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- Milton - Funeral services for Prof. Albert Rogers CRANDALL,
85, will be held
- Saturday at 2:15, the Rev. James Skaggs officiating. Services
will be held in the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
- Prof. CRANDALL was one of the best known men in the
educational field in the
- state. He earned his degree in the local college, and has
been professor of natural history at Milton since 1903.
- He was born in New York state in 1840 and entered Alfred
University there in 1858.
- His studies were interrupted by the Civil war, in which he
won the rank of lieutenant. Later he entered Milton college,
winning degrees of B. A. in 1873; M. A. in 1876 and Ph. D. in
1885.
- Prof. CRANDALL then taught at Big Foot academy, Walworth,
later entering
- Harvard as a special student for five years. Until 1896,
he was engaged as a geological instructor and in research work
in various places, and in that year became a member of the Alfred
university faculty. Seven years later he came to Milton college.
- Prof. CRANDALL has published a number of reports,
besides papers and addresses.
- Surviving are three children, William Truman, Ithaca, N.
Y.; Mrs. M. H. PLACE and
- Miss Alberta, the later two being connected with the Milton
college of music. His wife, formerly Ellen A. SAUNDERS,
whom he married in West Holleck, Ill. on Feb. 16, 1874, preceded
him in death.
- Burial will be in Milton. [Thursday edition]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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