Rev. Elias Crane Dead.

New York, 1895

The Rev. Elias Crane, a retired Presbyterian clergyman, died on Sunday night at Elizabeth, N. J. He was born in Jamaica and was 68 years old, He was a graduate of Princeton College. During the war he served as chaplain in the Christian Commission, afterward serving for eight years in the chapel at the New York Navy Yard. His brother is John M. Crane, president of the Shoe and Leather Bank, whose home has always been in Jamaica.


Queens County Endeavorers.

The spring convention of the Union Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor was held at Hempstead on Tuesday afternoon. The first session began at 3.15 o'clock, when the Rev. C. C. Pierce delivered the address. Percy J. S. Ryan of New York presented a report on the junior work. Dr. H. A. Stimson made the chief address at the evening service.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 8.