Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

J. B. CRAFT, proprietor, Virginia House, is a native of Fayette
County, Pa., and was born at Brownsville, July 30, 1838.  His
father, William B. Craft, was a manufacturer of grain-cleaning
machines, and was also a native of the Key-stone State.  He
married Evaline White, a native of Ohio.  They raised a family of
seven children, and our subject was their second child.  J. B.
received his schooling in Brownsville, and there learned his
carriage maker's trade, which he followed about eight years.  He
came to Cass County in 1864.  In 1871 he took charge of his
present hotel, and from that time until the present, except one
year (1874) spent in the grocery trade, has been its proprietor.
William B., his father, died in the year 1855, and his mother is
still living, a resident of Fulton County.  Our subject was
married Oct. 9, 1862, to Miss Phoebe L. Dunaway, daughter of
James Dunaway, a farmer of Fayette County, Pa., where she was
born March 5, 1845.  They have six children, four sons and two
daughters, viz.:  Annie E., W. Earnest, Edward, Thomas, Bertha
and George.  Mr. Craft has been from time to time identified with
the public interests and growth of Virginia, aside from providing
the city with an all important adjunct, "a first-class hotel;"
has served as a member of the City Council about six years.  He
has been for several years a member of the School Board, Police
Magistrate, and is at present the City Treasurer, which position
he has filled about eight years.  Mr. and Mrs. Craft are both
members of the Christian church.

Craft White Dunaway
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Fayette-PA OH Fulton-IL