JOHN W. B. CRANE - Biography

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This biography appears on page 670 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JOHN W. B. CRANE, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Union Grove; was born in
Somersetshire, England, November, 1830; came to Dover in the spring of
1852 and located here; he owns 265 acres land in Section 25, with a
large, comfortable residence, and large barns. He married, March 9,
1857, in Dover, Peggy Dale, who was born in Cornwall, Enojand, in 1823
they have five children- Paley W. D., born Nov. 29, 1857; Ella M. B.,
April 11, 1859; Laura N. D., July 16, 1861; Albert E. D., Sept. 21,
1863; Cyrus E., July 12, 1865; all single, and living home. Edward Dale,
father of Mrs. Crane, was born in Cornwall, England, in 1792, and came
to Dover in 1842. He married, in Cornwall, April, 1815, Peggy Harry, of
the same place, and had eight children- Edward, Alice, Thomas, Peggy,
Elizabeth, Nicholas H., Joseph and Henry, all born in Cornwall. They all
attend the Methodist Church.