Person Sheet
Birth2 Jan 1876, Quaker Basin, Madison Co., New York
FatherIra S. CRANDALL (1843-1904)
MotherEmily E. BURDICK (1846-1928)
Spouses
Notes for William Grant CRANDALL
William G. Crandall
Submitted by Mary Kimberly, CFA # 224. Article from the Cortland (NY) Standard, November, 2002
W.G. Crandall was born in Quaker Basin, Madison County, on Jan. 2, 1876, to lra and Emily Burdick Crandall both from Seventh-Day Baptist stock. At the age of 15, he taught school in Union Valley and a few years later attended the Lowell Business Institute in Binghamton. While he was still a teenager, he began working as a cashier and bookkeeper for Yager and Marshall's Cortland Fair Store, a store that offered a wide variety of goods for the shopper's convenience. W.G.’s industriousness made a very favorable impression and, in a short time, he was assigned to manage the store in Homer. Within two years, he bought out Mr. Marshall's share of the Cortland Fair Store, bought a half-interest in the Homer store and helped establish a store in Moravia. Crandall advertised: “A Combined Buyingl Power of Three Stores of three floors in Three Places Centers here to Lower Prices for Benefit of our Customers''. His work ethic was described in a 1936 issue of “Holstein-Friesian World'' as “the world's best work is done usually by those who have found places for themselves instead of waiting for assignments.'' W.G. found another very striking place for himself in addition to pioneering his chain stores when his ill father, an auctioneer, asked him to fill in and call a sale. He was very successful and immediately in great demand. In his mostly local a auctioning career, he conduced over 3600 sales. Around the time of World War 1. W.G. sold his stores. Inspired by a rapid land sale he made through good advertising, he set up Crandall Realty Agency in his home. Another success, It came to be known as the agency “which has changed the address of thousands.''
While his real estate company thrived. W.G. shared his wealth and knowledge with the library, First Baptist Church various boards and service organizations, and the village itself where he served as mayor for a time and on the village board. When the Depression hit he felt compassion toward friends and acquaintances who had lost much of their means. Among those he helped were impoverished students who needed warm clothing or glasses., and indigent women living a the Home for Aged Women. And, he gave to other parts of the country as well showing special interest in the needs of farmers and others living in rural areas.
Submitted by Mary Kimberly, CFA # 224. Article from the Cortland (NY) Standard, November, 2002
W.G. Crandall was born in Quaker Basin, Madison County, on Jan. 2, 1876, to lra and Emily Burdick Crandall both from Seventh-Day Baptist stock. At the age of 15, he taught school in Union Valley and a few years later attended the Lowell Business Institute in Binghamton. While he was still a teenager, he began working as a cashier and bookkeeper for Yager and Marshall's Cortland Fair Store, a store that offered a wide variety of goods for the shopper's convenience. W.G.’s industriousness made a very favorable impression and, in a short time, he was assigned to manage the store in Homer. Within two years, he bought out Mr. Marshall's share of the Cortland Fair Store, bought a half-interest in the Homer store and helped establish a store in Moravia. Crandall advertised: “A Combined Buyingl Power of Three Stores of three floors in Three Places Centers here to Lower Prices for Benefit of our Customers''. His work ethic was described in a 1936 issue of “Holstein-Friesian World'' as “the world's best work is done usually by those who have found places for themselves instead of waiting for assignments.'' W.G. found another very striking place for himself in addition to pioneering his chain stores when his ill father, an auctioneer, asked him to fill in and call a sale. He was very successful and immediately in great demand. In his mostly local a auctioning career, he conduced over 3600 sales. Around the time of World War 1. W.G. sold his stores. Inspired by a rapid land sale he made through good advertising, he set up Crandall Realty Agency in his home. Another success, It came to be known as the agency “which has changed the address of thousands.''
While his real estate company thrived. W.G. shared his wealth and knowledge with the library, First Baptist Church various boards and service organizations, and the village itself where he served as mayor for a time and on the village board. When the Depression hit he felt compassion toward friends and acquaintances who had lost much of their means. Among those he helped were impoverished students who needed warm clothing or glasses., and indigent women living a the Home for Aged Women. And, he gave to other parts of the country as well showing special interest in the needs of farmers and others living in rural areas.