Crane family papers 1819-1944 1860-1900

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Crane family papers 1819-1944 1860-1900

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/687

Members of the Crane family included Colonel Alexander Baxter Crane (1833-1930), soldier, lawyer and businessman of Indiana and New York; his wife, Laura Mitchell Crane; and their children, Elizabeth, Caroline, Helen, Aurelia, Laura, and Alexander. Colonel Crane served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, had a prominent law practice in New York City, and was active in Westchester County, N.Y., affairs. Collection consists of correspondence, journals, military records, legal papers, accounts, writings, photographs, and printed matter. Materials include correspondence of Colonel Crane and his wife with their children, relatives and friends; Civil War records of Alexander Crane; and miscellaneous legal papers, accounts and writings. Also correspondence, 1877-1933, of Elizabeth Crane and drafts of her literary works; correspondence, 1819-1852, of the Mitchell and Green families; correspondence, 1847-1884, 1889, of Caroline Crane Marsh and her husband, George P. Marsh, scholar and United States Minister to Italy; photographs and news clippings pertaining to the Crane family; and diaries, 1861-1864, and 1878-1879, of Caroline Marsh and others.

8.7 linear feet (19 boxes, 6 v.)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6314467

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Mitchell family

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Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882

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George Perkins Marsh was born in Woodstock, Vermont, educated at Dartmouth, and taught Greek and Latin in a local academy, then studied and practiced law. He was elected to the Vermont legislature, then to Congress in 1843, where he actively supported the Library of Congress and the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution. He was appointed Minister to Italy, 1861-1862. He was an active lecturer, and his book Man and Nature (1864) earns him credit today as the first environmentalist...

Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901

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Caroline Crane Marsh was the wife of George Perkins Marsh, Dartmouth College Class of 1820, envoy to Turkey, 1849-1853. From the description of Letters, 1849-1851, to Susan Marsh. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237352265 American poet. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Scarsdale and Rome, to John W. Field (3) and his wife (1), 1886 Apr 26-1886 Oct. 21 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270608646 ...

Green family

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Marsh, Aurelia Blair

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Crane, Elizabeth Green

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Crane family

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Members of the Crane family included Colonel Alexander Baxter Crane (1833-1930), soldier, lawyer and businessman of Indiana and New York; his wife, Laura Mitchell Crane; and their children, Elizabeth, Caroline, Helen, Aurelia, Laura, and Alexander. Colonel Crane served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, had a prominent law practice in New York City, and was active in Westchester County, N.Y., affairs. From the guide to the Crane family papers, 1819-1944, 1860-1900, (...

Crane, Helen, 1868-1930

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Helen Crane, composer and pianist, was born in New York in 1868. While in New York, she studied with German composers Philip and Xaver Scharwenka, and later moved to Berlin (1906-1917). Her composition Elegy for violoncello and pianoforte, op. 57 (1919) received an award from the National Federation of Music Clubs in 1944. From the description of Helen Crane papers, ca. 1892-1944. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122534794 From the guide to the Helen Crane pape...

Crane, Alexander Baxter, 1833-1930.

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Crane, Alexander Mitchell, 1871-1936?

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Crane, Laura Mitchell, 1833-ca. 1920.

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Crane, Laura Vernon, 1873-ca. 1960.

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