Biography

11/21/1818 - 03/04/1891

CRANE, Robert, a Representative from Clinton and Lycoming Counties; born, November 12, 1818 in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pa.; corporal, Company E, 173rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1863, Civil War); merchant; elected, burgess, Jersey Shore (1848-1849); railroad contractor; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1860 term, not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1861 term; vice president and director, First National Bank of Columba; president, Delaware River and Lancaster Railroad Company; director, Susquehanna Iron Company; superintendent, Reading and Columbia Railroad; engaged, insurance and real estate business; died, March 4, 1891 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Bethel Cemetery, Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.