Biography of Seth Craft

A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record

of

LaPorte County, Indiana

Rev. E. D. Daniels - 1904

Seth Craft is one of the most enterprising and progressive agriculturists of Scipio township. Here he has spent his entire life, his birth occurring in LaPorte County on the 3rd of April 1865. His father, Henry Craft, was born in Pennsylvania, April 1, 1826, and throughout his active business life followed farming with marked success, but is now living retired life in the city of LaPorte, enjoying the fruits of former toil. In early manhood he married Miss Elizabeth Garwood, who was born in Ohio in 1826 and they became the parents of five children, as follows: John, who died in infancy unnamed; Jennie, who was born in 1857; Seth' and Thomas who was born in 1863.

Seth Craft was reared to agricultural pursuits upon the home farm and acquired his literary education the district schools of the neighborhood. Since attaining to man's estate he has continued to follow the occupation of farming and has resided at his present place since 1885. The old home farm consisted of two hundred and forty acres, which the father divided equally between this two sons for farming. Seth receiving one hundred and twenty acres, upon which he has made many improvements and which he keeps under a high state of cultivation.

In 1886 Mr. Craft married Miss Fannie Andrews, who was also born in this county, July 1, 1864, and was educated in common schools and LaPorte high school. Her parents were Hiram H. and Lucy (Griffin) Andrews, who were married in LaPorte in 1850. Her father was born September 28, 1828, and is a railroad conductor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. Her mother's birth occurred at Elkhart, Indiana, August 28, 1828. They had five children, namely: George, born October 27, 1851; May, who was born December 27, 1854, and was married in 1874 to D. F. Wagner, a railroad engineer Living in Elkhart; Mattie who was born February 2, 1861, and died January 1869; Fannie, Mrs. Craft; and Hiram Jr., born March 31, 1870.

By his ballot Mr. Craft supports the men and measures of the Democratic party. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church of Kingsbury, Indiana, take an active and prominent part in church work, and do all within their power to advance the interests of the community in which they live.

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