Notes for Jonathan Townley CRANE

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Notes for Jonathan Townley CRANE

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CRANE, Jonathan Townley, clergyman, born in Connecticut Farms, near Elizabeth. New
Jersey, 18 June 1819; died in Port Jervis, New York, 16 February 1880. He was graduated
at Princeton in 1843 in 1844 was licensed to preach, and was admitted to the New Jersey
annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1845. In 1846 he was stationed as
pastor at Hope, Warren County, New Jersey, and in 1847 at Belvidere in the same state. In
1848-'9 he preached at Orange, New Jersey, and in June 1849, was elected president of the
Conference seminary at Penning-ton, New Jersey, which office he resigned in 1858 to
assume the pastorate of Trinity Church, Jersey City. In 1868-'72 he was presiding elder
of the Newark, New Jersey, district. Dr. Crane was a delegate to the genera1 conferences
of 1860, 1864, 1868, and 1872. He was an able preacher, contributed largely to the
periodical literature of his Church, and published "Essay on Dancing " (1848);
"The Right Way, or Practical Lectures on the Decalogue" (1853); "Popular
Amusements" (1869); "Arts of Intoxication" (1870); "Holiness the
Birthright of all God's Children" (1874); and ":Methodism and its Methods"
Father of the famous author Stephen Crane.
Bio courtesy of Andree C. (Brown) Swanson.
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14 children, 9 of whom survived to adulthood:
1. Mary Helen Crane (1849–1933), wrote children stories for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Gazette[20]
2. George Peck Crane (1850–1903), Postal Service employee, railroad employee.[21]
3. Jonathan Townley Crane, Jr. (1853–1908), known as "Townley". Reporter in Asbury Park, New Jersey.[22]
4. William Howe Crane (1854–1926), attended Centenary, graduated from Albany Law, had an independent law practice in Port Jervis, New York.[23]
5. Agnes Elizabeth Crane (1856–1884), teacher.[24]
6. Edmund Brian Crane (1857–1922).[25]
7. Wilbur Fiske Crane (1858–1918), known as "Burt".[26]
8. Luther Peck Crane (1863–1886), flagman and brakeman for Erie Railroad; fell in front of an ongoing train.[27]
9. Stephen Crane (1871–1900), author.

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