Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-13
DR.. C. C. CRAIG, SR.
PASSES TO REST
Well Known Physician Breathes
His Last at Seventh Avenue
Home Yesterday Morning.
ILL LESS THAN A WEEK
Prominent in Profession, in Politics
and in Societies-Army Record
Other Obituary.

DR.. G. &. Craig, So, died at his home.
1920 Seventh avenue. at lis Sunday
morning as the result of pneumoni2
with complications. AS the doctor was
about attending TO his practice a week
ago. the announcement of his demise
came as a shock to his friends all over
the city. He was seized with the fatal
illness Tuesday night and gradually
failed until the final SUMMONS came,
all hope having been abandoned last
Friday. The funeral will be held from
the home at o'clock Wednesday after
noon, with interment in Chippiannock
cemetery, where private services will
be held. Rev. George B. Smith of ST.
Paul, a boyhood friend and army mess
mate of deceased. viii officiate.
DR.. Craig was one of the old school
of physicians. He had been actively
engaged in the practice of medicine in
Rock Island since 1869, and had always
ranked among the most prominent and
best known in the three cities. He
had taken leading part in the coun-
ellis of the profession, locally and in
the state as well as in the district and
udI4Ol1dI SOtlttlto- III l4t'O NN NC'NN
many years TO the study of sanitary
questions and the advan cement of san
itary science as applied TO public well
fare. He organized the health depart
ment of the city of Rock Island under
the late Mayor V. NJ. Banding and was
instrumental in the establishment of
the abattoir in the west end of town for
the municipal handling of the beef sup
ply, a project which. through legal in
PREVENTION, was prevented from realiz-
alton.
A YOUTH IN THE ARMY.
Dr. Craig was born in WestmOreland
county. Pennsylvania Oct. 20, 1915.
He served in the civil war when
boy a little past II years of age.
He was in many of the battles of the
east during the last two years of the
strife, among them Spottsylvania, Pc
tersburg, and the battle of the Wilder
ness. He was member of the second
corps. under General Winfield Scott
Hancock. with General L. S. Grant at
the time of Lees surrender. and the
wounded.
He studied medicine after the war,
becoming interested because of his
own experiences in hospitals when he
had been wounded.
CAME HERE IN 1869.
DR.. Craig was a graduate of Jeffer-
son college, Philadelphia. He came to
Rock Island TO practice in 1869, and
had resided here since. In May, 1889,
he was appointed surgeon of Rock Is
land arsenal by Secretary of War Proc
tor, serving continuously until his
death A few years ago a bill passed
con gress reorganizing the medical de
partment of the army and creating
what is called the medical reserve
corps. Although past the specified age
for enrolment, his appointment there
in was recommended by the surgeon
general, endorsed by the secretary of
war and he was commissioned by Pres
ident Roosevelt.
In 1896, with DR.. c. Bernhard. Sr
and the late DR.. c. c. Carter. he form
ed the Rock Island sanitarium, which
continued through a period of 10 years
Upon the dissolution of the partner
ship DR.. Craig. with his son. DR.. G. G.
Craig. JT, continued the practice of his
profession.
DR.. Craig was a member of the
American Medical association Ameri-
can Public Health Association of Mill
tary Surgeons, Illinois State Medical
society, ex-president of the Illinois and