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Frank Irving, lumber merchant, Sept. 26, 1848, in Sharon, Ohio. He is a successful lumber merchant of Austin, Minn.; and has for more than a quarter of Crane,

was born

a century been identified with the business and prosperity of that city. He has served with distinction as mayor; and unanimously received the nomination and election to a second term by all the party conventions of that city. Crane, Frederick E., lawyer, jurist. In 1907 he was elected justice of the supreme court of New York for the term ending in interests

1930. Crane, Ichabod B., soldier, was bom in New Jersey. He became a colonel in the United States army. In 1851-53 he was governor of the Military asylum at Washington, B.C. He died Oct. 5, 1857, in Staten Island, N.Y. Crane, Jonathan Townley, clergyman, author, was born June 18, 1819, in Elizabeth, N.J. In 1868-73 he was presiding elder of the Newark district. He was the author of

Methodism

and its Methods; The Right on Dancing; Popular Amusements; Arts of Intoxication; and Holiness

Way; Essay

the Birthright of all God's Children. He died Feb. 16, 1880, in Port Jervis, N.Y. Crane, John, soldier, was born in Massachusetts. In 1775 he became captain in the Gridley's regiment Massachusetts artillery; in 1783 was brevetted brigadier-general. He died Aug. 21, 1805. Crane, Joseph H, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Elizabethtown, N.J. For many years he was president judge of the court of common pleas; and in 1839-37 he was a representative from Ohio to the twen-

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twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth congresses. He died Nov. 13, 1852, in Dayton, Ohio. Crane, Louis Burton, clergyman, theologian, author, was born in 1869, in Mt. Sterling, 111. In 1896-1902 he filled pastorates in the presbyterian ministry. In 1903-05 he preached in the congregational church; and was professor of new testament literature ty-first,

and interpretation in the Theological seminary of Chicago, 111. Since 1906 he has been a, clergyman of Easton, Pa. He is the author of The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the

Holy

Spirit.

Crane, Niron M., soldier, was born in New York City. In 1861 he was lieutenant-colonel in the twenty-third regiment New York volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. Crane, Oliver, clergyman, author, poet, was born July 12, 1832, in Montclair, N.J. He was the author of a critical translation of Virgil's ^neid; a volume of verse entitled Minto and Other Poems; and has 'prepared an elaborate Encyclopedia Class Record, as Class Secretary. He died in 1896 in Boston, Mass. Teller, Crane, Richard manufacturer, founder, was born Sept. 19, 1832, Paterson,

N.J. He worked at the machinist trade until 1855; and then started in business for himself in Chicago, 111. In 1865 he built a large factory, which became the Northwestern manufacturing company, then Crane broth-

manufacturing company, and now Crane company, of which he is president. ers

Crane, Sibylla Bailey, educator, composer, author, was born July 30, 1851, in Boston, Mass. She was a director and treasurer of the Massachusetts society for the university education of women; director of the Women's educational and industrial union; and of the New England woman's club. She is the author of a volume entitled Glimpses ot the Old World. She died in 1900 in Boston,

Mass. Crane, Stephen, congressman, was bom in Jersey. In 1774-76 he was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress. He died in New Jersey. Crane, Stephen, journalist, author, poet, was bom Nov. 1, 1871, in Newark, N.J. He was a noted journalist and war correspondent. He was the author of George's Mother; The Black Riders and Other Lines, a collection of wilfully eccentric verse; The Red Badge of Courage, a striking historical romance of the civil war in America; Maggie, a story of slum life; The Little Regiment; The Third Violet; and Open Boat; Active Service; Great Battles of the World. He died June 5, 1900, in Germany. Crane, Thomas Frederick, educator, author, was born July 13, 1844, in New York City. He is a professor of Romance languages at Cornell university. He is the author of Italian Popular Tales; The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones of Jacques de Vitry; Tableaux de la Revolution Francaise; Le Romantisme Francais; La SocifitS Francaise au Dix-septi6me Si6cle; Chansons Populaires de la France; and other works. Crane, W. M., governor. In 1900-03 he was the thirty-ninth governor of Massachusetts. Crane, Walter Beverley, journalist, author, was born Nov. 13, 1868, in Decatur, 111. In 1890-93 he was a journalist of the New York World; and since 1900 has been editor of the Broadway Magazine of New Y'ork City. He is the author of Odd Tales; and The Third Degree. He is also a song writer. Crane, William, merchant, founder, philanthropist, was born May 6, 1790, in Newark, N.J. He was the founder of the Richmond African baptist missionary society T/hich sent out Lott Gary to Liberia; and he taught the first school for blacks in Richmond. He was one of the originators of Richmond college, giving to it one thousand dollars. His benefactions to other religious objects were large. He died Sept. 28, 1866, in Baltimore, Md. Crane, William Carey, clergyman, author, was bom March 17, 1816, in Richmond, Va. He was a baptist clergyman of Texas ; president of Baylor university in 1863-85, which

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