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Institute, Martinsburg, New York, and stud- ied music in Boonville, this state. May 30, 1871, she married John Henry Salmon, born in Turin, May 30, 1841, son of John and Lu- cretia (McDonald) Salmon ( sce Salmon III). After her marriage she ably assisted her husband in managing the Salmon home- stead farm in Turin for a number of years, and upon relinquishing that property they purchased the estate in Martinsburg known as the Alfred Arthur farm, containing some one hundred and eight acres. This prop- erty they subsequently increased to about . one hundred and sixty acres by the addition of adjoining land, and they gave their spe- cial attention to dairy farming, keeping an average of twenty-five cows. Mr. Salmon was an unusually capable and industrious farmer who availed himself of modern agri- cultural methods, and he applied them with success. He possessed numerous commend- able qualities, and his death, which occurred June 12, 1906, was sincerely regretted by his fellow-townsmen. He was a member of Glenfield Grange. Patrons of Hus- bandry, and in politics was a Democrat. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Sal- mon has assumed the entire charge of the farm and is displaying much natural abil- ity in its management. She was formerly a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, but became a Christian Scientist and is now a member of the "Mother Church" in Bos- ton. Mrs. Salmon is the mother of three cluldren: 1. Erdine, born December 2. 1875; married William Moffatt. 2. Ernest. June 141. 1877. 3. Grover C., August 29. 1886. She also has three grandchildren : John Moffatt, born in Martinsburg. April 19. 1899. Isabelle, born in Montreal, Prov- ince of Quebec, January 21. 1906. Gloria Lavinia, born in Martinsburg. June 25, 1909.
The emigrant Cranes were de- CRANE scended from the Cranes of Chilton Hall, a moated manor of some distinction near Sudbury, Suffolk,
England, fifty miles from London, and twenty miles from Coggeshall, Essex, Eng- land. They were lords of the manor, and the direct descendants of Lord Arundel's family, who inherit the blood of Charle- magne and Hugh Capet.
Dame Arundel's will was recorded and proved in 1521 at Sudbury, and is a curious old document. She bequeathed money for wax tapers for the day of her burying, and afterward to use at mass; also money for bills to ring dirges at her obsequies. "Her best blue velvet gown to Chilton Church to make vestments for a deacon". "Her best black velvet gown, furred with marten and lined with velvet", fell to a lot of relatives.
In Chilton Church is an elaborate marble monument to the memory of Sir Robert Crane, who was knighted by James I. This monument represents Sir Robert in armor, kneeling with clasped hands; his two wives are represented beside him. They, too, are kneeling in devotional attitude, with clasped hands. The inscription mentions Dorothy, the first wife, who lived with her husband "in great love and amity, and willingly yielded up this life in expectation of a bet- ter, April eleventh, 1624".
"If thee readest with eies (eyes) dry Thou of marble art, not I."
Susan is the name of the second wife. but she has no poetry dedicated to her.
John Crane, a brother of Sir Robert, was clerk of the kitchen to James I., a position of much honor. A Robert Crane, of Suf- folk, was chosen by King Charles IL., 1666. to be made Knight of the Royal Oak.
The Cranes of England have borne five coats-of-arms, whether all of one family is uncertain. The armorial bearings of the emigrant ancestor of the Cranes are de- scribed in heraldry as AArgent, a fesse or bar between three crosses crosslet, gules : crest, a crane. Only one coat-of-arms has a motto, that being : "Qui pascet carvos non obliviscitur grus", which was inspired by a neighbor's motto: "Deus pascil corvus".
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Samuel and Jasper Crane emigrated to this country during the time of Winthrop's call to colonization. They lived at first at Braintree, Massachusetts, Jasper removing to the New Haven colony, and afterward to Newark colony, then called Milton. Sam- uel remained at Braintree, or Mt. Wallas- ton, now Quincy, Massachusetts. His son. Henry Crane, was born in England. in 1621, and came with his father to Brain- tree, where he was selectman in 1640 on the same board with Stephen Kinsley, who in 1654 was living at Dorchester on a farm adjoining the homestead of his two sons-in- law, Henry Crane and Anthony Culliver.
