black Hawk," a romance of the Black Hawk war in Spenserian verse; and "Salvage," a brochure of selected verse.
Dr. Craighead also took a lively interest in the civic health and progress of those communities in which he made his home, and as a resident of Blackwell, Oklahoma, served as secretary of the School Board. He was a Republican in politics and a member of Gamma Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Washington and Jefferson College.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Newton "Bessie" Corbett

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Clarion Co, PA; Carbondale, Jackson Co, IL

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 503.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 210.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 434.

4 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 116.

5 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 435.

6 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 306.

7 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 206, 353.

8 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), Pg 578, BP 11.

9 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 115.

10 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 305.

11 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 303.