Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County by Gresham and Wiley, 1889, p494 John E Craft, an influential citizen of Redstone township, was born on the farm which is now owned by Bashear/?Brashear Craft in Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna, February 10, 1837, and is a son of John C Craft and Elizabeth Colley Craft. John C Craft was born in Redstone township in 1800. His wife was a daughter of John Colley who lived for many years in Redstone township, and died June 13, 1851. John E Craft was married to Mary E Jacobs, a daughter of William Jacobs (who died in 1868) of Redstone, June 28, 1869, at the Baptist church in Brownsville by Rev Skinner. At the age of fourteen, he began working with a threshing machine and has followed that business continually ever since. He is known as the "king thresher" throughout Fayette county. He is a leading member and elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Pleasant View. His valuable farm in Redstone containing 130 acres is underlaid with rich deposits of coal and limestone. He is a man of unflinching integrity and possesses fine business qualifications. In politics he is a democrat as were his father and grandfather.
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