James W. Craig, M.D.
Craig, James W., M.D., was born, January 17th, 1814 in Belmont County, Ohio, and is the son of Samuel C. and Jane (Woods) Craig. The paternal branch of the family came from the north of Scotland and were among the pioneer settlers of Massachusetts, having emigrated to the America anterior to the revolutionary war (sic). His mother was a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. His preliminary education was obtained at the public schools in his native county, and he subsequently attended a private school, where he enjoyed the advantages of a classical course. Having selected the medical profession as his future sphere of action, he matriculated at Western Reserve College in Cleveland, in 1849, and, after the regular course of study prescribed therein, graduated and was licensed to practice in the spring of 1851. He settled originally at Ontario, Richland County, where he entered upon his professional career, and for a period of twenty years practiced successfully and extensively in that town and in the surrounding country. Having devoted himself entirely to his professional duties, he soon acquired the reputation of a careful and skillful practioner, and enjoyed the confidence of the community. In 1870, being desirous of still extending his already large practice, he removed to Mansfield, where at once he took rank among the leaders of his profession in that city. During the late civil war he passed an examination before the Medical Board of Examiners, and was appointed surgeon for Camp Mansfield, which was a rendezvous for troops that were being organized for field service. He performed his duties with credit to himself and also to the entire satisfaction of the government. Though he is engaged in a general medical practice, he is particularly favorable to surgery, and has performed many and various surgical operations, among which may be mentioned an uncommon case, that for recto-vesico vaginal fistula. He was married, January 24th, 1854, to Eliza McConnell of Pennsylvania.
From The Biographical Encyclopædia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century, page 600, Galaxy Publishing Company, Cincinnati and Philadelphia, 1876, S.A. George & Co., Stereotypers & Electrotypers]