Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Jefferson County. The Episcopal Church. Page 444. Rev. JAMES CRAIK, D. D., was born in Alexandria, VA., Aug. 31, 1806, practiced law for several years in western Virginia; determined to change his profession, and after a thorough study of the prescribed course, was ordained by Bishop Meade, 1839; exercised the duties of the sacred ministry in the region where he had practiced law - in Charleston, West Virginia, and a large extent of neighboring country, until Aug. 1844, when he removed to Louisville and entered upon the rectorship of Christ Church, to which he had been unanimously elected, May 27, 1844, and where he still ministers (June, 1873), in the 29th year of his pastorate. His "Pastoral Letter to the Congregation" in Aug. 1854, reviewing the 10 years of his ministry just closed, shows that during that time the baptisms in Christ Church were 538, there had been confirmed 219, and the additions to the communion had been 271. The parochial statistics for the next 8 years, to 1862, were - Baptisms 342, confirmaions 249, and 254 added to the list of communicants. The report of the same to the annual convention in May, 1872, shows baptisms 162 and confirmations 91, within the year previous, and a total membership of 554, of whom 106 were added within the year. A wonderful record of faithful labor and its blessing! Dr. Craik has been president of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies at each of the sessions of the General Convention from 1862 to 1871, inclusive; and has spared time to make the following valuable contributions to church literature: "The Divine Life and the New Birth," "The Incarnation, a Supplement to 'The Divine Life and the New Birth,' "Old and New," and "Sketches of the History of Christ Church, Louisville." [Historical Sketches of Christ Church, Louisville, 1862, pp. 118, 128]. Craik Meade = VA WV http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/craik.j.txt