George W. Crane Biography


	This biography appears on page 630 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				GEORGE W. CRANE. 

	George W. Crane, who is engaged in farming on section 22, Concord 
township, Lake county, was born August 30, 1892, in the county which is 
still his home, his parents being George V. and Jennie (Prazly) Crane. 
The father was a farmer by occupation and in the year 1880 came with 
his family to Dakota territory, where he homesteaded land on section 
22, Concord township, Lake county, and secured a tree claim on section 
21. He then bent his energies to the development of a farm and to its 
further cultivation and improvement he devoted his remaining days, his 
life's labors being terminated in death on the 24th of November, 1914, 
his remains being interred in Winfred. He was originally from the state 
of New York but before coming to South Dakota had lived for some time 
in Minnesota, where he had worked as a farm hand. His widow survives 
and now makes her home with her son George upon the old homestead, 
which comprises three hundred and twenty acres of rich and productive 
land. In the family were five children, two sons and three daughters, 
all of whom are yet living. 

	George W. Crane was educated in the public schools of Brookings 
and then returned to the home farm and assisted his father. After his 
father's demise he rented the place and is now cultivating it in a most 
capable and successful manner. He also owns one hundred and sixty acres 
of land on section 28, Concord township, which he rents. Upon the home 
place he has sixteen head of cattle, eleven head of horses and one 
hundred and sixty head of hogs and he derives a substantial income from 
the annual sale of his stock. In the cultivation of the fields he 
employs progressive and modern methods and his labors are bringing him 
a substantial return. 

	On the 11th of February, 1914, Mr. Crane was married to Miss 
Josephine Cowden, a daughter of John R. Cowden, who removed from Iowa 
to South Dakota. They have one child, Delbert V. The parents are 
Congregationalists in religious faith and in his political belief Mr. 
Crane is a republican. He keeps well informed on the questions and 
issues of the day, so that he is ever ready to support his position by 
intelligent argument. He endorses the good roads movement, which is 
doing so much to improve the highways of the state, and he is 
interested in every phase of South Dakota's development, contributing 
in as far as possible to the work of general improvement.