{"id":1095,"date":"2015-05-12T11:45:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2017-11-29T15:27:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T22:27:34","slug":"crane-walter-richard-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"CRANE, WALTER RICHARD, 1870-1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mining engineer. Born&#8211; February 5, 1870, Grafton, Mass. Parents&#8211; Richard Reed and Arethusa Thorndyke (Barret) Crane. Married&#8211; Margaret M. Gray, December 28, 1898. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Kansas, A.B., 1895; A.M., 1896; Columbia University, Ph.D. 1901. Engineer and professor\u00a0with the\u00a0University of Kansas. 1893-1905; at the School of Mines, Columbia Univ., 1905-08; Dean of the School of Mines, Pennsylvania State University, 1908-18; \u00a0Appointed superintendent of the Southern Mining Station, U.S. Bureau of Mines in Birmingham, Ala., 1921; supervising research engineer, U.S. Bureau of Mines until 1933. Consulting engineer in Oakland, California, after 1933. Died April 14, 1947.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online; find a grave website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deposit of Manganese Ore in the Batesville District, Arkansas. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1922.<\/p>\n<p>Gold and Silver; Comprising an Economic History of Mining in the United States, &#8230;. New York; John Wiley and Son, 1908.<\/p>\n<p>Index of Mining Engineering Literature, &#8230;. New York; John Wiley, 1909.<\/p>\n<p>Iron Ore (Hematite) Mining Practice in the Birmingham District, Alabama. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1926.<\/p>\n<p>Ore Mining Methods, Comprising Descriptions of Methods of Support in Extaction of Ore, &#8230;. New York; John Wiley, 1910.<\/p>\n<p>Report on the Manganese Deposits of Georgia (Second Report on Manganese). Atlanta; Index Printing Co., 1919.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Special Report on Coal. Lawrence, Kan.; Kansas Geological Survey, 1898.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manganese; Uses, Preparation, Mining Costs and the Production of Ferro-alloys. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1920.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A small collection of the papers of Walter Richard Crane is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Mining engineer. Born&#8211; February 5, 1870, Grafton, Mass. Parents&#8211; Richard Reed and Arethusa Thorndyke (Barret) Crane. Married&#8211; Margaret M. Gray, December 28, 1898. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Kansas, A.B., 1895; A.M., 1896; Columbia University, Ph.D. 1901. Engineer and professor\u00a0with the\u00a0University of Kansas. 1893-1905; at the School of Mines, Columbia Univ., 1905-08; Dean of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7143,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/7143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}