Jasper Crane was one of the prominent men of New Haven colony in 1637. and one of the original settlers of Newark. New Jersey. He was one of the committee of safety to protect the New Haven colony against DeRuyter, the Dutch admiral who cruised in Long Island Sound and threatened the settlers. During the revolutionary war the Connecticut colony. to increase the fa- cilities for coast defense, put into service three boats-one named "The Crane". in honor of the family who stood so loyally by the colony. It was sent to New York to assist in her defense under General Wash- ington. Even the exact cost of "The Crane" has been recorded. 1,01 3 pounds six shillings ten pence.
Of Samuel's family who remained in Braintree. Elizabeth Crane, supposedly his wife, was a member of the Dorchester church in 1641.
(I) It may be assumed that from If !! until 1654 Henry Crane was living in Dor- chester with his parents or relatives. He bought a farm of one hundred twenty acres in Dorchester. September. 1654. or earlier. and a road was laid out to his house over Milton Hill from Braintree to Roxbury through Dorchester on that date. The road was to the southwest of his house, and fol- lowed the "old beaten wave". This house was on what is now Adams street. on the north side, at East Milton, at the rear and
between the houses of William G. Baxter and E. B. Andrews. The Pierce house was built in front of it. That section has been known as "Crane's Plain". He was part owner of the ironworks of Braintree and one of the workers. When the general court prohibited the holding of Indians as servant, or slaves, he had a man, woman and child in his service, and an autograph letter from him to the general court is to be seen in the state archives (vol. 30, p. 239) in reply to an order for him to send away the three Indians. It is well phrased and written. asking for more time to carry out the will of the court. The births of his first two children are not recorded at Dor- chester. He was a farmer most of his life. In 1685 he bought land of Moses Payn, inn- holder, of South Boston, and bought and sold various other lots of land. He was a prominent citizen of Milton, selectman in 1679-80-81: and one of the committee in charge of the meeting house. Ile married (first) 1665. Tabitha, daughter of Stephen Kinsley. She died in 1681, and he married (second ) 1683. Elizabeth -. He died
March 21. 1700. at Milton. Children: I. Benjamin, born 1656; removed to Connec- ticut colony : was one who opposed Edmond Andros when he demanded the surrender of the charter of Connecticut, and showed his great independence by not marrying until thirty years of age, which was against the order of the general court of the colony. Ile was at the age of eighteen years in Cap- tain Johnson's company in King Philip's # m and was wounded at the Narragansett Swamp. September 19, 1675. 2. Stephen. born 1657. 3. Henry, Jr. 4. John. born at Dorchester. January 30. 1658-59: mar- ried. December 13. 1686: residing at Taun- ton. 5. Elizabeth. born August 14. 1663: married (first) at Milton, May 23. 1682. Eleazer Gilbert, of Taunton : he died March 20. 1700. and she married (second ) George Town-end. of Taunton, Massachusetts. 6. El enezer, mentioned below. 7. Mary. born November 22. 1666; married. March 28.
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1600. Samuel Hackett, of Taunton. 8. Mercy, born January 1. 1668. 9. Samuel. born June 8, 1669, died September 14. 1669. 10. Anna, born about 1670, resided at Taun- ton.
(II) Ebenezer, son of Henry Crane, was born August 6, 1665, and died in 1725. He enlisted with the company which went with Sir William Phipp's expedition to Quebec in August, 1690. under Col., John Withing- ton, and was one of the twenty-nine men who returned of the seventy-five who went from Dorchester. For his service in Can- ada he had a grant of Dorchester lands. now Ashburnham, Massachusetts, and many de- scendants have lived there. He remained in that part of Braintree. now the city of Quincy. He married. November 13. 1689, Mary Tolman, born November 26. 1671. daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (John- son ) Tolman, granddaughter of Thomas Tolman, who came from England in 1635. and was one of the first settlers of Dorches- ter. Children, born at Braintree: 1. Eben- ezer. November 21. 1692. 2. Ezekiel. No- vember 28, 1694. 3. Daniel, February. 1696. 4. Tabitha. December 27. 1697. 5. Mary, July 11, 1699. 6. Elizabeth, Tanti- ary 17, 1702. 7. Lydia. April 2. 1703. 8. Edward, August 12. 1705. 9. Henry, Feb- ruary 29. 1708. mentioned below. IO. Thomas, May 12, 1710. 11. Benjamin, Oc- tober 22, 1712. 12. Abijah. November 2. 1714.
