. A modern history of New London County, Connecticut;. Island, July 21,1856, and died in Norwich, May I, 1909; and MorganSafford, born November 29, 1873, and died November5, 1874. William B. L. Cranston was born in Providence,Rhode Island, March 17, 1855, and was educated inthe schools of Norwich, Connecticut, coming thereat the age of ten years with his father. In 1873 hebecame clerk in his fathers store, his brotherThomas entering the business at about the sametime. After the fathers death, William B. L. andThomas carried on the business until the lattersdeath in May 1909, when William B. L.
. A modern history of New London County, Connecticut;. Island, July 21,1856, and died in Norwich, May I, 1909; and MorganSafford, born November 29, 1873, and died November5, 1874. William B. L. Cranston was born in Providence,Rhode Island, March 17, 1855, and was educated inthe schools of Norwich, Connecticut, coming thereat the age of ten years with his father. In 1873 hebecame clerk in his fathers store, his brotherThomas entering the business at about the sametime. After the fathers death, William B. L. andThomas carried on the business until the lattersdeath in May 1909, when William B. L. took Smith into the business, which was incorpo-rated in 1914 under the name of the Cranston Com-pany. The business since 1916 has been located onBroadway, near the Wauregan Hotel, and the storeis recognized as one of the oldest and best-equippedstationery stores in Connecticut. Mr. Cranston isa Republican in politics, but has never cared for of-fice. He affiliates with St. James Lodge, No. 23,Free and Accepted Masons; Franklin Council, CyU/iA^M, l)r<^(A4^^yv)Ac;iAyi^ BIOGRAPHICAL 37 3, Royal and Select Masters; Franklin Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; and the Young Mens Chris-tian Association. He is one of the oldest Tuenibcrsof the Arcanum Club of Norwich, and was a charteriiicniber of the Chelsea Boat Club. In religion heis a Baptist, and was librarian of the Sunday schoolthere for twenty-five years. Mr. Cranston married, .Xugust 25, 1917, Julia .^nn(Morgan) Chapman, daughter of Stephen and Ma-tilda Jane (Lewis) Morgan. Mrs. Cranston has onechild, a son by her first marriage, Percy MorganChapman. ELISHA WATERMAN—Bearing a name thatearlier generations of his family carried in honorableparticipation in the stirring events of Colonial timesand in the arduous labors of pioneer life, ElishaWaterman, of Lebanon, Connecticut, former Repre-sentative and State Senator, traces a long and distin-guished ancestry in New England. The first American ancestor was Rob
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