Judge Clark Crandall was born in Hopkinton, R. I., April 17, 1785. His family removed to Petersburg, Rensselaer Co., in 1793, and from there he came on foot, in 1807, with two companions, and became one of the three first settler of the present town of Alfred. He married Amelia Vincent during the first year of his residence in the town. ... His first public office was that of a commissioner for the opening of roads. He was a constituent member of the First Seventh-day Baptist church of Alfred in 1813, and supervisor of the town in 1814 and 1815, and town clerk three terms. He was made captain of the militia in 1811, second major in 1812, colonel of the 126th regiment of the state militia in 1819, and brigadier general in 1820. He established the first manufactory in the town, wooden pails, built the first courthouse in Allegany county in 1819, represented the county in the state legislature in 1820-21, and was one of the presidential electors of the state in 1832. Having been made a justice of sessions he was called "Judge Crandall" during the remainder of his lifetime. ... In 1836 he succeeded Luke Greene in the tanning currying business at Alfred, and some years later he engaged in the cheese trade, finding markets mostly in Pennsylvania for the dairy product of his town, which he conveyed thither over the "Laurel Mountains" in wagons. ... died in Alfred November 9, 1862, aged 77 years. His son, Ira B., and his youngest daughter, Amanda, wife of William C. Burdick, are still living in Alfred.
