From: Centennial Yearbook of Alameda County, Oakland, Cal.: W. Halley, 1876.

E. T. Crane

Emerson Timothy Crane is a pioneer resident of San Lorenzo. and one of the leading fruit growers in Alameda County. He is a native of New York, but started for California from Lafayette, Indiana, on the 12th day of February, 1850, and arrived in San Francisco on the 6th day of July following. In the same party came Rev. W. W. Brier and wife, Mrs. E. L. Beard and two sons. Spent the first two years of California life at the Mission of San Jose', farming, and removed to San Lorenzo in the Fall of 1852m, where he has since resided. He has taken a lively interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of his own particular locality and the county generally. Mr. Crane has always been an ardent Republican, and attended the first convention of the party held in Alameda County in 1856, with Judge Hastings as chairman; and in 1872 was elected to the Legislature as Assemblyman. Mr. Crane is a brother of Addison Moses Crane, the first Judge of Alameda County, and one of the gentlemen most actively engaged in its organization.
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