Crane, William H
actor, was born April 30, 1845, in Leicester, Mass. He made his first appearance in 1876 in New York city; and has attained success in The Senator, a play written for him by David D. Lloyd, which has been played in all the large cities of the United States.
CRANE, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, naval officer, was born Feb. 1, 1776, in Elizabethtown, N. J. He was appointed navy commissioner in 1841, and in 1842 chief of the bureau of ordnance and hydrography. He died by his own hand March 18, 1846, in Washington.