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Author: Will T. Hale

   CHARLES H. DRANE. A valuable contribution to the industrial and commercial

activities of his native county has been made by Charles Haddox Drane, who is

one of the interested principals and the general manager of the Drane Foundry &

Supply Co., engaged in the general foundry and machine business at Clarksville,

the judicial center of Montgomery county. The enterprise of this concern is one

of most substantial order and Mr. Drane has gained distinctive prestige as one

of the representative business men and sterling citizens of Clarksville, his

circle of friends in his native county being limited only by that of his

acquaintances.



   Mr. Drane was born on the old homestead plantation, in seventh district,

Montgomery county, on the 9th of October, 1861, and is a son of William McClure

and Amelia Washington (Haddox) Drane, who was long numbered among the honored

and influential citizens of the county and concerning whom more specific mention

is made in the sketch of the career of his older son, Wesley T., on other pages

of this publication, so that a repetition of the family data is not demanded in

the present connection. Charles H. Drane was afforded the advantages of Stuart

College, at Clarksville, Tennessee, and also of the S. P. University, at

Clarksville, Tennessee, in which latter he was a student for several years. He

was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and continued to be

actively concerned with the great basic industry of agriculture until 1893, when

he became associated with his brother, Wesley T., in the foundry and machine

business at Clarksville. They built up a flourishing business, and their fair

and honorable dealings and progressive policies finally brought the enterprise

to such scope as to render expedient the formation of a stock company, which was

incorporated in 1902, under the present title of the Drane Foundry & Supply Co.

At that time they engaged in the manufacturing of the "Ground Hog" plow, which

was owned and controlled by the Drane brothers themselves, and they were most

successful in manufacturing and introducing this excellent implement. In 1908

this department of the business was closed out, by the sale of the patents and

all incidental rights, to the William J. Oliver Plow Manufacturing Company, of

Knoxville, Tennessee. Since that time the company has confined its operations to

general foundry and machine business and the handling of mill supplies,

including numerous appliances manufactured by the company. Mr. Drane has been

general manager of the company from the time of its organization and is now its

president and has handled its affairs with much discrimination and

administrative ability.



   In his civic attitude Mr. Drane is essentially liberal and public-spirited,

and while he has no predilection for political preferment along official lines

he is unwavering in his allegiance to the cause of the Democratic party. Both he

and his wife are earnest communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, and he

is a valued member of the vestry of the parish of Trinity church, in his home city.



   In the year 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Drane to Miss Lucy

Castner Gracey, who was born and reared in Montgomery county and who is a

daughter of Matthew and Marian (Castner) Gracey. Her parents passed the closing

years of their lives in Clarksville; and her father's vocation during the major

part of his active career was as member of the firm of F. P. Gracey & Bro. Mr.

and Mrs. Drane have three children, Charles Haddox, Jr., Mary Louise, and

William McClure.





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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913





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