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Education: Brother Crane entered The University of Georgia in 1887. In November of 1887, he joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. In 1888, he was the right fielder for the sophomore class baseball team. Crane was a member of The University of Georgia Class of 1890.
His father was John Ross Crane (UGA 1862) who was with General Lee at the surrender of the Confederacy at Appomattox Court House. His mother was Frances Thwewatt (Fannie) Moore, a daughter of Thomas Moore and his third wife, Martha Hicks Jackson. Thomas Moore’s second wife was Susan Benning, and they had a daughter, Sarah Cobb Moore, who married John William Kennon. Thomas Moore’s son, Robert Hughes Moore, married Mary Ann Kennon, a daughter of Warner Lewis Kennon and a brother of John William Kennon, who was the father of Kappa Deuteron Brother Benning Moore Kennon. Another son of Thomas Moore, Benning Betts Moore, married Antonio Lamar, a kinsman of Brother Lavoisier Ledran Lamar.
A son, William Moore Crane, Jr., was instrumental in the founding of The University of Georgia Alumni Society and was the UGA alumni society’s first full-time alumni secretary in 1941. The William Moore Crane Leadership Scholarship, administered by The University of Georgia Honors Program, is named for him and was established in his memory to recognize students who demonstrate academic success and campus leadership.
Career: Brother Crane was a merchant, coal executive and an insurance salesman in Athens, Georgia.
From his obituary, The Athens Banner-Herald, Athens, Georgia, Sunday, October 16, 1938, p. 1:
He was a passenger on the first train to come into Athens over the Southern Railway tracks and was the first passenger on the first street car to start operating here. The coal industry in Athens is a vast business in this day, but it was Will Crane who realized that the then infant industry had arrived to stay - and he became the first coal dealer in the city ...”
In April of 1913, Mr. Crane suffered an accident in which his hip was broken and from which he never fully recovered. But as evidence of his courage and determination, he refused to give up in the face of such a physical handicap as might have broken the spirit of one less strong. After nine long months of trying all methods to allow the bones to knit, it seemed he was destined to the lot of a bed-ridden invalid. But his spirit again triumphed and he insisted on getting up and learning to walk on crutches, which he always used thereafter.
His father was John Ross Crane (UGA 1862) who was with General Lee at the surrender of the Confederacy at Appomattox Court House. His mother was Frances Thwewatt (Fannie) Moore, a daughter of Thomas Moore and his third wife, Martha Hicks Jackson. Thomas Moore’s second wife was Susan Benning, and they had a daughter, Sarah Cobb Moore, who married John William Kennon. Thomas Moore’s son, Robert Hughes Moore, married Mary Ann Kennon, a daughter of Warner Lewis Kennon and a brother of John William Kennon, who was the father of Kappa Deuteron Brother Benning Moore Kennon. Another son of Thomas Moore, Benning Betts Moore, married Antonio Lamar, a kinsman of Brother Lavoisier Ledran Lamar.
A son, William Moore Crane, Jr., was instrumental in the founding of The University of Georgia Alumni Society and was the UGA alumni society’s first full-time alumni secretary in 1941. The William Moore Crane Leadership Scholarship, administered by The University of Georgia Honors Program, is named for him and was established in his memory to recognize students who demonstrate academic success and campus leadership.
Career: Brother Crane was a merchant, coal executive and an insurance salesman in Athens, Georgia.
From his obituary, The Athens Banner-Herald, Athens, Georgia, Sunday, October 16, 1938, p. 1:
He was a passenger on the first train to come into Athens over the Southern Railway tracks and was the first passenger on the first street car to start operating here. The coal industry in Athens is a vast business in this day, but it was Will Crane who realized that the then infant industry had arrived to stay - and he became the first coal dealer in the city ...”
In April of 1913, Mr. Crane suffered an accident in which his hip was broken and from which he never fully recovered. But as evidence of his courage and determination, he refused to give up in the face of such a physical handicap as might have broken the spirit of one less strong. After nine long months of trying all methods to allow the bones to knit, it seemed he was destined to the lot of a bed-ridden invalid. But his spirit again triumphed and he insisted on getting up and learning to walk on crutches, which he always used thereafter.
