BIOGRAPHIES:  Charles C. CRANE, Whitehall, Trempealeau Co., WI

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CHARLES C. CRANE, farmer, Post-office Whitehall; was born in New York
City, July 29, 1819. Left there in 1854 and came to Wisconsin, first
going to Johnstown, Rock Co., where he worked at his trade, which was
that of carpentering and building, until May 1856, at which time he
removed to Trempealeau, and there remained until 1862. He worked on the
first saw-mill which was built in the Village of Trempealeau; also built
the first church there, in 1851, for the Congregational Society; he
well remembers the big snow in the winter of 1856 and '57, when it was
nearly three months that the roads were impassable between Trempealeau
and Galesville. In 1862 he moved on to his farm, consisting of 120
acres, which he had entered in 1855, and where he still lives. In 1857
he saw a drove of nineteen elk on his place, this being the most of
them that he ever saw together at one time. But other game was very
plenty at that time, such as deer and prairie chickens, and fish were
to be had in abundance from the river which runs through his farm. This
stream used to be headquarters for some Indian tribe, and many relics
have been found, such as arrowheads, smoothing stones, etc. Mr. Crane
was married in 1843, by Rev. Robert Street, to Miss Hannah Wade, who
was born in Elizabethtown. N. J., in 1823. Their family consists of six
children-Julia A., now Mrs. Currier, of Minnesota; Anna M., now Mrs.
Breed, of Whitehall; Sarah R., William A. E., Lillian J. and Charles E.
W. He has held various offices in his town and county, having been
County Coroner three terms; a member of the Town Board of Lincoln, and
School Clerk for seventeen years; Justice of the Peace seven terms, and
Assessor for three terms, which office he still holds. He is a member
of the Masonic fraternity and was a charter member of the first lodge
in the county.


--Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 1040

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