From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 505
 
PITT NOBLE CRAVATH, only son of Prosper CRAVATH and Maria P. NOBLE, was born in 
town of Lima, Rock county, August 1, 1844; his parents moved the next year to 
Whitewater; he was graduated from the State University in '63; served as 
private of Company D, Fortieth Wisconsin Infantry, in '64; was graduated from 
Albany law school in '65; married Marcia DOWD at Waukesha, October 20, 1867; 
went to Louisiana in 1868 and served two years as assistant secretary of 
state.  Returning, after a short stay at Milwaukee, he went to Algona, Kossuth 
county, Iowa, where for five years he practiced law and editorship.  In 1879 he 
was again at Whitewater, and at once began to publish the Puddingstick - 
shortly renamed Chronicle.  At first it was an organ of loosely bound 
opposition to political and local policies supported by the Register.  In 1884 
he supported Cleveland - and, about this time, had Samuel BISHOP as a law 
partner.  He sold his paper a little later, and gave his time to law practice 
and to his duty as city surveyor.  His wife, who had been to him in some ways 
more than wives commonly are to husbands, died October 20, 1898.  He died 
November 28, 1898.  Mr. STEELE says of him: "Kind and genial in all his ways, 
he filled a peculiar niche in the affections of all who knew him."
 
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