Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Reedsburg:

L. D. Craker, farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Reedsburg; was born in Erie Co., N.Y., May 3, 1838; he came from New York with his parents, to Spring Prairie, Walworth Co., Wis., in the year 1848. His mother, Rebecca Barrett Craker, died in April, 1849; shortly after this event he left home, and for four years resided with John Bacon, Jr.; at the end of this time, in 1853, he went with his father, Mr. Z. Craker, to Reedsburg, Sauk Co., Wis. Mr. L. D. Craker had a most earnest desire for an education, and worked and attended school alternately, as opportunity offered, until by dint of hard work he had gained sufficient education for teaching; he afterward taught school for several terms, and at intervals during the time attended the academy at Delton, where he took high rank in his classes; thus, teaching and studying, his time was occupied up to the year 1863. July 4, 1863, he married Miss Lucelia Hurd, also a teacher, who was born in Ohio Nov. 3, 1845; they have a family of seven children - Luther, born Aug. 28, 1864; Alma, Aug. 27, 1867; Addie, born March 1, 1870; Clarence, born July 3, 1872; Francis, born Sept. 8, 1874. Rubie, born May 11, 1877, and Lester, born March 21, 1880. The family attend the Baptist Church. From 1864 and 1868, Mr. Craker was engaged in hop-raising; he then bought his present farm of 75 acres in Sec. 34. In politics he is a Republican. His father, Mr. Z. Craker, who is still living in the town of Winfield, Sauk Co., Wis., was born in England in the year of 1811.

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