ABSTRACT
Hardin Craig was born on his father's farm near Owensboro, Kentucky, on 29 June 1875. His father, Robert Craig, a native of Ayr shire, Scotland, had migrated to Kentucky in 1850, and his mother, Mary Jane McHenry Craig, came of a Colonial family which included a member of Washington's staff, Colonel John Hardin. In 1906 Craig married Miss Gertrude Carr of Ashby, Massachusetts. Their son, Hardin Craig, Jr., was born in 1907 and is now a professor of history and the librarian at Rice University. In 1940 Professor Craig was asked to continue teaching at Stanford beyond the customary retirement age of sixty-five. In 1949 Hardin Craig accepted the position of Visiting Professor of English at the University of Missouri, where he taught until 1960. In 1960 Craig became Scholar in Residence at Stephens College, where he now teaches and writes while retaining his association with the University of Missouri as Professor Emeritus of English.
