Thirteenth Generation

2429. Frank Irving Crane was born on 26 September 1848 in Sharon Center, Medina Co., Ohio, USA. He appeared in the census in 1870 in Lansing, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. He appeared in the census in 1905 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. Frank died on 15 January 1910 at the age of 61 in Rochester, Olmsted Co., Minnesota, USA. He was buried in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. He appeared in the census 1880/1885 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. Frank appeared in the census 1895/1900 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. He lived in Lansing, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA 1865/1875. Minnesota, Deaths and Burials
Name: Frank Irving Crane
Gender: Male
Burial Place: Austin, Minn.
Death Date: 15 Jan 1910
Death Place: Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota
Age: 61
Birth Date: 1849
Father's Name: Wm. A. Crane
Mother's Name: Laura Chatfield
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B02081-0
System Origin: Minnesota-EASy
GS Film number: 2118579
Reference ID: cn 8849
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Mayor at some time.
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HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY, 1911.
Frank Irving Crane, now deceased, was one of the well-known citizens of Austin, and well deserved the honor and esteem in which he was held.
He was born in Sharon, Medina county, Ohio, September 26, 1848, and lived there until 1863, when his father, William A. Crane, sold his homestead on which he had resided for thirty years and came to Minnesota.
The family came across the lake to Milwaukee, and from there came to this state in an emigrant wagon. All of the family were present except Eugene, who left the party at Madison, Wis., to go to Ann Arbor to continue his law studies. The party crossed the line between Iowa and Minnesota on Frank's fifteenth birthday.
The Crane family spent the winter of 1863 with Frank's uncle, William Chatfield, then living near Spring Valley. In the spring they came to Austin, reached here March 16, 1864, located in the log house on the farm that is now the property of the Oakwood Cemetery Association and in 1865 built the brick house which still stands to the west of the cemetery.
Frank worked on the farm and attended district school. In 1872 he joined his brother, Eugene B. Crane, now of Minneapolis, and worked with him as appraiser of Northern Pacific lands, and later attended a business college in Minneapolis. From there he entered the old Mower County Bank to learn more of business methods. In 1873 he went to work for William Richards, father of Mrs. Lafayette French, who conducted a lumber yard near the present C., M. & St. Paul station. Bray & French at that time also had a lumber business here, near the corner of Franklin and Water streets. In 1876 Mr. Crane succeeded Bray & French, and continued in the lumber business until the time of his death.
Mr. Crane took a prominent part in all public movements, belonged to the old Board of Trade and the Booster Club, was a member of the Board of Education, was appointed on the first Library Board of the city, and was its president from its organization until his death.
One of his most distinguished services was as mayor. He was elected in 1896, and it was due to his efforts that the finances of the city were put in a greatly improved condition. So great was the favor with which his official acts met that he was re-elected without opposition in 1897.
He was a high degree Mason, and also belonged to the Elks. The subject of this sketch was married March 14, 1880, to Sylvia Pettibone, of Bainbridge, Ohio. Mr. Crane and his wife were born within forty miles of each other, but never met until she came to Austin to visit her sister, Mrs. H. H. Kent. To them were born four children: Leah, Ralph, Clara and Florence.
Mr. Crane lived in Austin from 1864 until the time of his death in 1910, a period of forty-six years, and his mind was a storehouse of first-hand knowledge of local history. Few events happened here in the half century of which he had no mental record.
He had a wide acquaintance in his home town, his county and surrounding towns. He knew and called his friends by name in his fraternal fashion, and never forgot them. One needed to go about with him to realize the number of friends who gave him hearty greeting wherever he went. His hospitality was genuine and extended alike to rich and poor. His keen, practical mind gave him business sagacity and a cool judgment to discriminate between the real and the sham, while his warm heart taught him the worth of men and helped him to forget their failings.
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USA Census, 1880
Name: Frank I Crane
Event Place: Austin, Mower, Minnesota
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: Lumber Dealer
Relationship to Head of Household: Other
Birth Year (Estimated): 1849
Birthplace: Ohio
Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Frank I Crane Other M 31 Ohio
Sylvia E Crane Other M 26 Ohio
George Telley Other M 27 New York
Jay L Truesdell Other M 18 Minnesota
K Walter Other M 30 Germany
District: 172 , Sheet Number and Letter: 596B , GS Film Number: 1254626 , Digital Folder Number: 004241847 , Image Number: 00924
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Minnesota, State Census, 1895
Name: T I Crane
Event Place: Austin city, Ward 01, Mower, Minnesota
Age (Original): 46y
Birth Year (Estimated): 1849
Birthplace: Ohio
Race (Original): W
Gender: Male
Page Number: 22
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
T I Crane M 46y Ohio
Selbia Crane F 42y Ohio
Leah Crane F 11y Minnesota
Ralf Crane M 8y Minnesota
Clara Crane F 6y Minnesota
Florence Crane F 3y Minnesota
Ellen Torgeson F 29y Norway
Gerusha Kent F 56y Ohio
Line Number: 8 , Family Number: 179 , GS Film number: 000565790
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USA Census, 1900
Name: F. Crane
Event Place: Austin Township Austin city Ward 1, Mower, Minnesota
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Years Married: 20
Birth Date: Sep 1848
Birthplace: Ohio
Marriage Year (Estimated): 1880
Father's Birthplace: Ohio
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
F. Crane Head M 52 Ohio
Sylvia Crane Wife F 48 Ohio
Leo Crane Son M 16 Minnesota [Shoulr be Leah Daughter, error on original]
Ralph Crane Son M 13 Minnesota
Clara Crane Dau F 11 Minnesota
Florence Crane Dau F 9 Minnesota
Mary Larson Servant F 25 Denmark
Louise Minert Lodger F 23 Iowa
District: 81 , Sheet Number and Letter: 11B , Household ID: 236 , Line Number: 93 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: T623 , GS Film Number: 1240776 , Digital Folder Number: 004120292 , Image Number: 00589

