oremost among the upbuilding forces in Redlands has been the Citrograph, which for ten years has been the champion of progress and advocated of improvement for this city and its surrounding territory. The first number was issued Saturday, July 16, 1887, from the office then located in the building at the southwest corner of State and Fifth streets. There it continued to be published until its own building was completed, August 1, 1889. It has commanded respect and admiration from the start for the beauty of its typographical make-up and its concise and pointed editorials. Originality and fearlessness have characterized it from the very first issue. As an authority on horticultural subjects, which are of the greatest importance to this section, it has had no superior in California. In its love for Redlands and faith in its future the Citrograph has never faltered.

Scipio Craig, editor and guiding spirit, by nature and training was admirably qualified for the work he has so well done through the Citrograph, and has made it one of the finest country weekly newspapers in the United States. Born in Ohio, February 5, 1848, he was taken to Indiana when 6 years of age, and lived in that state until 1870. He was educated at the public schools and at Hanover College. Dr. William Craig, his father, was a practicing physician and owner of a drug business in Indiana, and Scipio read medicine, sold drugs, manufactured baking powders, and learned the arts of the printer and publisher with the Muncie Times, the Eastern Indiana Courant and other journals. After coming to California, in 1870, he was connected with the Los Angeles Star and the San Bernardino Argus, and was in turn owner of the Colton Semi-Tropic, job printer and general utility man on the San Diego Union and foreman on the San Bernardino Index and Riverside Press. He was postmaster at Colton for a time, and, at intervals of other employment, took a turn at railroad postal work. He has been active in the interests of editorial associations. In 1879 he was the first vice-president of the Pacific Press Association, and was its president a year later. He was a member of the executive committee of the California Press Association for three years, and a member of the same committee of the National Press Association. For three consecutive years, also, he was president of the Editorial Association of Southern California, and has been a member of its executive committee since it was organized.

Mr. Craig has been twice married. His first wife was Sarah Nason Darracott, a native of Boston, to whom he was married September 30, 1868. She died at Redlands January 27, 1891. On November 12, 1892, at Vallejo, he was married to Mrs. Mary Lynde Hoffman. Mrs. Craig is associate editor of the Ctirograph, and is well known as a writer, and has been admitted to the practice of law in the courts of California and of the United States. Mr. Craig is a charter member of Redlands Lodge No. 300, F. & A. M., and also a charter member of Valley Lodge No. 27, K. of P. and was the first presiding officer.

(Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 70.)