Edwards, Rev. Jonathan. "An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of Washington." San Francisco: W. H. Lever, 1900. p. 644. GEORGE T. CRANE a pioneer of 1882, was born in Iowa, in 1854, and there resided until seventeen years old. He then went to Chicago, Illinois, and entered the service of Benham Trumbull & Company, in whose wholesale house he was employed continuously until coming to Spokane. Since his arrival here he has devoted his time mostly to mining, though for the first two years he was in the hardware business. He is now president of the Morrison Mining Company and a director in several other mining corporations, also is president of the Hill Shoe Company of this city. During the early days he was quite prominent in local affairs, serving for one term as councilman and, during 1884-85 as a member of the school board. He has not been especially active of late years in political matters, but has given his undivided attention to his extensive business interests. As a man and a citizen, he stands high in the esteem of all who know him, his integrity and uprightness being nowhere questioned. He deserves a large share in the gratitude due those whose courage and enterprise have developed the mining industry in this section of the country, thus adding immeasurably to the general prosperity. In fraternal affiliations Mr. Crane is a prominent Mason, being identified with all the bodies of that order from the blue lodge to the thirty-second degree. He was married, in Kansas, in 1876, to Margaret Wright, and they have had four children: Earl B., Frank and Marguerite, living, and Elsie, deceased. * * * * Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in December 2006 by Diana Smith. Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Washington Biographies Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the individual featured in the biographies.