Yolo County Biographies


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HENRY CRANER
 
a merchant at Winters, Yolo County, is a son of Paul and Eva (Landsberg) Craner, 
natives of Prussia, and Henry himself was born in that country, in 1840.  At the 
age of fifteen years he came by water to California, settling in Placer County 
three years, engaged in mercantile business in partnership with his brother, 
Julius, and for two years he was similarly engaged in Vacaville; then he started 
a store in Buckeye, Yolo County, the second store in the place.  In 1875 the 
town of Buckeye was moved to Winters, and Mr. Craner went to Cottonwood (now 
Madison), and started a store there which he conducted until 1878, when he came 
to Winters, where he is now the proprietor of the leading mercantile house in 
the place. 
            April 15, 1882, in San Francisco, he married Rosa Lazarus, who was 
born in Prussia, in 1856, and they have one son, Arthur, born June 18, 1884.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler