Oliver Crane (clergy)

His life was an active one, including extensive traveling in Turkey, Europe, Egypt and Palestine, assiduous investigating, and versatile writing.

[1] His early education began in his native town with Gideon Wheeler as his instructor, in the school-house afterward used by the First Presbyterian Church.

After preparing for college, he entered Yale University as a Sophomore, and graduated thence with honors in the class of 1845, and from Union Theological Seminary in 1848.

Being reappointed missionary in the spring of 1860, he went back to Turkey and was assigned to Adrianople, but, in 1863, circumstances necessitated his return to the U.S.[1] In 1864, he was elected Professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature in Rutgers Female College, New York City, but declined, to accept a call from the Presbyterian Church of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, where he was installed as pastor.

[1] In 1880, he was chosen Secretary of his college class, in which capacity he prepared an exlaustive biographical record of every member, a book which was a pioneer in this line of publication.

In 1888, he published a hexametrical line-by-line version of Virgil's Æneid, the result of much critical labor, which was favorably received.

[1] Crane married, September 5, 1848, Marion D. Turnbull, and had by her five children: Louina M., died young; Elizabeth M. (wife of Rev.