Person:Calvin Crandall (1)

Census: 1880 Lynn, Clay Co., Nebraska: age 16 Cause of death: Pneumonia

"The Bicentennial History of Milton", 1976, copyright 1977, Milton Historical Society. (Located at the Janesville Historical Society.) Where apples are grown, there is cider. Gardner Saunders...has gone into the cider business on a large scale, and has constructed a large press, and is now prepared to serve all who may desire his service in that line. His press has a capacity of 10 barrels per day, ...Cider apples were selling at 25 cents per bushel, and Saunders used four horses to do the grinding, running through sixty bushels in 50 minutes. "He has all the apples brought to him that he can press, some parties coming ten miles or more to get cider made," and it was observed that"almost every wagon that drives through this village nowadays isloaded with either apples or cider." "Very few persons use it as a beverage, they claim, but is a fact that but little vinegarcan be found in this section." The cider mill was located at the corner of Highway 26 and Bowers Lake Road. Calvin Crandall bought the property from [Mrs.] Gardner Saunders in 1909 and operated the cider mill until it was demolished, along with the house and other buildings, by the 1911 tornado. Materials from the house were used in building the new home, The Poplars, where Miss Cecile Crandall lives.

Calvin Eugene Crandall 1863-1955 "Sabbath Recorder", Vol 158, No 15, p 192, Apr. 11, 1955. Crandall, Calvin Eugene, son of Rev. George Jay and Elizabeth Ann Champlin Crandall, was born July 28, 1863, at Watson, N. Y., and died at his farm home in Milton, Wis., March 22, 1955. He was married to Esther Amy Rood Oct. 15, 1884, at North Loup, Neb. He was baptized in 1895 by Rev. Stephen Burdick. While in West Hallock, Ill., he served as church treasurer. Since coming to Milton, he has been affiliated with the local Seventh Day Baptist Church. He was of the ninth generation of direct descent from Elder John Crandall, of Rhode Island, the first Sabbathkeeper buried in America, in 1676. His sister, Dr. Grace Crandall, a Seventh Day Baptist missionary-physician in China, died in Shanghai in 1947. Surviving him are: three daughters, Cecile, Ada, and Esther (Mrs. Merrill Bingham), all of Milton; two sons, Person J. of Dallas, Texas, and George H. of Madison, Wis.; 7 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted on Sabbath afternoon in the church with Pastor Elmo Fitz Randolph officiating. Burial was in the Milton Cemetery. E. F. R.

1. ↑ Crandall, John Cortland. Elder John Crandall of Rhode Island and his descendants. (New Woodstock, N.Y.: unknown, 1949).