Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Crane, Henry 1808 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Henry Crane, farmer, Stone Bluff, was born in 1808, in the State of Ohio, and
came to Indiana, settling on Osborn's prairie at a very early date. He is son of
Jonathan Crane, whose biography will appear in this work. Henry was married in
1835 to Eliza A. Sharp, a native of Kentucky, by whom he had eight children:
Jacob H., Lockey J., Kizah, Jonathan, George W., Joseph, Mary, and Jeptha. By
the death of his wife eight motherless children and a loving husband were left
to mourn the departure of a kind and exemplary mother and companion. Mr. Crane
was married a second time, to Evaline Simerman, with whom he is now living. They
have four children: James F., Elmira, William, and Franklin. Formerly he was a
tanner by trade, which he pursued twelve years in Fountain county. He owns a
fine farm, where he now resides, of 166 acres, and 177 acres of land in
Illinois. He now has in progress of erection upon the former farm a fine frame
dwelling. In religion he is a firm believer in spiritualism, and is a member of
the Progressive Friends Society in Van Buren township. Mr. Crane is one of the
old settlers who came here in very limited circumstances when the country was a
wilderness, and by close economy and great tenacity has been able to gather
around him enough of this world's goods to make his old age comfortable and happy.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

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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