(III) Henry, son of Ebenezer Crane, was born at Braintrec. He married Melatiah Voce, born 1710, die November 20. 17-9. daughter of Captain Nathaniel Vose (3) : Edward Vose ( 2) ; Robert Vose ( I). Wife of Captain Nathaniel Vose was Mary Bel- cher (3): Samuel Belcher (2): Gregory Belcher ( 1). Children. born at Milton and Canton : 1. Elijah, born at Milton. Jan- tary 20. 1727 : mentioned below. 2. Mela- tiah, May 6. 1728. at Canton. 3. Vose. February 15, 1730. 4. Henry, born at Mil- ton, February 18, 1737. 5. Mary, February 16. 1748.
(IV) Elijah, son of Henry Crane, was born at Milton, January 29. 1728. He lived at Milton and Canton. He married. in 1756, Sarah Houghton, born September 28, 1733, died 1819, daughter of Ebenezer Houghton (3). Joseph (2), Joseph ( I ), and Susan Evans of Dorchester. Children : 1. Ebenezer: soldier in the revolution in Captain James Endicott's company. of Stoughton. Col. Lemuel Robinson's regi- mient. on the Lexington Alarm; also in Cap- tain Peter Talbot's company. Col. Robin- son's regiment. April. 1775 : also in Captain Simeon Leach's company. Colonel Benjamin Gill's regiment, in March, 1776, and in Cap- tain Robert Swan's company. 2. Sarah. Children of Elijah and Sarah ( Houghton ) Crane: 1. Lemuel, born at Milton, March 18. 1757. 2. Saralı, born at Canton, April 16. 1761. 3. Elisha. July 8, 1765. 4. Eli- jah. mentioned below.
(V) Elijah (2), son of Elijah ( 1) Crane. was born at Canton, 1769: married. Decem- ber 6, 1787. Mary Fisher, of Stoughton, born 1772. daughter of Ezekiel (4) ; Elizur (3): Anthony (2) : Anthony Fisher ( I). Ezekiel Fisher. Jr., married Sarah May (5) : Nathaniel (4) ; Elizur (3) : Eleazur (2) : Samuel May ( 1).
(VI) Allen Benjamin, son of Elijah (2) Crane, was born 1790. and settled in Eding- ton. Maine. He married Mary Cozgeshall. born April 1. 1793. at Taunton, Massachu- setts. died 1875. at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Ile was a farmer of meins and influence. and a senator of Maine.
The descendants of two noble English families, one of Chilton Manor near Sud- bury. one of Codham Hall. Coggeshall, in the adjoining shires of Suffolk and Essex. only twenty miles from one another, whose lines had been contimmed in America and had been instrumental in the settlement and development of the states of Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey. and had been among the leading founders of Boston, Newport. New Haven and Newark, were united by this marriage.
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Mary Coggeshall was a direct descendant of the Coggeshalls of Little Coggeshall. Es- sex, England. The manor in the time of King Stephen, A.D. 1135-53. was in pos- session of Thomas de Coggeshall, whose estates in the county of Essex. England. consisted of: Hoo Hall. River-hall: New Hall in Boreham: Sandon. Shem Hall in Shaldford; Alresford Hall, Packel-ham. Banfleet Hall, Hackwell: Sturemere Hall ; and their chief seat at Codham Hall. Wea- thersfield, two and a half miles from the town of Coggeshall.
