Windham

CRANE, Ephraim Hitchcock

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 156

Ephraim Hitchcock CRANE, Brattleboro [Windham County, Vermont], printer and 
publisher, was born 29 January 1876 at Hyde Park [Lamoille County, Vermont], 
son of Edward C. and Mary (THOMAS) CRANE. Educated at Manchester 
[Hillsborough County], New Hampshire, public schools; Black River Academy, 
Ludlow [Windsor County, Vermont]; Dartmouth College, 1898. He was proprietor 
of the "Vermont Tribune," Ludlow, 1899-1903; treasurer and manager Vermont 
Printing Company ("Brattleboro Reformer") 1903 to date; business has 
quadrupled and now employs fifty persons. An independent Republican; 
Congregationalist. Trustee, Brooks Free Library; member Delta Kappa Epsilon 
fraternity; Sphinx Club of Dartmouth College; Brattleboro Lodge No. 102, Free 
& Accepted Masons; Fort Dummer Chapter No. 12, Royal Arch Masons; Beauseant 
Commandery No. 7, Knights Templar; and Mt. Sinai Temple, Mystic Shrine. In 
1903 he [Ephraim Hitchcock CRANE] married [Miss?] Mary E. MASTIN, of St. 
Johnsbury [Caledonia County, Vermont]; they have two daughters: Elizabeth 
Mastin and Mary Hitchcock. [The subject likely had a female ancestor with 
the maiden surname HITCHCOCK.]

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