Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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JOHN CRAIG, Long Beach
 
Born in N. Y. City, 1838. Educated in public schools and College of New York 
(grad. 1855). During Civil War superintended the conversion of merchant ships 
into gun�boats, and in 1865 founded a shipyard at Gibraltar, Mich.; organized 
firm of John Craig & Sons in 1882 and established works at Trenton, that state; 
works moved to Toledo, Ohio, in 1889, and re-organized under the name of Craig 
Shipbuilding Co.; thus operated until 1905, when the business was sold to the 
Toledo Shipbuilding Co. In 1906 re-organized the Craig Shipbuilding Co. and 
established a complete shipbuilding plant at Long Beach, Cal.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.190