Jefferson Davis CRANE

7 Sep 1861 -

Father: James E. CRANE
Mother: Lucy Margaret BEAVER

Family 1 : Kate SOMERS 


 
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 _James E. CRANE _______|
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|--Jefferson Davis CRANE 
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|                        _Jacob BEAVER _______|
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|_Lucy Margaret BEAVER _|
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                        |_Catherine (BEAVER) _|
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Notes:

From the History of Colusa and Glenn Counties, California, by C. D. McComish and Rebecca T. Lambert, Historic Record Co., Los Angeles, 1918, p. 295:
  Jefferson Davis Crane... Jefferson D. Crane was born in Sonoma County, September 7, 1861. His father, who crossed the plains to California in 1849 in one of the conventional ox-team trains, was James E. Crane, a native of Kentucky; while his mother, whose maiden name was Lucy M. Beaver, was a native of Ohio and came to California in 1851. On his arrival in this state, James E. Crane went to the mines for a time. Later he farmed near Santa Rosa, and afterwards near Salinas, in Monterey County. In 1870 he came to Los Angeles County, in what is now known as Orange County. There he died aged 76 years.
Brought to Los Angeles County in his boyhood, J. D. Crane attended the public schools there, and then went to Bakersfield, where he learned the trade of the blacksmith. He blew the bellows and swung the hammers like the ablest of those at the forge; and by 1880 he was ready to set up his shop in Bakersfield, where he continued as a smith for four years. He then moved to San Luis Obispo County, and for a year worked as a blacksmith there. In 1885 he arrived at Willows. Here he became associated with the Willows Foundry, with which he continued for some time. In 1895, he opened up a blacksmith's shop of his own, and this he conducted for three years. At the end of that time he took into partnership C. S. Schmidt, whereupon the firm became known as Crane and Schmidt...
In 1887, J. D. Crane was married to Miss Kate Somers, a native of Placer County, and the daughter of Charles R. Somers, a pioneer who came to California from Vermont, by way of the Isthmus, in 1854... His wife's maiden name was Mary E. Cameron. She is survived by a daughter, Pearl C., Mrs. Yerry McCaffrey, of McCloud, Cal., who is the mother of one daughter, Tyrel.
 		 

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