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FREDERICK L. CRANSON, one of the enterprising and bound-to-be successful business men of Silver Creek, is a member of the firm of Huntley, Cranson & Hammond, manufacturers of grain and corn cleaning, and buckwheat machinery, at the large establishment known as the Monitor Works, which was organized by Giles S. Cranson (father) and his son, F. L. Cranson, in 1885. He was born in Rome, Oneida county, New York, March 16, 1855, and is a son of Giles S. and Mary E. (Bligh) Cranson. The fact that their guarantee, which states that their machinery is unequalled in finish, that nothing but the very best material is employed in its construction, that none are permitted to leave their works unless absolutely perfect in every detail, is endorsed by commendation of the best millers from the Hudson river to the Rocky mountains and from Lake Erie to the Rio Grande, is sufficient proof that the firm knows its business and deserves their reputation. Among the useful and indispensable machinery made at the Monitor Works are: The Cranson Scouring, Polishing and Separating machine, single and double, with magnetic attachment; the Oat Clipper, the Monitor Dustless Receiving Separator, the Monitor Dustless Milling Separator, the Monitor Asprator, the Monitor Dustless Warehouse and Elevator Separator, the Cranson Corn Scouring, Polishing and Separating machine, the Diamond Dustless Corn Sheller and Separator, the Cranson Buckwheat Scouring, Polishing and Separating machine, the Cranson Roller Buckwheat Shucker, the Monitor Scalping and Receiving Shoe, and the Buckwheat Bolt. Giles S. Cranson (father) was born in 1821, in Venice, Cayuga county, this State, and after residing in several towns, came to Silver Creek, a thriving incorporated manufacturing village in the town of Hanover. In 1846 he married Mary E. Bligh, a daughter of E. Bligh and a native of Clockville, by whom he had five children. On his removal to Silver Creek in 1879 he engaged in the manufacture of buckwheat hullers. In 1885 he and his son organized the Monitor Works, and in 1886 they associated with them W. W. Huntley and C. L. Hammond. G. S. Cranson retired from the firm in 1888.

Frederick L. Cranson received his education in the common schools and afterwards acquired the art of telegraphy, and was employed as a telegraph operator for seven years. He has full charge of the correspondence and advertising department, and also directs the movements of the octette of indefatigable traveling salesmen. It goes without saying, that the productions of the firm find a ready market. He is an active and influential member of Dunkirk Commandery, No. 40, Knights Templar, has received the thirty-second degree, A. and A. Scottish Rite, and is a member of the Order of the Mystic Shrine, Ismalia Temple, Buffalo, N.Y.

Mr. Cranson united in marriage with Elizabeth A. Parkhurst, who was a daughter of Wm. Parkhurst, of Clockville, this State. Their union has been blest with one child, a daughter, named Ethel D.