Ralph Coggeshall, a monk, was at the siege of Jerusalem when captured by Sala- din, A.D. 1187. He remained at Jerusa- lem until after the arrival of Richard Coeur de Lion. 1190, which turned the tide of war against the great Saracen chief. After his return home he wrote the "Siege of lerus ?- lem, or a Chronicle of the Holy Land". This work was published in London in 1729. and there are at least two copies in this country. King Stephen and his Queen, Mary de Boulogne. A.D. 1142, endowed the monastery founded at Coggeshall on the Black Water, county Essex, endowed it with all the lands belonging to the queen and her son Eustis, situated both in France and Eng- land. A portion of the monastery still re- mains.
The Coggeshalls possess three cont-of- arms. The armorial bearings belonging di- rectly to the United States Coggeshall- are described in heraldry as: Argent. a cross with four escallops. sable: the crest, an an- cient helmet with a dexter aum bes ed. '11- ing a sword. The cross. sable, indicates that they were Crusaders ; the escallops that they made foreign voyages : the crest. a hel- Inet and arms, indicate knighthood. They not only engaged in the Crusades, but in nu- merous wars on the Scottish border, and in our own War of Independence. and este- cially on many a hard fought fieldl in the late War of the Rebellion.
John Coggeshall and Mary his wife came to New England on the ship "Lyon", Cap-
tain William Pierce, which brought a part of Governor Winthrop's family, September 16, 1632. Coggeshall. a man of means and distinguished consideration, was a member on the first board of selectmen of Boston. a body which continued until the adoption of the city charter in 1822, a period of Iss years. He was deacon of Boston Church under Cotton and Wilson, and a member of the first general court of Massachusetts, that of May 14. 1634. and of several other gen- eral courts until the departure of Sir Harry Vane. Coggeshall was a favorer of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, and, on the condemnation of that lady, with some of the most dis- tinguished and eminent members of the col- ony. he was disarmed, disfranchised, and "had leave to depart". Once exiled from his native land for freedom to worship God. not finding it in Massachusetts, he must prepare to move on again. With Coddington, then the richest merchant in the colony, and sixteen others, he purchased the Isle of Aquidneck of the Narragansett sachems, and removed thither in the spring of 1638. and the following year founded the city of Newport. Upon the organiza- tion of the government under the first char- ter. May. 1647. he was elected first president of the colony with Roger Williams, William Coddington and others for assistants. He thus stood at the head of the party of re- ligious freedom in this and all lands. He died in office, November 27. 1647. aged 56 years, and was buried on his estate, on what is now Coggeshall avenue, about two miles below the city of Newport. Here also sleep many of his descendants. distinguished in the annals of Rhode Island. Children: I. John. inherited his father's estate. and was in office a large portion of his life : died Oc- tober 1, 1708. in the ninetieth year of his age. Their estate, with the exception of the cemetery, passed out of the family in 1802. 2. Joshua had a large property on the west road, partly in Newport. now Mid- dleton, and partly in Portsmouth. He was ore of the founders of Quakerism in the
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United States. He was a member of the Society of Friends, at least as early as 1660. when, going into Plymouth Colony, he was arrested, thrown into jail, and his horse taken from him, which was sold for twelve pounds. He died March 1. 1689, and his large landed estate, now after the lapse of 225 years, is yet in the possession of his descendants. It is situated nearly opposite the house from which Colonel Barton took General Prescott on the night of July 9. 1777. 3. Anne Coggeshall, married Peter Easton, son of Governor Nicholas Easton. and brother of Governor John Easton, No- vember 15, 1643. 4. Wait, born in Bos- ton, September 11. 1636; married Daniel Gould, minister of the Society of Friends. December 18. 1651.
Mary Coggeshall. wife of Allen Benja- min Crane, was a direct descendant of John Coggeshall, member of first board of select- men, Boston, deacon of Boston Church. member of general court of Massachusetts. first president of Newport Colony. ( For further data of Coggeshall consult : Guil- lims Banner Displayed, Boutelle's English Heraldry, Edmonston's Heraldry. Encyclo- pedia of Heraldry. Burke's Armory, Wright's History of the County Essex, vol. 2. Massachusetts Records, vol. I. Rhode Island, vol. I, and for the Norman branch of the family, see Gentlemen's Magazine. vol. 53. page 50).
