Source: History of Whiteside County, IL, edited by Charles Bent, Morrison, IL  1877
Transcribed by: Denise McLoughlin, Tampico Area Historical Society
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WILLIAM S. CRANE was born in Caledonia county, Vermont, in 1815, and located in Portland in 1838, where he engaged with DODGE & WIGGINS in the mercantile business. He died in 1842.