Crane & Breed Mfg. Co.

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(lcsh) Undertakers and undertaking--Equipment and supplies

found: Varnished and cloth covered wood and metallic caskets, 189- :title page (Crane & Breed Mfg. Co.; Cincinnati)

found: OCLC, May 22, 2013(headings: Crane & Breed Mfg. Co.; usages: Crane & Breed Mfg. Co.)

found: Coachbuilt website, viewed July 13, 2020:(Crane & Breed Co. was formed January 21, 1854 by Martin Hale Crane and Abel Denison Breed when a Marietta, Ohio businessman named John Mills bought out the interests of J.R. Barnes and Crane, Barnes & Co. [no publications in LC database] was reorganized as Crane, Breed & Company; the 1860-61 Cincinnati City Directory list the firm as: Crane, Breed & Co., manufacturers of stoves and hollow ware, also patent metallic burial cases and caskets, West Eighth, below Harriet; since the mid 1860s Martin H. Crane had been experimenting with rolled sheet iron as a less-expensive alternative to cast iron, and by the end of the decade he had perfected the industry's first sheet metal casket; its development also resulted in the firm's new steam heat and ventilation system division, which was headed by Crane; on August 8, 1882, Crane, Breed & Co. was reorganized as the Crane & Breed Manufacturing Company; by that time, the firm had gotten out of the heating and ventilation business which was now handled by the M.H. Crane Company [no publications in LC database], an entirely new firm headed by Martin H. Crane) - http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/c/crane_breed/crane_breed.htm