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214 woman suffrage. Mem. Exec. Com. Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Unitarian.

CRANE, Ellie Stickel (Mrs. Frank Crane), 305 W. Fifty-fifth St., N.Y. City.

Born Hillsboro, Ill., 1864; dau. Joseph and Sarah (Scott) Stickel; ed. Ill. Woman's Coll., A.B. (mem. Phi Nu); m. Hillsboro, Ill., 1883, Rev. Frank Crane, D.D. (Congregational clergyman; author); children: Daphne Crane Drake (Mrs. Alfred Drake), Mae Crane (deceased), James L. Crane.

CRANE, Emily Hutchinson (Mrs. Richard Teller Crane), 2541 Michigan Av., Chicago, Ill.; summer, Jerseyherst, Lake Geneva, Wis.

Born N.Y. City, Sept. 12, 1869; dau. Dillon Beebe and Emily (Stewart) Hutchinson; ed. in Europe; m. Oct. 14, 1903, Richard Teller Crane (deceased). Interested in music; studied piano for years with Theodore Leschetizsy in Vienna and plays frequently in concerts for charity and club musicals, etc. Pres. Chicago Homes for Boys. Episcopalian. Democrat. Mem. Friends of Am. Art; life mem. Art Inst. Recreations: Golf, motoring. Mem. Fortnightly Club, the Young Fortnightly Club, the Woman's Athletic Club, Saddle and Cycle Club, South Shore Country Club, Lake Geneva Country Club. Favors woman suffrage.

CRANE, Julia Patterson (Mrs. Joseph Halsey Crane), Oakwood Village, Dayton, O.

Born Dayton, O.; dau. Jefferson and Julia (Johnston) Patterson; sister of John Henry Patterson, pres. Nat. Cash Register Co.; granddaughter of late Col. Robert Patterson, one of the Kentucky pioneers, on father's side, and of late Col. John Johnston, Indian Agent of U.S., on mother's side; ed. Sacred Heart School, N.Y. City; m. Dayton, O., April 24, 1885, Joseph Halsey Crane, grandson of Admiral Finley Schenck, and nephew of Gen. Robert C. Schenck, U.S. Minister to Court of St. James; children; Joseph Graham Crane, Jefferson Patterson Crane. Interested in the welfare work of Dayton.

CRANE, Katharine Priest, U.S. Legation, Peking, China.

Graduate Smith Coll., B.L. '97; student Bible Teachers' Training School, N.Y. City, 1903-05; student of history and Semitics, Columbia Univ., L904-07, M.A. '07; history and French (Columbia), 1909. Student sec. Y.W.C.A., N.Y. and New England School and Coll., 1899-1903. Mem. Am. Historical Soc.

CRANGLE, Leona Estelle Tarbell (Mrs. Benjamin Carroll Crangle), 1817 Fremont Av., South, Minneapolis, Minn.

Born Victor, N.Y., Nov. 14, 1875; dau. Eli K. and Cecelia (Dryer) Tarbell; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '98; student in kindergarten work in School of Pedagogy, Chicago (summer), 1900; m. Glencoe, Ill., Nov. 11, 1908, Benjamin Carroll Crangle; one son: John Carroll, b. Aug. 10, 1912. Ass't kindergarten director, Winona (Minn.) public school, 1900-05; director 1905-06; instructor (intermediate dep't) Lady Jane Grey School, Binghamton, N.Y., 1906-07.

CRAPSEY, Adelaide, 678 Peveril Av., Rochester, N.Y.

Teacher; b. N.Y. City; dau. Rev. Algernon Sidney and Adelaide (Trowbridge) Crapsey; ed. in schools of Rochester, N.Y.; Vassar Coll., A.B. '01. student in Rome, Italy, 1905, and 1908-10. Teacher in Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wis., 1903-05; Stamford, Conn., 1906-08.

CRATTY, Mabel, 600 Lexington Av., N.Y. City.

