Word: craning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard T. Crane Jr., president of the Crane Co. Lyman Delano, of the Atlantic Coast
...Crane is the widow of George W. Beckford-a famous granite king of Hardwick, Vt., he having built such buildings as our Post Office at Washington, D. C. They had two sons and one daughter. This daughter died at the age of four years. She then adopted a little girl the same...
After Mr. Beckford's death she married Dr. Edward Crane of Hardwick, Vt., who had one son. This makes her all those kinds of mother, and a real one she is to each of them, looking after their many needs...
...always read your articles on people with much interest. As you say "Names make news." Do you know of any other person with more names than this: When visiting my friend Mrs. Edward Beckford Crane at her winter home in St. Petersburg, Fla., we discussed the duties and pleasures of motherhood. She said to me, Do you realize how many kinds of mother I am: twelve. I enclose you the list she gave...
Engaged. Zenas Crane Colt, son of Samuel Colt of Pittsfield, Mass., and great nephew of the late U. S. Senator W. Murray Crane; to Miss Cynthia Means, of Brookline, Mass...