Craig, Elijah, 1738-1808

LC control no.	nr2004013233
Personal name heading	Craig, Elijah, 1738-1808 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Philemon, 1738-1808
Found in	Committee of Helps (Fayette County, Ky.). Report of the Committee of Helps, called by the Town Fork Church, to enquire into sundry charges against the religious and moral character of Jacob Creath, exhibited in a pamphlet, published by Elijah Craig, 1807: p. 1, etc. (Elijah Craig; author of a pamphlet entitled Portrait of Jacob Creath) His Three letters from Philemon to Onesimus, 1803. Wikipedia, via WWW, Aug. 30, 2011 (Rev. Elijah Craig; ord. Baptist preacher 1771; emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky in 1781 seeking greater religious freedom; opened the first classical school in Ky.; entrepreneur; established the first fulling and paper mills in Ky., also a rope walk and distillery; inventor of corn based bourbon whiskey; b. 1738 or 1843 in Virginia; d. Georgetown, Ky. 1808) Ancestry, Aug. 30, 2011: Ancestry World Tree (Elijah Craig; son of Taliaferro "Toliver" Craig and Mary "Polly" Hawkins; b. Spotsylvania, Va. 15 Nov. 1738; d. Georgetown, Ky. 18 May 1808) MWA/NAIP files, Aug. 30, 2011 (hdg.: Craig, Elijah, 1738-1808: note: publisher of Three letters from Philemon to Onesimus; authorship attributed to him by D.C. McMurtrie and E.C. Starr)