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- General note - The namesake of his father who was a doctor of divinity, Craig was born in Edytown, New York, U.S.A., on February 22,1878. His mother was Adelaide Churchill. Educated in three universities--Cornell, Rochester and Pacific-- Craig obtained the degree of bachelor of laws in 1894 and that of master of arts in 1911. After serving as the superintendent of schools in Washington County, Oregon(1895-1898), he was admitted to the Oregon bar and to practice in the federal courts(1898-1899). Craig''s deep interest in education led to his trip to the Philippines, made soon after having qualified for the Philippine Civil Service in 1904. Immediately he joined the Bureau of Education first as a supervising teacher. Then, he was promoted to division superintendent of school and later, became the principal of the academic department of the Philippine School of Arts and Trades. He was an instructor in history at the Philippine Normal School and the Manila High School in 1909 when he moved to the University of Manila in 1922 as a professor of history. It took Craig five years to complete his first attempt at a sketchy biography of Jose Rizal, "The Greatest Man of the Brown Race." His first book of 56 pages was later translated to Spanish and followed by a second bigger volume of 300 pages, entitled" Jose Rizal and his Writings." To cap his Rizalian work, Craig authored and published the authoritative "Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal." In recognition of his singular writing accomplishments, Craig was appointed a Rizal research professor in the University of the Philippines in 1922, a position he held for eight years. In 1929 he was conferred the degree of doctor of literature, honoris causa. He was at one time the president of the Far East Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, a fellow of the American Geographical Society, and a member of the Author''s League of America and the Society of Mayflower decendants. In 1930, he was named a member of the National Commission on the identification of the bones of Gregorio del Pilar. A Scottish Rite Freemason, Craig was 70 when he died at Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. A. on February 11, 1949.
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