Neville B. Craig
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29 March 1787 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US |
| Died | 3 March 1863 (aged 75) |
| Resting place | Allegheny Cemetery |
| Occupation | Lawyer, journalist, politician, historian |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Ann Fulton |
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Isaac Craig Amelia Neville Craig |
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Neville Burgoyne Craig (29 March 1787 – 3 March 1863) was a lawyer, journalist, politician and historian from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He edited the Pittsburgh Gazette newspaper from 1829 to 1841. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives during its 1843 session.
Craig was born in 1787 in the Fort Pitt Blockhouse in Pittsburgh, in which resided his father Isaac Craig and mother Amelia Neville. He attended the Pittsburgh Academy (predecessor of the University of Pittsburgh), then the College of New Jersey (later called Princeton University), from which he was expelled for participating in a student riot. He went on to study law under Judge Alexander Addison and was admitted to the bar in 1810. After marrying Jane Ann Fulton, he took leave of the legal profession, taking charge of a store at New Lisbon, Ohio, where he remained for three or four years. In the 1820s, back in Pittsburgh, he worked in local government as Deputy Attorney General for Allegheny County, Solicitor of the City of Pittsburgh, and the city's Clerk of Select Council.
Taking an interest in political discourse, Craig began to write for the Pittsburgh Gazette. In 1829 he purchased the paper, serving as proprietor until 1840 and editor until 1841. He oversaw a boom in circulation and introduced a daily edition, the city's first. In an era rife with the exchange of verbal abuse between rival newspapermen, Craig's vitriolic pen showed no mercy to his journalistic opponents, which were many, including at one time or another almost every newspaper editor in Pittsburgh. Politically, Craig led the Gazette in support of the Anti-Masonic Party. The prolonged life of that party in Allegheny County may have owed something to his persistent advocacy. Craig sympathized strongly with the antislavery and temperance movements. He set a lasting precedent for the Gazette in refusing to print runaway slave notices.
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