Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Timothy E. CRANE

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History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement,
growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties,
cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories,
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Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881 p. 1141

Timothy E. Crane, otherwise known as Uncle Tim, lumberman and logger,
employs from seventy-five to one hundred men, and gets out from five to ten
million feet during the logging season.  Established in 1859.  He was born
in Eddington, Me., June 24, 1813; at the age of eighteen years, he began
working for his father, the Hon. Allin Crane, who followed lumbering,
milling, farming and mercantile business, and he has also been a member of
both houses of the Maine Legislature.  Timothy E. worked for his father
until he was twenty-one years of age, then worked out by the month four
years as a laborer, and part of the time as foreman, working in the lumber
woods during the winters, and summers improving the lumber streams.  He
left Maine in 1853 and went to northern New York, at Potsdam in the employ
of a Boston company, where he remained until September, 1856, at which
time, he started through the lakes on a steamer for Oshkosh, Wis., arriving
October, 1856.  He first handled stock during the winter, and next season
took charge of a gang mill and repairs of the same.  The next fall he was
employed on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, having charge of sixty men;
was in employ of railroad two years, after which, he went into the employ
of C.C. Washburn, on the Chippewa River, in the capacity of repairing
mills, manufacturing lumber, logging, etc., one and a half years.  He then
returned to Oshkosh, first as one of the company of James Jenkins & Co., in
lumbering extensively, after which, he engaged alone, and since which time,
he has been actively engaged.  He was married in Kenduskeag, Me., 1841, to
Miss Apphiah B. Gordon, of Hollis, York Co., same State.  They had three
children- Mary E. (deceased); Harried A., married to Mr. I.H. Lawrence, and
living in Mosinee, Wis.; Emma A., married to Mr. T. Swan and living in New
London.  Mrs. Crane died Oct. 7, 1854, in Orono, Me.  He was again married
in Milwaukee, Wis., July 5, 1870, to the widow of late Col. J. W. Scott,
who was shot in the battle of Chancellorsville.  Her maiden name was
Henrietta A. Wright, born near Sackett's Harbor, N.Y., being the first
female white child who lived in Oshkosh, coming there with her parents at
age of five years.  Her father's name was George Wright, who was the third
or fourth pioneer of Oshkosh.