North Star Township Biography
C. A. CRANE
Source: BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF GRATIOT COUNTY, MICHIGAN published by J. B. BEERS & CO., Chicago, 1906
C. A. CRANE, M.D., a successful practitioner of medicine and surgery, and a most valued citizen of North Star, North Star township, Gratiot county, was born September 12, 1865, in County Elgin, Ontario, son of Anthony and Mary (McVicar) Crane, the former of whom was a farmer of Ontario, who died in 1898, at the age of eighty-six years, and the latter of whom was a native of Ontario, who died in County Elgin, in 1870, when upwards of forty years of age.
Dr. Crane was the sixth member of a family of seven children. He received a good education in County Elgin in the high school at St. Thomas and the Detroit College of Medicine, from which latter institution he was graduated with the class of 1891. He practiced for a time in Detroit, and then located in North Star, where he remained one year. He then removed to Harriette, Wexford county, Michigan, where he remained for four years, and in 1897 returned to North Star, where he has since remained, successfully engaged in the practice of his profession. His practice has grown encouragingly, as his ability has become recognized, while his pleasing personal characteristics have won him many friends.
Dr. Crane was married in Lansing, Michigan, June 17, 1903, to Miss Addie M. Bayley, a native of Ontario, and a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Glew) Bayley. They have one child, Helen L., born December 29, 1904. Dr. Crane is a member of the Michigan State Medical Society and the Gratiot County Medical Society, and also affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the K. 0.T. M. M. and the M. W. A. He has been the health officer of North Star township for several years, and was nominated coroner of Gratiot county on the Democratic ticket in the summer of 1904.
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