Austin C. Craig (February 22, 1872 – February 11, 1949)[2] was an American historian born in Eddyton, New York. Being one of the first biographers of the Philippine national hero, José Rizal, a street was named after him in Sampaloc, Manila.
In 1910, he became the first Chair of the Department of History of the University of the Philippines.[3]
He was the holder of the Rizal professorial chair at the University of the Philippines in Padre Faura from 1912 to 1922. This chair was awarded him in recognition of his books on Rizal, the first being The Story of Jose Rizal, 1909, followed Lineage, Life and Labor of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot: A Study of the Growth of Free Ideas in the Trans Pacific American Territory. He died on February 11, 1949, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[2][4][5]
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^United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956