Children of Allen Benjamin Crane and Mary Coggeshall : 1. Timothy Elijah. 2. Samuel Coggeshall. 3. Franklin. 4. Allen Benjamin. 5. Celia. 6. Mary ; also three girls who died in infancy.
(VII) Samuel Coggeshall, son of Allen Benjamin Crane, was born in Edington. Maine, May 16. 1822. and died in Potsdam, New York, May 20, 1904. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native place, and at Foxcroft Academy, Foxcroft. Maine. He went to California in 1810 and remained a year. Upon his return he removed with his brothers Timothy and Al- len to northern New York, where they lum-
bered in the Adirondacks and cleared a lot of land, called the Crane farm, now known as Gale's. For some time he was in charge of the Hewitville mill, near Potsdam, where he lived. He then removed to Pots- dam, and there conducted a chair factory for some years. He was justice of the peace and member of the town board of Potsdam: a thirty-second degree Mason, member of Racquette Lodge of Free Masons, and Commandery No. 24. Knights Templar. He was a constant student of the Bible. Bible history, and history of religions and philos- ophy. For many years he conducted a Bi- ble class of men in the Universalist church of Potsdam. He married ( first ) Mary Cummings: ( second ) Harriet K. Bissell. born at Cole Brook, New Hampshire, July 16. 1830. died at Potsdam, February 6. 1893, daughter of Emery H. Bissell, born September 29. 1803. at Cole Brook, New Hampshire, and Anne Johnson, bora Octo- ber 27. 1807. at Stratford, New Hampshire : died January 4. 1864: granddaughter of David Bissell (2), Mercy Bissell (3), Em- ery Bissell (4). Morgan Bissell (5). Olive Bissell; David Bissell (6), descendant of old Connecticut family. Anne Johnson was descendant of Edward Johnson. 1599- 1672, Colonial official and historical writer from Kent. England.
Child of first wife: Louise. horn May. 1850, married, 1870. Edward Hughes, Osh- kosh, Wisconsin : children : Mary, Harriet. and a son. Children of second wife: I. Julia Ettie, mentioned below. 2. Jessie Maria: married Frank Willard Moore, of Old De Kalb, New York. in the lumber business with A. Sherman Co. : children: i. Barbara Crane: married John Lloyd, with "Morgan Sash. Door and Blind Co.," Osh- kosh, Wisconsin : ii. Mabel Jessie : iii. Willis Merton. 3. Jerome Allen, of Brooklyn, New York : general manager of Manhattan drug stores of William D. Riker, and ad- vertising manager of the entire Riker busi- ness: married Alice Whittaker, of Clinton. Massachusetts. Children: i. Mary Alice
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Whittaker; ii. Allen Jerome; iii. Edward Samuel Coggeshall: iv. Donald Francis. 4. Harriet May, mentioned below. 5. Daisy Anne, married Charles Hamilton Sisson, son of George Wing Sisson. Potsdam, New York. Children: i. Marjorie Crane; ii. Dorothy Hamilton; iii. Jerome Crane: iv. Sara Hamilton; v. Patricia Coggeshall; vi. Bessie, died in third year of her age.
(VIII ) Julia Ettie Crane, daughter of Samuel Coggeshall Crane, born at Potsdam, May 19, 1855. educated in the public schools and the State Normal School of Potsdam; in vocal music, a pupil of Harry Wheeler. of Boston, Massachusetts. Manuel Garcia, the elder, of London, England, Madame Luisa Cappiani. Frank G. Dossert. and Oscar Saengar, of New York. Miss Crane studied school music methods with Luther Whiting Mason and H. E. Holt, of Boston, and taught musie in connection with regular grade work in the public schools of Potsdam. From this work she went to Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, where she taught vocal music and mathematics in the State Normal School, and later was given charge of all the music, both vocal and in- strumental. in the same institution. After one year abroad and two years of private voice teaching, she was elected to the posi- tion of teacher of music in the State Nor- mal School of Potsdam, a position which at this date ( 1910) she still hohl -.
