OCR Text |
Show DEATH SUMMONS STATESMAN. Former Senator Crane of Massachusetts Massachu-setts Passes Away. Dalton, Mass. Winthrop Murray Crane, former United States senator, former governor of Massacnusetts, a leading figure for many years in the Republican party, in the affairs of the nation, and active head of a great paper-making industry, died October 2 at his residence, Sugar Hill, in this town. He passed from life quietly and unconsciously in an attack of sleeping sickness, which followed an illness of seven weeks, due, accord ing to his ohvsieians. to ence.nholitis. or inflammation of the brain. Born in Dalton, Mass., April 23, 1S53, the son of Zenas M. Crane, a paper manufacturer, Senator Crane was educated in tilie public schools and at Williston seminary. He never attended college, but after leaving the seminary, entered the paper mills founded by his grandfather at Dalton and in them be maintained an interest inter-est throughout his life. An outstanding, characteristic of Senator Crane was the fact that he attained eminence in public life without with-out being an . orator. Although he served eight years in the senate, it was said of turn that he never made what really could be called a "speech" in that body. |