Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Craine, W. Monroe C. February 19, 1865 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

W. MONROE C. CRAINE,
a graduate of the Philadelphia college of pharmacy, and one of the leading
druggists of the city of Altoona, is a son of Wilson E. and Sarah A.
(Clarkson) Craine, and was born in Blair county, Pennsylvania, February 19,
1865.  The Craines are of English lineage, and Mr. Crain's paternal
grandfather, Christopher Craine, was an early settler in Antis township,
where he followed farming and run a foundry until his death, which occurred
about the year 1867.  His son, Wilson E. Craine (father), was a native of
Blair county, where he followed farming until 1868, when he engaged in the
general mercantile business in Altoona.  In 1880 he retired from all active
business and traveled through the south on account of ill health, but was not
benefited by his change of climate, and died, while on his return to Altoona,
at Carsville, Huntington county, in 1882, when in the forty-fifth year of his
age.  He was a member of the Second Methodist Episcopal church of Altoona, and
a democrat in politics, and served his borough for several years as a member
of the school board.
      W. Monroe C. Craine received his education in the public schools of
Altoona, and then was successively employed until 1885 as a clerk in drug
stores of that city, Mount Pleasant, and Greensburg.  Two years later, in
1887, he entered the Philadelphia college of pharmacy, from which he was
graduated the same year.  Immediately after graduation he returned to Altoona
and established his present drug store, at the corner of Chestnut avenue and
Fourth street, where he carries a large and complete stock of fresh and pure
drugs.  He is also proprietor of another drug store, situated on the corner
of Sixth avenue and Fourth street, and enjoys a large and remunerative trade.
      In 1889 Mr. Craine was united in marriage with Emma Thompson, daughter
of John R. and Amelia Thompson, of Birmingham, Huntingdon county.  To Mr. And
Mrs. Craine have been born two children:  Mary and Robert.
      In politics Mr. Craine is a strong republican, and has been for some
time serving from the Seventh ward of Altoona as a member of the city
council, in which he is chairman of the committee on surveys, and a member of
the committees of finance and exonerations and printing.  He is a member of
the Eighth Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Veranda Lodge of Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and Altoona Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of which latter
he is a past chancellor.  Mr. Craine brings to the service of his patrons a
thorough knowledge of the profession in which he is engaged, and is
remarkably accurate and careful in filling the prescriptions of physicians,
and in putting up all drugs or chemicals ordered from him.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Beth Fladaker  Eflad@aol.com.

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