Alameda County Biographies

E. T. Crane

Transcribed by Peggy Allen, April 25 2006

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	Emerson Timothy Crane is a pioneer resident of San Lorenzo, and one of the leading 
fruit-growers in Alameda County.  He is a native of New York, but started for California from 
Lafayette, Indiana, on the 12th day of February, 1850, and arrived in San Francisco on the 6th 
day of July following.  In the same party came Rev. W.W. Brier and wife, Mrs. W.L. Beard and two 
sons.  Spent the first tow years of California life at the Mission of San Jos�, farming, and 
removed to San Lorenzo in the Fall of 1852, where he has since resided.  He has taken a lively 
interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of his own particular locality and the county 
generally.  Mr. Crane has always been an ardent Republican, and attended the first convention of 
the party held in Alameda County in 1856, with Judge Hastings as chairman; and in 1872 was 
elected to the Legislature as Assemblyman.  Mr. Crane is a brother of Addison Moses Crane, the 
first Judge of Alameda County, and one of the gentlemen most actively engaged in its organization.

Centennial Yearbook of Alameda County, California - Oakland, Calif., 1876 Page 567