BIO: Frank CRAIG, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 418 & 419.
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  FRANK CRAIG, a representative business man of Clearfield county, with 
interests in different sections, has been a resident of Brisbin, Pa., for 
twenty-nine years and is a member of the firm of M. & F. Craig, coal operators.  
He was born March 28, 1864, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and is a son of James and 
Bridget (Rooney) Craig, and was eighteen years of age when he accompanied his 
parents to America.
  James Craig was a coal miner all his active life and after coming to 
Clearfield county, lived at Brisbin until his death, in 1901, his burial being 
at Houtzdale.  He married Bridget Rooney, who survived him four years.  They 
had seven children born to them, namely:  Michael, who resides at Brisbin and 
is the senior member of the firm of M. & F. Craig; Frank; Hugh and James, who 
also live at Brisbin; Robert, who lives at Houtzdale; Patrick, who is a 
resident of Brisbin; and Margaret, who is the wife of Charles Rodden, and they 
live at Portage.
  Frank Craig obtained his education in the schools of his native land.  He has 
been continuously in the coal business and has been an active operator for a 
number of years.  Since 1882 he has been a resident of Brisbin and has been 
operating since 1888, at present being extensively interested in the Industry 
mine at New Castle, Clearfield county.  He is a director in the First National 
Bank of Osceola, and has valuable coal lands which he leases in both Geulich 
and Decatur townships.
  On February 5, 1902, Mr. Craig was married to Mrs. Catherine (Coons) 
Simendinger, who was born at Loretta, Cambria county, Pa., a daughter of 
William and Anastasia (Byrne) Coons, and the widow of John Simendinger.  The 
father of Mrs. Craig died in 1895 at Houtzdale, but the mother had died in 
1857,  when Mrs. Craig was a babe of two months.  Mrs. Craig was married first 
to John Simendinger and they had nine children, the three survivors being:  
Raymond L. and Albert J., both of whom are students at the Niagara University 
at Niagara Falls; and Rose, who is a student at Villa Marie Academy, at Erie, 
Pa.  Mrs. Craig is the youngest of a family of four children.  She has one 
brother and two sisters:  Bernard, who lives at Pittsburg; Mary, who was the 
wife of Hayden McGuire, of Loretta; and Emma, who is the wife of Charles Kane, 
of New Kensington, Pa.  Mr. and Mrs. Craig are members of the Catholic church 
at Houtzdale.  He is identified with the Knights of Columbus at Clearfield.  He 
is an earnest and enterprising citizen, ever ready to work for the betterment 
of his borough and county and has served thirteen years on the school board.  
In his political views he is nominally a Democrat but is inclined to be more or 
less independent of party ties.