Crane family and Lillie family papers, 1833-1978 (bulk 1890s-1960s).

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Crane family and Lillie family papers, 1833-1978 (bulk 1890s-1960s).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712673727

Correspondence, financial papers, newsclippings, diaries, notebooks, biographical material, and genealogical items by and about Frances Crane Lillie, a daughter of Richard Teller Crane (founder of the Crane Company), her husband Frank Rattray Lillie, and other family members, especially materials of Frances' brother Charles Richard Crane, her younger sister Emily Crane Chadbourne, and Frances' daughter Margaret Crane-Lillie Gildea. Includes correspondence with Frank Lillie's relatives in England during both world wars. Topics discussed in the collection include family relationships; the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 in reminiscences of Mary Crane Russell; European travel in 1870s; courtships; Charles R. Crane's appointments as minister to China and his life-long involvement with Russia; Frances Crane Lillie's social welfare, socialist strike (1915), and Catholic activities; management of the University of Chicago's experimental projects at Buffalo Creek Farm (Wheeling, Ill.), which became the Childerley home for widows and children and was eventually transferred to the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago; the Crane Fund for Widows and Children; the Crane Company and its shift from family control (1930s onward). Correspondents include Ellen Gates Starr. Includes a typescript memoir by Charles Richard Crane (ca. 348 p., undated); book-length manuscripts of "Charles Richard Crane, Ulysses from Chicago" and "God and My Mother, A Biography of Frances Crane Lillie," both written by Mary Prentice Lillie Barrows. (Mary Prentice Lillie Barrows was the niece of Charles R. Crane and the daughter of Frances Crane Lillie.) Also includes financial papers of Emily Crane Chadbourne's longtime advisor and friend, Ellen N. LaMotte.

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