Isaac Craig
Isaac Craig (1742–1826) was a Pittsburgh businessman and politician in the early days of western Pennsylvania settlement. Life
Craig was born in County Down in Ireland of Protestant parents, and was fortunate enough to be apprenticed as a carpenter. After completing his apprenticeship, he became a journeyman carpenter and from his earnings was able to pay for his passage to Philadelphia. He prospered as a carpenter in Philadelphia, and at a young age became a master carpenter and a member of the Carpenters Company. He purchased land in western Pennsylvania while still in Philadelphia, and eventually went to live in Pittsburgh. In 1785, Craig married Amelia Neville in Pittsburgh, daughter of Virginian General John Neville. She survived him by more than two decades. The couple's thirteen children, ten of whom survived past infancy, included newspaper editor Neville B. Craig and Army officer Henry Knox Craig. Craig was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1787. Chief Burgess
Craig was elected and served as Chief Burgess of Borough of Pittsburgh as a Federalist 
 from 1802 to 1803. He died in 1826 in Montour, Pennsylvania. See also

List of mayors of Pittsburgh

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1742 births
1826 deaths
Mayors of Pittsburgh
Politicians from Philadelphia
Businesspeople from County Down
Irish emigrants to the United States
People of colonial Pennsylvania
Burials at Allegheny Cemetery
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Politicians from County Down