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Joseph H. Crane

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Joseph Halsey Crane
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's3rddistrict
In office
March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1837
Preceded byWilliam McLean
Succeeded byPatrick Gaines Goode
Member of theOhio House of Representatives
In office
1809
Personal details
Born(1782-08-31)August 31, 1782
Elizabethtown, New Jersey
DiedNovember 13, 1851(1851-11-13)(aged 69)
Dayton, Ohio
Resting placeWoodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio
Political partyAnti-Jacksonian
Alma materPrinceton University

Joseph Halsey Crane(August 31, 1782 – November 13, 1851) was anattorney,soldier,jurist,andlegislator.He was born inElizabethtown, New Jersey[1]He was the son of General Wiliam Crane and Abigail (Miller) Crane and the grandson ofStephen Crane,member of theFirst Continental Congress,his brother wasColonel Ichabod B. Crane.

Joseph Crane was a student atPrinceton College.He studied law with GovernorAaron Ogdenand was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1802 and practiced there briefly. He went toDayton, Ohioin 1804 and became the first attorney to practice in there. Crane took onDaniel C. Cooperas a client.

In 1809, Joseph Halsey Crane married Julia Ann Elliott, the daughter of one of Dayton's first doctors, Dr. John Elliott, who was asurgeonin theUnited States Armyduring the Revolution and had been atVincennes, Indianawith General"Mad Anthony" Wayneand GeneralArthur St. Clair.Joseph and Julia had a large family, but most of the children, like Ann (died February 22, 1812, aged 18 months), died young. Two sons, William Elliott Crane and Joseph Graham Crane, followed their father into the legal profession. His son Joseph,brevetteda major in theArmy of the Potomacfor his participation in theSecond Battle of Bull Run,later became mayor ofJackson, Mississippiduring theReconstruction erain the south. He was stabbed to death by a former colonel in theConfederate ArmynamedEdward M. Yerger.[2][3][4][5]

He was elected a member of theOhio House of Representativesin 1809. During the session inColumbus, Ohio,he authored thePractice Act– modeled after the practice of theCourt of Common PleasatWestminster Hall– under which legal proceedings in Ohio were regulated until the adoption of the revisedconstitutionof 1851.

Joseph Crane served in theWar of 1812as a private, Fifth Brigade, First Division of the Ohio Militia. His brotherIchabod Craneserved as a captain in the United States Army during the war.

He wasMontgomery Countyrecorder in 1813 and prosecuting attorney of the county from 1813 to 1816. In 1814, he was on the Board of Directors of Dayton's first bank, the Dayton Manufacturing Company. In 1819, he was a Trustee at the founding of the Dayton Academy.

Joseph Halsey Crane was elected President Judge of the Ohio First Circuit Court of Common Pleas in 1817 serving two terms until he resigned in 1829 to take his seat in Congress. He was elected in 1828 as anAnti-JacksonianfromOhio's 3rd congressional districtto theTwenty-first Congress.He was subsequently elected to three more terms, serving until 1837. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1836.[6]

Joseph H. Crane returned to Dayton after his congressional service and resumed the practice of law. For several years from 1831, he was in partnership withRobert C. Schenck.WhenClement Vallandighamcame to Dayton in 1847 and became actively engaged in the practice of law a few years later, he often availed himself of the superior facilities afforded by Judge Crane's extensive law library in preparation of his cases. Judge Crane mentored and encouraged the aspiring young attorney and a warm personal friendship developed between them that was never broken.

Joseph Halsey Crane died in Dayton, aged 69, and was interred inWoodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.

References

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  1. ^Joseph Halsey Crane,Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.Accessed December 6, 2007.
  2. ^PAUL FINKELMAN & MELVIN I. UROFSKY, Ex parte Yerger, in LANDMARK DECISIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT (2003), available in CQ ELECTRONIC LIBRARY, CQ Supreme Court Collection,http://library.cqpress.com/scc/lndmrk03-113-6430-338597[permanent dead link](last visited April 4, 2007). Document ID: lndmrk03-113-6430-338597.
  3. ^History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio, Volume 2 By Augustus Waldo Drury
  4. ^THE TRAGEDY IN JACKSON.; The Murder of Colonel Joseph G. Crane, Mayor of the City by Colonel Yerger. NY Times June 15, 1869, Wednesday
  5. ^Military record of civilian appointments in the United States Army, Volume 2 By Guy Vernor Henry
  6. ^A Princeton Companion, by Alexander Leitch, Princeton University Press (1978).

Sources

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  • United States Congress."Joseph H. Crane (id: C000872)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • History of Union County, New Jersey from 1664 to 1923. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1923, 1234 pgs.
  • History of Dayton, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, 1889, 753 pgs.
  • Edgar, John F Pioneer life in Dayton and vicinity from 1796 to 1840. Dayton, Ohio: W.J. Shuey, United Brethren Publishing House, 1896, 307 pgs.
  • Gilkey, Elliot Howard. The Ohio hundred year book: a hand-book of the public men and public institutions of Ohio, from the formation of the North-west Territory (1787) to July 1, 1901. Columbus: F.J. Heer, state printer, 1901, 779 pgs.
  • Hover, Barnes, Jones, Conover, Wright, Leiter, Bradfords, Culkins, eds. Memoirs of the Miami Valley, 3 vols, Chicago: Robert O. Law Company, 1919.
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