Frank Clifton Jennings RANK CLIFTON JENNINGS was born in Plainfield, Illinois, November 6th, 1858; son of Philander and Elsie Cook Jennings. In 1865 the family moved to Islip, Long Island, and after attending the public schools Mr. Jennings entered the employ of Bruce & Cook, a long-established firm dealing in metals. He was made bookkeeper and cashier and in 1896 became a member of the firm. The business was started by John M. Bruce at No. 190 Water Street in 1812. At that time Water Street was the thoroughfare which constituted the water front of the city, on the East River, from the Battery to Peck Slip. Whalers and other sea-going craft moored to the wharves on the opposite side of the street. His only capital was perseverance, energy, integrity and punctuality; and thereafter everyone who ever entered the firm's employ began in some subordinate position and worked up through the successive grades of office work: promotion being dependent upon merit. Mr. Jennings at the time of his death was senior member of the firm and a director of the Fulton Market Bank. He resided in New Jersey and Long Island later in Brooklyn, and in 1905 he moved to New York. He purchased considerable property at Mill Neck, where he built a beautiful home on a hilltop which commands one of the most charming views in that locality. The house was totally destroyed by fire and feeling unequal to the task of rebuilding, Mr. Jennings soon after disposed of all his Mill Neck holdings. He was a man of singularly genial and generous nature, highly respected and much beloved. He entered into the various relationships of his life with a fine enthusiasm, whether it was his business or his sports or his friendships or his religion. He did nothing half-heartedly. A successful man in business, he was equally successful in golf, and for a time he held the championship in the Nassau Club, to which he belonged. He was also a member of the Garden City Club and the Union League Club. For many years he had been connected with the Central Presbyterian Church of New York, and during the summer was a worshiper at the Reformed Church of Locust Valley. He married, October 31st, 1888, Mary Sanford, daughter of David Burr and Frances Ann Lockwood Sanford, of Brooklyn. Mr. Jennings died August 6th, 1920. He was trained to business pursuits from boyhood, developed great sagaity, foresight and energy of decision and action, which combined to build an industry which has been a farreaching and beneficent influence. His successes were won by steady purpose, indomitable will, and remarkable prevision. Winthrop Murray Crane INTHROP MURRAY CRANE was born at Dalton, Massachusetts, April 23rd, 1853; son of Zenas M. and Louise Laflin Crane, a de scendant of Henry Crane, who was a land owner in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1654. He was educated in the Dalton public schools and at Williston Seminary in Easthampton, and at seventeen entered his father's paper plant. Beginning at the rag end of the mill and going through it until every process was familiar, he went in due course into its counting room, and, in his own time and fully equipped, into its direc torate. It was after he became partner that the plant grew from one mill to four, and that two links of the chain devoted themselves entirely to the making of paper for the Government. The mills are known as the Old Berkshire, which is the original one; the Pioneer, with bank note paper for its specialty; the Bay State, which turns out various high grades of writing paper, and the Government mill at Pittsfield. Winthrop Murray Crane won the firm its first Government contract. For many years these mills produced the paper used by the United States Government for its engraved currency, bonds and notes. Because of his interest in this industry and his desire to continue with it, Mr. Crane, at the beginning of President Roosevelt's administration, declined an invitation to enter the Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury. President Roosevelt was fond of the silent Massachu |