Ashley Addison Crane was admitted to the US Naval Academy on 26 July 1866 but did not graduate, leaving 1 March 1867.
He is next found in the voter registration records of San Francisco County, registrant No. 39343, age 22, born Indiana, occupation C. H. officer,last residence - Bush and Mason 8, date of registration 6 August 1870, sworn.
He was a passenger on the brig Shelehoff, which departed San Francisco 23 June 1871 with a cargo of lumber for Callao. The ship was waterlogged in a hurricane 3 July 1871, latitude 168 degrees N, and longitude 117 degrees W. Crane lived until twenty-four hours before the Moses Taylor sighted the brig and came to the rescue on the 17th or 19th of October 1871 (accounts vary).
Captain Hopkins was the sole survivor and accounts of the fate of the Shelehoff (sometimes spelled Shalhoff) appear in various newspaper across the country in late October and early November of 1871.
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Alameda Daily Evening Encinal (Alameda, California Saturday 11 November 1871 p. 2
DIED
At sea, October 18th, 1871, on board the brig Shelehoff, Ashley Addison Crane, aged 22 years; son of Judge A. M. Crane, and for many years a resident of Alameda.
Obituary
At this early age has a bright and promising young man been taken from us. His frank and generous disposition, his courteous and manly conduct, and his cheerful humor, won him many friends, who will mourn his early death with true and heartfelt sorrow. As children we were constant companions, and our friendship grew into brotherly affection as we became older.
His sufferings are ended,
His soul is with the blest;
With angels bright attended
He finds eternal rest.
L.
He is next found in the voter registration records of San Francisco County, registrant No. 39343, age 22, born Indiana, occupation C. H. officer,last residence - Bush and Mason 8, date of registration 6 August 1870, sworn.
He was a passenger on the brig Shelehoff, which departed San Francisco 23 June 1871 with a cargo of lumber for Callao. The ship was waterlogged in a hurricane 3 July 1871, latitude 168 degrees N, and longitude 117 degrees W. Crane lived until twenty-four hours before the Moses Taylor sighted the brig and came to the rescue on the 17th or 19th of October 1871 (accounts vary).
Captain Hopkins was the sole survivor and accounts of the fate of the Shelehoff (sometimes spelled Shalhoff) appear in various newspaper across the country in late October and early November of 1871.
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Alameda Daily Evening Encinal (Alameda, California Saturday 11 November 1871 p. 2
DIED
At sea, October 18th, 1871, on board the brig Shelehoff, Ashley Addison Crane, aged 22 years; son of Judge A. M. Crane, and for many years a resident of Alameda.
Obituary
At this early age has a bright and promising young man been taken from us. His frank and generous disposition, his courteous and manly conduct, and his cheerful humor, won him many friends, who will mourn his early death with true and heartfelt sorrow. As children we were constant companions, and our friendship grew into brotherly affection as we became older.
His sufferings are ended,
His soul is with the blest;
With angels bright attended
He finds eternal rest.
L.
Ashley Addison Crane was admitted to the US Naval Academy on 26 July 1866 but did not graduate, leaving 1 March 1867.
He is next found in the voter registration records of San Francisco County, registrant No. 39343, age 22, born Indiana, occupation C. H. officer,last residence - Bush and Mason 8, date of registration 6 August 1870, sworn.
He was a passenger on the brig Shelehoff, which departed San Francisco 23 June 1871 with a cargo of lumber for Callao. The ship was waterlogged in a hurricane 3 July 1871, latitude 168 degrees N, and longitude 117 degrees W. Crane lived until twenty-four hours before the Moses Taylor sighted the brig and came to the rescue on the 17th or 19th of October 1871 (accounts vary).
Captain Hopkins was the sole survivor and accounts of the fate of the Shelehoff (sometimes spelled Shalhoff) appear in various newspaper across the country in late October and early November of 1871.
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Alameda Daily Evening Encinal (Alameda, California Saturday 11 November 1871 p. 2
DIED
At sea, October 18th, 1871, on board the brig Shelehoff, Ashley Addison Crane, aged 22 years; son of Judge A. M. Crane, and for many years a resident of Alameda.
Obituary
At this early age has a bright and promising young man been taken from us. His frank and generous disposition, his courteous and manly conduct, and his cheerful humor, won him many friends, who will mourn his early death with true and heartfelt sorrow. As children we were constant companions, and our friendship grew into brotherly affection as we became older.
His sufferings are ended,
His soul is with the blest;
With angels bright attended
He finds eternal rest.
L.
He is next found in the voter registration records of San Francisco County, registrant No. 39343, age 22, born Indiana, occupation C. H. officer,last residence - Bush and Mason 8, date of registration 6 August 1870, sworn.
He was a passenger on the brig Shelehoff, which departed San Francisco 23 June 1871 with a cargo of lumber for Callao. The ship was waterlogged in a hurricane 3 July 1871, latitude 168 degrees N, and longitude 117 degrees W. Crane lived until twenty-four hours before the Moses Taylor sighted the brig and came to the rescue on the 17th or 19th of October 1871 (accounts vary).
Captain Hopkins was the sole survivor and accounts of the fate of the Shelehoff (sometimes spelled Shalhoff) appear in various newspaper across the country in late October and early November of 1871.
*******
Alameda Daily Evening Encinal (Alameda, California Saturday 11 November 1871 p. 2
DIED
At sea, October 18th, 1871, on board the brig Shelehoff, Ashley Addison Crane, aged 22 years; son of Judge A. M. Crane, and for many years a resident of Alameda.
Obituary
At this early age has a bright and promising young man been taken from us. His frank and generous disposition, his courteous and manly conduct, and his cheerful humor, won him many friends, who will mourn his early death with true and heartfelt sorrow. As children we were constant companions, and our friendship grew into brotherly affection as we became older.
His sufferings are ended,
His soul is with the blest;
With angels bright attended
He finds eternal rest.
L.
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