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Crane, Henry C

clergyman, poet, was born Nov. 30, 1845, in Norton, Mass.

He was ordained in 1873 as a congregational minister, and has filled pastorates at Franklin, Mass., Allegheny City, Pa., and Springfield, Mo. His poems have appeared from time to time in the religious and secular press.

Crane, Jonathan Townley

clergyman, author, was born June 18, 1819, in Elizabeth, N. J. He was a methodist clergyman of New Jersey, and the author of Methodism and its Methods: The Right Way; Essay on Dancing; Popular Amusements; Arts of Intoxication; and Holiness the Birthright of all God's Children. He died Feb. 16, 1880, in Port Jervis, N. Y.

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 was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1829 to 1837. He died Nov. 12, 1852, in Dayton, Ohio.

Crane, Richard T

manufacturer, was born in 1832, in Paterson, N. J. He incorporated the business with $1,000,000 capital as the Northwestern Manufacturing Co., reorganized it as the Crane Bro.'s Manufacturing Co. and later changed it to the Crane Co.

Crane, Sibylla Bailey

educator, composer, author, was born July 30, 1851, in Boston, Mass. She is a director and treasurer of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women; director of the Women's Educational and Industrial union; and the New England Woman's club. She is the author of a volume entitled Glimpses of the Old World.

Crane, Stephen

congressman. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776.

Crane, Stephen

author, was born in 1870 in New Jersey. He is a popular novelist of New York city, and 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; and Maggie, a story of slum life.

Crane, Thomas Frederick

educator, author, was born in 1844 in New York. He is a professor of Romance languages at Cornell university, and the author of Italian Popular Tales; The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones of Jacques de Vitry; Tableaux de la Revolution Française; Le Romantisme Française; La Société Française au Dixseptiéme Siècle; and Chansons Populaires de la France.

Crane, William Carey

clergyman, author, was born March 17, 1816, in Richmond, Va. He was a baptist clergyman of Texas, president of Baylor university in 1863-85, which was renamed Crane college in his honor in 1885. He was the author of Discourses; Life of Sam. Houston, and lesser works. He died Feb. 27, 1885, in Independence, Tex.

Crane, Zenas

manufacturer, was born Dec. 6, 1814, in Dalton, Mass. He is a partner in Z. and W. M. Crane, Crane and Co. and the Berkshire Mills Co., and also has an interest in the Dalton Shoe Co.

Cranfill, James Britton

clergyman, prohibitionist, was born Sept. 12, 1858, in Parker county, Tex. He is the editor of the Texas Baptist Standard, and has filled many prominent positions in the baptist denomination. In 1892 he was a candidate for vice-president of the United States on the prohibition ticket.

Cranford, John Walter

lawyer, congressman, was born near Grove Hill, Ala.

He was elected to the state senate in 1888 for a term of four years, and reelected in 1892. He served in the senate as chairman of judiciary committee No. 1, and was elected president pro tempore of the twenty-second senate. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat after one of the hottest joint canvasses ever known in the state.