Crane, Nathaniel M

Crane, Nathaniel M.

a Presbyterian minister, was born at West Bloomfield, N.J., December 12, 1805. He was converted when about fifteen years of age; and, after spending two years in the Bloomfield Academy, entered Williams College, Mass., and was two years in the Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pa., and one year in that at Auburn, N.Y. In 1836 he was ordained by the Cayuga Presbytery, and sent to India as a missionary, where he remained for seven years; returning to America he preached as a supply through Western Pennsylvania until his death, September 21, 1859. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1861, page 83.