Frederick Baron Crane 1872-1946

CRANE, MELLEN, DANA, WHITING, LISLE, SALZMAN, BRADEN

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Date: 7/27/2005 at 19:46:47

Mt. Pleasant News
Monday, Feb. 25, 1946

Memorial Service for F.B. Crane

The memorial service for the late F.B. Crane was held at the Crane Funeral Home Thursday afternoon, Feb. 21, conducted by the Rev. Laura Galer. The pallbearers were John Budde, Wm Hoaglin, Ben Seeley, F.W. Edwards, Russell Weir, Eugene McCoid. Burial was in the Crane lot at Forest Home.

Frederick Baron Crane was born April 22, 1872 in Mt. Pleasant, the son of Baron H. Crane and Abigail [Mellen] Crane and was one of nine children who all grew to adult years in this city. He graduated from the high school and then completed a course at the LaPorte School of Watchmaking at LaPorte, Ind., having chosen to follow the craft of his uncle, a leading jeweler in Mt. Pleasant. After a brief period of experience in the Crane store, Frederick Crane, with his young friend Victor Rukgaber in 1893 entered on a partnership as jewelers in Chicago.

In 1895 he returned to Mt. Pleasant, bought the business of his uncle Herbert Crane and entered on the career of business and citizenship that has made him well known throughout this part of Iowa. Until physical weakness necessitated his retirement, Mr. Crane was a most familiar figure among business men in Mt. Pleasant and his store has set a high standard. He also served his community as a director of the public schools, as secretary of the Hospital Board from the time it was created, and as director of the Henry Co. Savings Bank. He was a Mason and a member of Rotary. The interest he kept in all these activities for a half century makes his absence felt in community life.

In 1894 he was united in marriage with Miss Edna Dana of Burlington, and to this union three children were born. Mrs. Arthur Salzman, Mrs. Waldo Braden and Baron D. Crane, his father's partner and business successor. After long years of active happiness and a few years of invalidism, Mr. Crane passed from this life Feb. 19. Of the nine brothers and sisters in his early home there now survive only three, Mrs. James T. Whiting, and Ralph K. Crane in Mt. Pleasant and Mrs. Edwin Lisle of Clarinda.

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