Excerpt from obituary published in The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, June 4, 1985:
Bruce Crane, industrialist, civic, political leader, dies:
Dalton - Bruce Crane, chairman of Crane & Co., one of the state's most prominent Republicans and Dalton's most prominent citizen, died Sunday night at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, after a long illness. He was 75.
Mr. Crane was president of the family-owned papermaking firm from 1951 to 1975 and had been a governor's councilor, a member of the Republican National Committee and a member of the former Dalton School Committee.
He had been associated with Crane & Co. since 1931 and became a leading executive in the paper industry. He was also a director of the Byron Weston Co., a Crane subsidiary.
Born in Dalton July 27, 1909, he was a son of Winthrop Murray Crane, a former Massachusetts governor and U.S. senator, and Josephine Boardman Crane. He attended Dalton schools and Groton Academy and graduated from Yale College in 1931.
In 1932 he married Winnie Davis Long, who survives him. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Clifton Long Jr. of Hartford, Conn. The Cranes had twin daughters, Winnie and Davis, born in Hartford in March 1935.
Bruce Crane, industrialist, civic, political leader, dies:
Dalton - Bruce Crane, chairman of Crane & Co., one of the state's most prominent Republicans and Dalton's most prominent citizen, died Sunday night at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, after a long illness. He was 75.
Mr. Crane was president of the family-owned papermaking firm from 1951 to 1975 and had been a governor's councilor, a member of the Republican National Committee and a member of the former Dalton School Committee.
He had been associated with Crane & Co. since 1931 and became a leading executive in the paper industry. He was also a director of the Byron Weston Co., a Crane subsidiary.
Born in Dalton July 27, 1909, he was a son of Winthrop Murray Crane, a former Massachusetts governor and U.S. senator, and Josephine Boardman Crane. He attended Dalton schools and Groton Academy and graduated from Yale College in 1931.
In 1932 he married Winnie Davis Long, who survives him. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Clifton Long Jr. of Hartford, Conn. The Cranes had twin daughters, Winnie and Davis, born in Hartford in March 1935.
Excerpt from obituary published in The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, June 4, 1985:
Bruce Crane, industrialist, civic, political leader, dies:
Dalton - Bruce Crane, chairman of Crane & Co., one of the state's most prominent Republicans and Dalton's most prominent citizen, died Sunday night at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, after a long illness. He was 75.
Mr. Crane was president of the family-owned papermaking firm from 1951 to 1975 and had been a governor's councilor, a member of the Republican National Committee and a member of the former Dalton School Committee.
He had been associated with Crane & Co. since 1931 and became a leading executive in the paper industry. He was also a director of the Byron Weston Co., a Crane subsidiary.
Born in Dalton July 27, 1909, he was a son of Winthrop Murray Crane, a former Massachusetts governor and U.S. senator, and Josephine Boardman Crane. He attended Dalton schools and Groton Academy and graduated from Yale College in 1931.
In 1932 he married Winnie Davis Long, who survives him. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Clifton Long Jr. of Hartford, Conn. The Cranes had twin daughters, Winnie and Davis, born in Hartford in March 1935.
Bruce Crane, industrialist, civic, political leader, dies:
Dalton - Bruce Crane, chairman of Crane & Co., one of the state's most prominent Republicans and Dalton's most prominent citizen, died Sunday night at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, after a long illness. He was 75.
Mr. Crane was president of the family-owned papermaking firm from 1951 to 1975 and had been a governor's councilor, a member of the Republican National Committee and a member of the former Dalton School Committee.
He had been associated with Crane & Co. since 1931 and became a leading executive in the paper industry. He was also a director of the Byron Weston Co., a Crane subsidiary.
Born in Dalton July 27, 1909, he was a son of Winthrop Murray Crane, a former Massachusetts governor and U.S. senator, and Josephine Boardman Crane. He attended Dalton schools and Groton Academy and graduated from Yale College in 1931.
In 1932 he married Winnie Davis Long, who survives him. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Clifton Long Jr. of Hartford, Conn. The Cranes had twin daughters, Winnie and Davis, born in Hartford in March 1935.
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