Frank Irving Crane and Sylvia C / E Pettibone were married on 14 March 1880. Sylvia C / E Pettibone was born in December 1852 in Ohio, USA. She appeared in the census in 1870 in Ohio, USA. She died on 5 November 1927 at the age of 74 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. Sylvia was buried in Oakwood Cmtry., Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. She appeared in the census 1895/1905 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. She appeared in the census 1910/1920 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. Sylvia lived in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA 1880/1885. Father b abt 1806, Connecticut
Mother b abt 1815, Vermont
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Some census records have her forename as Selbia.
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Find A Grave Memorial# 20837076
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USA Census, 1870
Name: Sylvia Pettibone
Event Place: Ohio
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Race: White
Birth Year (Estimated): 1852-1853
Birthplace: Ohio
Page Number: 15
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Rufus Pettibone M 64 Connecticut
Betsey Pettibone F 55 Vermont
Henry Pettibone M 21 Ohio
Sylvia Pettibone F 17 Ohio
Joseph Beeler M 50 Switzerland
Household ID: 126 , Line Number: 31 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: M593 , GS Film number: 000552703 , Digital Folder Number: 004277796 , Image Number: 00077
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Minnesota, State Census, 1905
Name: Sylvia P Crane
Event Place: Austin, Ward Number: 01, Mower, Minnesota
Gender: Female
Age: 51
Race: White
Birthplace: Ohio
Birth Year (Estimated): 1854
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Page: 76
Line Number: 34 , GS Film number: 928797 , Digital Folder Number: 004520293 , Image Number: 00160
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USA Census, 1910
Name: Syblia Crane
Event Place: Austin Ward 1, Mower, Minnesota
Gender: Female
Age: 57
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1853
Birthplace: Ohio
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Vermont
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Syblia Crane Head F 57 Ohio
Leah H Crane Dau F 26 Minnesota
Ralph P Crane Son M 22 Minnesota
Clara S Crane Dau F 21 Minnesota
Florence L Crane Dau F 18 Minnesota
Carrie Anderson Servant F 22 Norway
Hary Emery Servant M 18 Minnesota
District: 79 , Sheet Number and Letter: 7B , Household ID: 155 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: M1283 , GS Film number: 1374725 , Digital Folder Number: 004330236 , Image Number: 00047
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USA Census, 1920
Name: Sylvia Crane
Event Place: Austin Ward 1, Mower, Minnesota
Gender: Female
Age: 67
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Own or Rent: Own
Birth Year (Estimated): 1853
Birthplace: Ohio
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Vermont
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Sylvia Crane Head F 67 Ohio
Clara Crane Dau F 29 Minnesota
Florence Wright Dau F 27 Minnesota
Arthur Wright Son-in-law M 28 Michigan
Sylvia Wright Granddaughter F 0 Minnesota
Rudy Vilaz Servant F 17 Iowa
District: 79 , Sheet Number and Letter: 34B , Household ID: 719 , Line Number: 54 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: T625 , GS Film number: 1820846 , Digital Folder Number: 004312194 , Image Number: 00658

Frank Irving Crane and Sylvia C / E Pettibone had the following children:

4297	i.	Leah H Crane was born in January 1884 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. She died after 1910 at the age of 26. She appeared in the census 1900/1910 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. Leah lived in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA 1885/1895. Minnesota, State Census, 1905 Name: Leah H Crane Event Place: Austin, Ward Number: 01, Mower, Minnesota Gender: Female Age: 21 Race: White Birthplace: Minnesota Birth Year (Estimated): 1884 Father's Birthplace: Ohio Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut Page: 76 Line Number: 35 , GS Film number: 928797 , Digital Folder Number: 004520293 , Image Number: 00160
4298	ii.	Ralph Pettibone Crane was born on 21 April 1887 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. He appeared in the census in 1895 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. He died on 4 October 1947 at the age of 60 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. Ralph was buried in Oakwood Cmtry., Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. He appeared in the census 1900/1910 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. Find A Grave Memorial# 20837294 ===== HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY, 1911. Ralph P. Crane, lumberman, of Austin, was born in this city April 21, 1887, son of Frank I. and Sylvia (Pettibone) Crane, the pioneers. He received his education in the Austin schools, and graduated from the Austin high school in 1905, afterward taking courses at Carleton College, Northfield; the University of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, and the Cornell University, at Ithaca, N.Y., taking law studies in the latter institution. In July, 1909, he took up the lumber business in Austin with his father, and at the time of the latter's death took full charge of the business. While at college he was admitted to the fellowship of the Alpha Delta Phi, one of the Greek letter fraternities, and since then he has allied himself with the Masonic order. He is president of the Austin and Mower County Automobile Club and also a member of the Austin Commercial Club.
4299	iii.	Clara S Crane was born in April 1889 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. She appeared in the census in 1895 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. She appeared in the census in 1920 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA. Clara died before 1994 at the age of 105. She appeared in the census 1900/1910 in Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota, USA.
+4300	iv.	Florence L Crane.