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Samuel Coggeshall Crane

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Samuel Coggeshall Crane

Birth
Eddington, Penobscot County, Maine, USA
Death
20 May 1904 (aged 84)
Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
Burial
Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec C Lot 59
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Samuel Coggeshall, son of Allen Benjamin Crane, was born in Edington, Maine, May 16, 1822, and died in Potsdam, New York, May 20, 1904. He was educated in the public schools of his native place, and at Foxcroft Academy, Foxcroft, Maine. He went to California in 1849, and remained a year. Upon his return he removed with his brothers, Timothy and Allen, to northern New York, where they lumbered in the Adirondacks and cleared a lot of land, called the Crane farm, now known as Gale's. For some time he was in charge of the Hewitville mill, near Potsdam, where he lived. He then removed to Potsdam, and there conducted a chair factory for some years. He was justice of the peace and member of the town board of Potsdam; a thirty-second degree Mason, member of Racquette Lodge of Free Masons, and Commandery No. 24, Knights Templar. He was a constant student of the Bible, Bible history, and history of religions and philosophy. For many years he conducted a Bible class for men in the Universalist Church of Potsdam.
He married (first) Mary Cummings; (second) Harriet K. Bissell, born at Cole Brook, New Hampshire, July 16, 1830, died at Potsdam, Feb. 6, 1893, daughter of Emery H. Bissell, born Sept. 29, 1803, at Cole Brook, N.H., and Anne Johnson, born Oct. 27, 1807, at Stratford, N.H.; died Jan. 4, 1864; granddaughter of David Bissell (2), Mercy Bissell (3), Emery Bissell (4), Morgan Bissell (5), Olive Bissell; David Bissell (6), descendant of old Connecticut family. Anne Johnson was descendant of Edward Johnson, 1699-1672, Colonial official and historical writer from Kent, England.

Child of first wife;

Louise, born May 1850, married, 1870, Edward Hughes, Oshkosh, Wisconsin; children: Mary, Harriet, and a son.

Children of second wife:

1. Julia Ettie, mentioned below.

2. Jessie Maria, married Frank Willard Moore, of Old De Kalb, N.Y., in the lumber business with A. Sherman Co., children: i. Barbara Crane, married John Lloyd, with "Morgan Sash, Door and Blind Co.", Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
ii. Mabel Jessie; iii. Willis Merton.

3. Jerome Allen, of Brooklyn, N.Y., geneal manager of Manhattan drug stores of William D. Riker, and advertising manager of the entire Riker business; married Alice Whittaker, of Clinton, Mass. Children: i. Mary Alice Whittaker; ii. Allen Jerome. iii. Edward Samuel Coggeshall; iv. Donald Francis.

4. Anne, married Charles Hamilton Sisson, son of George Wing Sisson, Potsdam, N.Y. Children: i. Marjorie Crane; ii. Dorothy Hamilton; iii. Jerome Crane; iv. Sara Hamilton; v. Patricia Coggeshall; vi. Bessie, died in third year of her age.
Samuel Coggeshall, son of Allen Benjamin Crane, was born in Edington, Maine, May 16, 1822, and died in Potsdam, New York, May 20, 1904. He was educated in the public schools of his native place, and at Foxcroft Academy, Foxcroft, Maine. He went to California in 1849, and remained a year. Upon his return he removed with his brothers, Timothy and Allen, to northern New York, where they lumbered in the Adirondacks and cleared a lot of land, called the Crane farm, now known as Gale's. For some time he was in charge of the Hewitville mill, near Potsdam, where he lived. He then removed to Potsdam, and there conducted a chair factory for some years. He was justice of the peace and member of the town board of Potsdam; a thirty-second degree Mason, member of Racquette Lodge of Free Masons, and Commandery No. 24, Knights Templar. He was a constant student of the Bible, Bible history, and history of religions and philosophy. For many years he conducted a Bible class for men in the Universalist Church of Potsdam.
He married (first) Mary Cummings; (second) Harriet K. Bissell, born at Cole Brook, New Hampshire, July 16, 1830, died at Potsdam, Feb. 6, 1893, daughter of Emery H. Bissell, born Sept. 29, 1803, at Cole Brook, N.H., and Anne Johnson, born Oct. 27, 1807, at Stratford, N.H.; died Jan. 4, 1864; granddaughter of David Bissell (2), Mercy Bissell (3), Emery Bissell (4), Morgan Bissell (5), Olive Bissell; David Bissell (6), descendant of old Connecticut family. Anne Johnson was descendant of Edward Johnson, 1699-1672, Colonial official and historical writer from Kent, England.

Child of first wife;

Louise, born May 1850, married, 1870, Edward Hughes, Oshkosh, Wisconsin; children: Mary, Harriet, and a son.

Children of second wife:

1. Julia Ettie, mentioned below.

2. Jessie Maria, married Frank Willard Moore, of Old De Kalb, N.Y., in the lumber business with A. Sherman Co., children: i. Barbara Crane, married John Lloyd, with "Morgan Sash, Door and Blind Co.", Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
ii. Mabel Jessie; iii. Willis Merton.

3. Jerome Allen, of Brooklyn, N.Y., geneal manager of Manhattan drug stores of William D. Riker, and advertising manager of the entire Riker business; married Alice Whittaker, of Clinton, Mass. Children: i. Mary Alice Whittaker; ii. Allen Jerome. iii. Edward Samuel Coggeshall; iv. Donald Francis.

4. Anne, married Charles Hamilton Sisson, son of George Wing Sisson, Potsdam, N.Y. Children: i. Marjorie Crane; ii. Dorothy Hamilton; iii. Jerome Crane; iv. Sara Hamilton; v. Patricia Coggeshall; vi. Bessie, died in third year of her age.


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