Note: “At the age of fifteen years Nirom M. Crane was a clerk in a general country store, and continued in this line of employment at Wayne and at Penn Yan until he was twenty-one. In the year 1849 he began business for himself as a country merchant at Wayne, which he carried on successfully for three years, when he became a resident of Hornellsville, where he carried on mercantile business until 1856.
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