Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Craft, John E. February 10, 1837 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 494
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    John E Craft, an influential citizen of Redstone 
township, was born on the farm which is now owned by Bashear 
Craft in Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna, February 
10, 1837, and is a son of John C Craft and Elizabeth Colley 
Craft.  
    John C Craft was born in Redstone township in 1800.  His 
wife was a daughter of John Colley who lived for many years 
in Redstone township, and died June 13, 1851.  
    John E Craft was married to Mary E Jacobs, a daughter of 
William Jacobs, who died in 1868, of Redstone, June 28, 
1869, at the Baptist church in Brownsville by Rev Skinner.  
At the age of fourteen, he began working with a threshing 
machine and has followed that business continually ever 
since.  He is known as the "king thresher" throughout 
Fayette county. He is a leading member and elder in the 
Cumberland Presbyterian church at Pleasant View.  His 
valuable farm in Redstone containing 130 acres is underlaid 
with rich deposits of coal and limestone.  He is a man of 
unflinching integrity and possesses fine business 
qualifications.  In politics he is a democrat as were his 
father and grandfather.  

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