Crane, Oliver
clergyman, oriental and classical scholar, was born July 12, 1822, in Montclair, N. J. He prepared for college in his native city; graduated from Yale university in 1845; and from the Union Theological seminary in 1848.
He then spent several years in the orient, and subsequently filled pastorates in Huron and Waverly, N. Y., and in Carbondale, Pa.
G He is the author of a critical translation of Virgil's Æneid; a volume of verse entitled Minto and Other Poems; and has prepared an elaborate Encyclopedia Class Record, as Class Secretary; besides many articles on various subjects. He died in 1896, in Boston, Mass.