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Edwin S. Craig (Louisville, KY, Commonwealth���s attorney 7th district & attorney)

b. 1821-08-23 d. 1882-05-25

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Married to Eliza P. Mason Craig in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on December 10, 1857. Father of Mason Craig. Judge of the Louisville City Court in Louisville in 1850. Commonwealth’s attorney for the 7th Judicial District until 1861. Practiced law in the firm of Craig & Elliott in partnership with Robert J. Elliott in Louisville in 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 282B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 12, p. 596A.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Film #994040, Jefferson County Marriages.

“Death of Judge E.S. Craig,” Courier-Journal , (Louisville, Ky.), May 27, 1882, p. 4. _Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 64.

"Edwin S. Craig (1821-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial 198259257, accessed June 22, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198259257.

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Craig, Edwin S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210507 (November 12, 2026).

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