Finding the state appropriations of both time and money inadequate for the equip- ment of supervisors of music for the schools. Miss Crane added to the prescribed course of study such private lessons as she felt were needed by teachers who were to intro- duce music into the public school -. This led to the establishment of what was called "The Special Music Teacher's Course". from which have been graduated several hundred teachers who were located in many states of the Union. The success of these teachers brought to the Normal School stu- dents from various parts of the country, and the advance of public school music led
to the constant broadening of the course of study. These two forces soon increased the number taking the special music course be- vond the capacity of the rooms allotted ior it in the Normal School building, and Mis- Crane purchased a building next to the Nor- mal School. and named her private school. now with a home of its own, "The Crane Normal Institute of Music". The class work of the school is still continued within the walls of the Normal School, the voice lessons and the business of the private school being carried on in the Institute building. This arrangement enables Miss Crane to su- pervise the work of her own school while carrying on the teaching of the music meth- ods in the State Normal School. Many ad- vantages come to the regular Normal stu- dents through the connection between the State School and the Institute of Music, as teachers of experience are always in attend- ance who are glad of the opportunity to test the new methods they are learning by in- structing classes of students in sight singing. ear training or musical theory. Through this possibility of additional practice in mu- sic, Normal students have, free of expense. a course of study which fits them for the music of the grades, and enables the more musical ones to do departmental work in music, and even to teach all the music of the smaller schools.
The Crane Normal Institute of Music sends out yearly from twelve to twenty-five graduates who are well fitted to teach or su- pervise the music in the colleges, normal and city schools. The music in many of the best schools of the United States is now taught by graduates of this school. The present faculty is: Miss Julia E. Crane, Director: Mrs. Harriet Crane Bryant. Voice: Miss Edith M. Austin, Theory and History: Mr. R. M. Tunnicliffe, Superviso- of Teaching in the Public Schools: Miss N. Cora Williams, Assistant: Miss Elva M. Havword, Secretary.
The students of this school have their Psychology and History of Education in
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the regular Normal classes, with the Normal School instructors.
(VIII ) Mrs. Harriet May Crane Bryant, daughter of Samuel Coggeshall Crane, was born at Potsdam, May 19, 1863, educated 11 the public schools, the State Normal School, and the Crane Normal Institute of Potsdam. In vocal music she was a pupil of Madame Cappiani, New York City, Sarah Hershey Eddy, of Chicago, Illinois, Madame Frida de Gabelle Ashforth, New York City, Dr. Frank G. Dossert (now di- rector of the International Opera School. Paris), and Oscar Saenger, New York City. Mrs. Bryant taught in the public schools of Potsdam, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, West Bay City, Michigan, Wheaton College, Illi- nois, and Chicago. She sang in concert and church in Chicago and surroundings; in quartet in First Presbyterian Church, under Clarence Eddy. in quartet in the Memorial Baptist Church, Oakwood Boulevard. Chi- cago. Mrs. Bryant is now teacher of Voice Culture in the Crane Normal Institute of Music, Potsdam.
She married Willis Merton Bryant, of Chicago, Illinois, born at Sycamore, Illinois, 1863 ; died in Chicago, Illinois. 1892, son of Dr. William Bryant, physician in Sycamore : born in North Adams, Massachusetts, cousin of William Cullen Bryant. Mrs. Bryant has one adopted son, Howard Duane Bryant, educated in the public schools of Potsdam, studied voice at the Crane Nor- mal Institute of Potsdam, and with Dr. Frank G. Dossert, in New York City and l'aris; now following his profession in Rich- mond, Virginia.
Howard Duane married Celeste Kerr. daughter of Rev. George Kerr, of Bloom- ville, New York.
For further data of the Crane family see "Memorials of Cranes of Chilton", "Geneal- ogy of the Crane Family", both in the pub- 1c library of Syracuse. New York, and other public libraries: "History of Old Braintree". "Records of Massachusetts Col- ony", "Records of Connecticut Colony", and
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