When Dexter Hildreth Craig was born on 22 September 1846, in Shelburne, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Jonathan Craig, was 46 and his mother, Jane Arnold, was 41. He married Nannie B. Weston on 22 December 1868. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1865. He died on 23 December 1934, in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.