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Frances Williams Crane

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
Death: 1958 (88-89)
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Place of Burial: Woods Hole, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Richard T. Crane and Mary Josephine Crane
Wife of Frank Rattray Lillie
Mother of Catherine Crane Lillie; Dr. Margaret Halsted Lillie; Mary Prentice Barrows; Alice Rattray Lillie; Emily Ann Lillie and 4 others
Sister of Charles R. Crane; Herbert (Bert) Prentice Crane; George Hamilton Crane; Katharine Elizabeth Gartz; Mary Ryerson Crane and 3 others

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About Frances Williams Crane

Frances Crane Lillie (1868 - 1958), A Memoir, by Mary Prentice Lillie Barrows: http://www.wheelinghistoricalsociety.com/album7/A%20Memoir-Frances%...

Building for a Long Future: The University of Chicago and Its Donors, 1889-1930: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits/building/liliie.html

Crane Family and Lillie Family Papers, 1833 - 1978, (bulk 1890s - 1960s): http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/fa/M-C/Crane-Lillie-inv.htm

cranelillie: http://woodsholemuseum.org/oldpages/archive/Cranelillie.pdf

The Angelus Bell Tower and Mary Garden in Woods Hole: http://woodsholemuseum.org/oldpages/sprtsl/v6n2-BellTowr.pdf

Jane Addams Digital Edition: https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/3471

World Cat Identities: http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2009162934/

University of Dayton, Inspiration Behind Mary's Garden: https://udayton.edu/blogs/imri/2017-05-04-woods-hole.php

Saint Elizabeth Seton Church: https://www.saintelizabethseton.org/st-josephs-chapel

Mary Crane Center: http://www.marycrane.org/index.php?/anniversary

Graduate Theological Union Special Collections: http://gtuarchives.blogspot.com/2009/05/fredrich-von-hugel-frances-...

Summer Register: https://books.google.com/books?id=SJJIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA459&lpg=PA459&d...

sfgenealogy: http://www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcwills/messages/389.html

Wheeling Historical Society & Museum: http://www.wheelinghistoricalsociety.com/album7/Albump1.htm

Wheeling Historical Society & Museum: http://www.wheelinghistoricalsociety.com/album0/history3.htm

Tombstone: symbol cross T.O. S.F., AGEIDEA, Inscription: FRANCES HIS WIFE, epitaph:

Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172292593/emily_ann-rattray-cramer

Left by Crane Kin Mrs. Frances Crane Lillie, of 5801 Kenwood, daughter of Richard T. Crane, founder of the Crane Co., left an estate estimated at $2 million. Mrs. Lillie, widow of Dr. Frank R. Lillie, University of Chicago research professor, died Nov 5 at the age of 88. Her will, admitted to probate Monday, leaves $11,200 to three Roman Catholic organizations: St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 5472 Kimbark, $5,000; the Catholic Church of Buffalo Grove, Ill. $1,200; and the Calvert Foundation. $5,000. AN ADDITIONAL $85,000 is to be divided amount 26 friends and relatives, and 1,000 shares of Crane Co. stock was added to the previously established Frank R. Lillie Educational Fund, of which the Continental Illinois Ntional Bank & Trust Co., is trustee. The balance of the estate is to be placed in four separate trusts for her daughters – Mrs. Margaret Gildea and Mrs. Emily Cramer, both of St. Louis, Mrs. Mary Barrows of Kentfield, Calif., and Mrs Catherine Bacon, of Marlon Station, Penn.

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Frances Williams Crane's Timeline

1869
August 30, 1869
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
1892
September 17, 1892
Pasadena, Los Angeles County, CA, United States
1896
October 8, 1896
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States
1899
May 7, 1899
Illinois, United States
1900
1900
Illinois, USA
1903
February 4, 1903
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
1904
May 22, 1904
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
1906
September 27, 1906
St. Margaret's Hospital, Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
1909
March 29, 1909
5801 Kenwood Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States