General Sec. Nat. Board Y.W.C.A.; b. Bellaire, O.; dau. Charles Campbell and Mary (Thoburn) Cratty; ed. public high school, Bellaire, O., Lake Erie Sem., Painesville, O., Ohio Wesleyan Univ. A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '90. Taught in Wheeling (W. Va.) Female Seminary; high school, Kent, O.; high school, Delaware, O.; principal of high school, Delaware, O., four years. Became associate gen. sec. Am. Com. Y.W.C.A. (headquarters Chicago); promoted gen. sec. Am. Com. Nat. Board Y.W.C.A. of U.S.A. (headquarters N.Y. City); exec. sec. Home Dep't since 1909. now gen. sec. of same. Interested in Camp Fire Girls of America (mem. Organizing Com). Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Favors woman suffrage.

CRAVATH, Agnes Huntington (Mrs. Paul D. Cravath), 105 E. Thirty-ninth St., N.Y. City; country estate, Locust Valley, L.I., N.Y.

Singer, retired to private life; b. Kalamazoo, Mich., 1862; dau. Charles E. and Fannie E. (Munsell) Huntington; ed. Mrs. Sylvanus Reed's School and for several years private tutoring abroad for music and for the languages and drawing; m. St. Thomas' Church, N.Y. City, Nov. 15, 1892, Paul D. Cravath (distinguished lawyer); one daughter: Vera Agnes Huntington Cravath, b. Aug. 28, 1895. Had a notable career in concert and opera as prima donna contralto; voice was not trained until she was taken abroad by her mother in 1880 to Dresden, where she studied three and one-half years with the famous maestro G. B. Lamperti. Made first public appearance in concert in Dresden, January, 1884, and a few weeks later sang at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig with the regular orchestra under direction of Carl Reinecke. Later appearances were in Stuttgart with Joseph Joaquim (renowned violinist), then with Pablo Sarasate (famous Spanish violinist), and Klintworth and his orchestra at the Sing-Akademie in Berlin; next appeared in a concert given by Alexandre Guilmant and M. Ed. Colonne and his orchestra at the Trocadero in Paris; later concerts in London in association with great musicians and conductors, including Sir Julius Benedict, Wilhelm Ganz, Alberto Rendegger, Sir George Grove and others, brought her much social attention, and at this time she received from the then Princess of Wales (now the Dowager Queen Alexandra) a beautiful brooch of precious stones. American debut was with the N.Y. Philharmonic Orchestra, under direction of Theodore Thomas, who engaged her for the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and other concerts, of which he was the conductor; also sang with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Gericke, the N.Y. Oratorio Soc. with Walter Damrosch, and in many of the most important festivals under the greatest conductors in America and Canada; sang one season with the Bostonians to gain experience in acting, singing in Martha, Giralda, Fra Diavolo, Les Mousquetaires de la Reine, Bohemian Girl, Mignon and others; then accepted an offer from Carl Rosa for an engagement in London to sing the role of Paul Jones, which she did with remarkable success for a long run, then came to America, singing the same role with her own company in the principal cities from N.Y. City to San Francisco. Retired to private life at the end of this tour, upon her marriage. Director in several and contributor to many charitable societies and settlement work; also for relief of and prevention of cruelty to animals. Director N.Y. Symphony Soc, Inst, of Musical Arts and others; mem. Colony Club. Episcopalian. Recreation: Music, singing, riding, painting, sewing. Against woman suffrage.

CRAWFORD, Emma Walke, Conshohocken, Pa.

Born Conshohocken, Pa., Nov., 1881; dau. Joseph Currie and Sarah P. (Wilson) Crawford; ed. Friends Central School, Philadelphia; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '03. Sec. of Guild of Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge; co-manager of Candidate Class of the Girls' Friendly Soc. of Calvary Church, Conshohocken. Editor Washington Chapel Chronicle, Valley Forge. Recreations: Riding, walking, music. Episcopalian.

CRAWFORD, Genevieve Buckland (Mrs. Francis Lindsay Crawford), 24 Ridge Rd., Summit, N.J.

Born Sing Sing, N.Y., Mar. 11, 1861; dau. Rev. R. Joseph Wales Buckland, D.D., and Emily (Wilson) Buckland; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '82; also diploma in Vassar School of Art, '82; m. N. Y. City, Dec. 17, 1885, Francis Lindsay Crawford, lawyer; children: Lesley Buckland, Constance, Dorothy, Lindsay. Interested in church and civic affairs in Summit, N.J. Episcopalian. Mem. Women's Univ. Club, N.Y. City. Recreation: Travel. Against woman suffrage.