Bio of CRANE, Jay W., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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JAY W. CRANE - Vol III, pg 668
Jay W. Crane, a successful attorney and active political worker of Minneapolis,
was born at Perry, New York, a son of the Rev. Stephen and C. Jane Crane, the
former a minister of the Universalist church for more than four decades. Rev.
Crane is now deceased and his widow makes her home with her son Jay in
Minneapolis.
In the Empire state Jay W. Crane spent the early years of his life and attended
the public schools in the acquirement of his elementary education. He continued
his studies in the high school at Hillsdale, Michigan, until graduated therefrom
and after completing his preparatory work he entered Lombard College at
Galesburg, Illinois, from which he was also in due time graduated. Subsequently
he took up the study of law and in 1890 was admitted to the bar at Columbus,
Ohio. Mr. Crane had been engaged in teaching in Illinois and in the public
schools of Norwalk, Ohio, in which city he continued as an instructor until
1891. Through the intervening period of thirty-two years, however, he has
continuously devoted his attention to general law practice and has been accorded
an extensive and distinctively representative clientage. His name figures in
connection with much important litigation and he enjoys the high regard,
confidence and good will of his professional colleagues and contemporaries.
Aside from his activity as a member of the Minneapolis bar, Mr. Crane has been
an earnest worker in the ranks of the republican party and is associated with
several organizations looking toward the advancement of its interests. He has
served as president of the Fifth Ward Republican Club and for a number of years
was a member of the Hennepin County Republican Campaign Committee. His name is
on the mem­bership rolls of the Minneapolis Commercial Club and the Minneapolis
Athletic Club and he also belongs to the First Universalist Society, of which he
is clerk. He is widely and favorably known in social as well as professional and
political circles of his adopted city, enjoying the friendship and esteem of all
with whom he has come into contact in the varied relations of life.