Caroline Bartlett Crane

Caroline Julia Bartlett Crane, Unitarian minister, born in Hudson, st. Croix county, Wis., 17th August 1858. She is a daughter of Lorenzo Dow and Julia A. Brown Bartlett. When she was sixteen years old, she heard a sermon which led her to make the liberal ministry her lifework. After she was graduated at Carthage College, in Illinois the disapproval of her relatives and friends kept her from entering the ministry at once, and she turned her attention to newspaper work. For about three years she was on the staff of the Minneapolis "Tribune," and later was city editor of the Oshkosh "Daily Morning Times." After spending a short time in special study, Miss Bartlett entered on her new calling as pastor of a little Unitarian flock in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. During the three years she remained there, her efforts were greatly prospered.The fame of her labors at Sioux Falls brought her an urgent call from the First Unitarian Church of Kalamazoo, Mich., which she was induced to accept, as it would give her better opportunity for special study than she could have in South Dakota. Miss Bartlett spent the summer of 1891 abroad and preached in many of the Unitarian churches in England. In philanthropic investigations while abroad, Miss Bartlett went about with the slum officers of the Salvation Army. Her conversion to the cause of woman's political enfranchisement did not come until some years of public work, but then it was thorough. She married Augustus Warren Crane in 1896.

From American Women: fifteen hundred biographies, with over 1,400 photos: a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Rev. ed.) by Frances E. Willard an Mary A Livermore (New York/Chicago/Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897