Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Crane, Benjamin F. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Benjamin F. Crane, farmer, Stone Bluff. Samuel Crane, brother to his
grandfather, Jonathan Crane, served through the whole war of the revolution, and
his grandfather, Jacob Schnorf, was a soldier in the later years of that
struggle. In 1827 James Crane, father of our subject, and his father came to
Fountain county from Warren county, Ohio, probably most of the way on foot; the
father entered a piece of land and purchased another, and the two went back
together. James was married to Ann Schnorf November 1, 1828, and he and his
bride, spent their honeymoon, and made their bridal tour on horseback, 200 miles
through the new and sparsely settled country, crossing high streams, and
encountering and overcoming other obstacles, which gave them practical training
in frontier privation and adventure. They lived one season west of Stone Bluff,
on some land which Jonathan Crane had bought the year before, and the following
season moved up on the Shawnee and occupied the other piece he had purchased. At
this point, a mile above the mouth of Shawnee, Mr. Crane had a mill, and about
1835 or 1836 sold both land and mill to a company of Yankees, who afterward
built a distillery there. After this sale James Crane bought out the Hickman and
the Hanly heirs, and moved and settled on the place, where the subject of this
notice was born and now lives. They occupied a log cabin till 1841; that year
they built the brick house which is standing on the farm. In the summer of 1875
this old couple moved to Covington to live the remainder of their days, and both
died there soon after their removal: Mr. Crane, of erysipelas, July 14, aged
sixty-eight, and Mrs. Crane August 24, aged sixty-two. Mr. Crane was married
November 14, 1874, to Margaret E. Irvin. They have one child, James W., born
September 29, 1876. He and his wife belong to the Christian church. He owns 278
acres of good land, nearly 200 of which he cultivates, valued at $16,500. In
politics he is a republican.

Additional Comments:
Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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