Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs . he maternal ancestry of Isaac Craig, was, like the paternal, of Scotch-Irishorigin. Richard Fulton, of Paxtang, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, wasborn in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1706, and died in Paxtang now Dauphincounty, in 1774. He came to Pennsylvania in 1722, and settled on the banksof the Susquehanna below Harrisburg. He married Isabel McChesney; hisdaughter, Isabel, married Hugh Wilson; and their daughter, Isabel Wilson,married Henry Fulton, born 1768, in Cecil county, Maryland, died in Jeffer-son
Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs . he maternal ancestry of Isaac Craig, was, like the paternal, of Scotch-Irishorigin. Richard Fulton, of Paxtang, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, wasborn in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1706, and died in Paxtang now Dauphincounty, in 1774. He came to Pennsylvania in 1722, and settled on the banksof the Susquehanna below Harrisburg. He married Isabel McChesney; hisdaughter, Isabel, married Hugh Wilson; and their daughter, Isabel Wilson,married Henry Fulton, born 1768, in Cecil county, Maryland, died in Jeffer-sonville, Indiana, in 1824, and a distant relative of Richard Fulton, of Pax-tang, his wifes grandfather. They were the parents of Jane Ann Fulton, themother of Isaac Craig. Isabel (Wilson) Fulton, the mother of Jane Ann, wasborn March 9, 1773, and died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, August 1, 1832. Isaac Craig married, January 12, 1847, Rebecca McKibbin, daughter of Hon-orable Chambers McKibbin, and had ten children. Neville B. Craig, eldest son of Isaac and Rebecca (McKibbin) Craig, was. 6)7 -IT Gi\ (& • CRAIG 1167 born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1847. He received his earlyeducation in the private schools of his native city and had passed through thefirst part of his junior year at the Western University in Pittsburgh, when heleft that institution to enter the academic department of Yale, where, afteitaking the third sophomore and second senior mathematical prizes, he gradu-ated in 1870. For some months afterwards he was a law student in the officeof A. M. Brown, at Pittsburgh, but in September, 1871, resumed his studies atNew Haven, as a student of civil engineering at the Sheffield Scientific Schoolof Yale University, graduating a second time in 1873. Two weeks before com-pleting his course in civil engineering he began his life work as an aid on theUnited States Coast and Geodetic Survey and for more than a quarter of acentury afterwards continued in the almost
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