City: Chattanooga
CRAIG, Edward Burr, vice-president and manager Volunteer State Life Ins. Co.; born Giles Co., Tenn., Aug. 12, 1859; son William Jackson and Virginia (Abernathy) CRAIG; Scotch descent; educated Webbs’ School; Knight Templar Mason; treasurer of Tenn. and insurance commissioner 1893-1901; went from Webbs’ School to People’s National Bank, Pulaski, Tenn., where he became cashier 1886; remained cashier of bank until ’93; organized Volunteer State Life Ins. Co., with home office at Chattanooga in 1903, and was elected vice-president and manager; author of the “Sinking Fund Act” to retire part of state’s indebtedness, which was passed in ’99; author of “General Insurance Act” of 1895.
