Caroline Bartlett Crane

Caroline Bartlett Crane (August 17, 1858 – March 24, 1935) was an American Unitarian minister, suffragist, civic reformer, educator and journalist.

[3] In 1896, she married Augustus Warren Crane, a doctor and pioneer of X-ray research.

[3] After three years, her success in that post led to her accepting the pastorship of a larger Unitarian church in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

In the summer of 1891 she visited England, where she preached in numerous churches, met with theologian James Martineau, and investigated the slum work of the Salvation Army.

[2] Turning to public health and sanitation reform, Crane successfully campaigned for meat inspection ordinances after discovering unsanitary conditions in local slaughterhouses.