Lewis D. Crandall was born in Erie county, New York, in 1816, and settled in Erie in the fall of 1835, on section 18. In 1837, he establishod the ferry still known as "Crandall’s Ferry,” it being one of the first on Rock river below Dixon. Mr. Crandall was Sheriff of Whiteside county one term, and was also engaged in business at Portland with Mr. Sol. Seely, He was also editor and proprietor of the Sterling Times, now Gazette. His wife’s maiden name was Phebe Hunt. She died several years previous to Mr. Crandall, whose death occurred in 1860
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