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Samuel D. Craig


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(Born: December 19, 1777 - Died: March 2, 1856)

American lawyer. He practiced in New York City in 1842. He married Helen Kortright Brasher on May 16, 1808, and they had one son, Benjamin Davis Craig. (This information is in Joseph Alfred Scoville, Old Merchants of New York City, 1885, p. 33.) Among his last trials was to assist with the defense of Nicholas Behan, who was convicted of murder in 1854.

 

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Bibliography:

  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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