Joel Crandall, son of Benjamin, was born in Hopkinton, R. I. He came to Genesee about 1827, and took up 125 acres of land, the farm his son Albert W. now owns. Mr. Crandall cleared his land, set out an orchard, made a comfortable home, and was a lifelong farmer and lumberman. He married Huldah, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Maxson. Of their 9 children 6 were living in 1894. Joel B., of Kansas, Walter, who was major of 85th N. Y., now resides in Arkansas, Elvira (Mrs. W. W. Wellman of Salamanca), Amelia (Mrs. B. C. Buten), Sarah (Mrs. H. Smith) and Albert W. Mr. Crandall was deacon of the Seventh Day Baptist church and its chorister. He died in 1875, his wife in 1889.