Census: 1880 Andover, Allegany Co., New York: age 6
GRAD: 1899 Alfred University, Alfred, Allegany Co., New York
EMPL: 1945 Alfred University, Alfred, Allegany Co., New York

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 185, No 7, p 12, July 1968.
Dr. Ben attended and graduated from Andover High school in 1891 and from Bryant and Stratton Business College in Buffalo in 1892. He was graduated from Alfred University with the B.S. degree in 1899 and became principal of the village system, Hammond, La., the same year.
On April 12, 1900, Benjamin R. Crandall of Hammond and Miss Matilda Fogg of Shiloh, N. J., were united in marriage. The South proved unfavorable for Mrs. Crandall's health; so, after two years they moved to Rawlins, Wyoming, where Dr. Ben became superintendent of schools. The unusual altitude there was found detrimental to Mrs. Crandall's health; after five years the family moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho. Here Dr. Ben served as superintendent of the city schools for eight years.
California was the home of the Crandalls for twenty-four years under most challenging and interesting conditions. Election as city superintendent of San Bernardino came as an opportunity and a challenge. After two years Dr. Ben was offered a position as state supervisor of Agricultural Teacher Training and a professorship on the University of California faculty at Berkeley. Three years later Dr. Ben was tendered the presidency of the California State Polytechnic College at San Luis Obispo, where he inaugurated a forward-looking vocational and technical program. He was later supervising principal of the Wasco Union High School District near Bakersfield where he worked for six years until retirement in 1939.
The late President J. Nelson Norwood of Alfred University invited Dr. Ben to establish a Department of Counseling and Placement and to teach some courses in the School of Theology. From 1939 to 1953 he was vocational counselor and placement secretary at Alfred University and lecturer in Rural Sociology and Business Law at Rural University School of Theology.
He was sent by the Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society to make an Educational Survey of Jamaica, B. W. I., in 1947, and as a result of the survey and report, Crandall High School was established in Kingston, Jamaica, being named in his honor.
Mrs. Crandall died on Nov. 25, 1961.
Dr. Ben is survived by his son Burton and daughter-in-law Carol, four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, two nephews, and one niece.
Funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. David S. Clarke, and burial was at Alfred.

Census: 1880 Shiloh, Cumberland Co., New Jersey: age 5

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 171, No 23, p 16, Dec. 1961.
Matilda Fogg, daughter of Isaac S. and Susan Ayers Fogg, was born in Shiloh, N. J., June 6, 1875., and died at Bethesda Hospital, North Hornell, N. Y., November 25, 1961.
She received her education at Shiloh Academy and Alfred University.
On April 12, 1900, she was married to Benjamin R. Crandall, principal of schools at Hammond, La. They made their home successively in Hammond, Rawlins, Wyo., Idaho Falls, Idaho, and for twenty-four years at several places in California. Their son, Dr. Burton B. Crandall, of Fayetteville, N. Y., was born at Rawlins.
Mrs. Crandall, always busy in church, club, social,and PTA work, placed her home first. She and Dr. Ben made a home for four girls at different times.
When prevented from being active in a Seventh Day Baptist church, they took their places in a church of the community in which they lived, at the same time retaining their membership in their home church. In 1939, upon coming to Alfred to live, they brought their letters from the Riverside Seventh Day Baptist Church and united with the Alfred church, in which they have been faithful.
She is survived by her husband, her son, and four grandchildren.
Memorial services were conducted by her pastor, the Rev. Hurley S. Warren, and the Rev. Albert N. Rogers, at the Alfred church. Interment was in Alfred Rural Cemetery. H. S. W.