Ventura County Biographies

CHAUNCEY I. CRANE 

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

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represents the second generation of a family of successful horticulturists and 
ranchers in Ventura County. He is a son of Mr. J. L. Crane, whose business 
connections and whose experience during his active career are detailed on other 
pages.

In Saticoy Ventura County, November 4, 1877, Chauncey I. Crane was born, and he 
grew up on his father�s place and was a student in the public schools until he 
reached the age of sixteen. After that he found regular employment on his 
father�s ranch and in the varied business affairs controlled by his father up to 
1896. leaving home, he then became a farmer for himself in Orange County, but in 
1909 returned to Ventura County and took charge of his father�s fifty acre ranch 
in the vicinity of Santa Paula. He has forty acres of this planted in walnut and 
the rest is a lima bean plantation.

Chauncey I. Crane is a member of the native sons of California, of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a democratic voter and affiliated with the 
Universalist Church. On March 15, 1900, he married in Los Angeles Miss Edna M. 
McLean, a native of Missouri. They are the parents of two children: Elmer 
Jefferson, fourteen years of age, is attending the public school, and Nellie May 
is also a school girl.
 
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917. pp 554