Ancestry of
Stephen Crane

Author of The Red Badge of Courage

Jonathan Townley Crane

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• • Father of Stephen Crane — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • William Crane 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Townley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 or 19 JUN 1819 
  • Birth Location:
  • Connecticut Farms, Union, New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Feb 1880 
  • Death Location:
  • Port Jervis, Orange, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, Union, New Jersey 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Helen Peck
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Jan 1848 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Child:

  Stephen Crane (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Jonathan Townley Crane

  • ¹ Stephen Crane Studies, Blacksburg, Virginia: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1995, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 13-17, 35.
  • ² Crane, Ellery Bicknell, Genealogy of the Crane Family, Vol. II, Worcester, Massachusetts: Press of Charles Hamilton (1900), 495, 518-519.
  • ³ Lee, Francis Bazley, Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. I, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 24.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Jonathan Townley Crane", (accessed 02/21/2014).