On record at the Library of Congress under the heading "Crane, Frank, 1861–1928," this American minister left behind a documented life whose precise dates remain a matter of some ambiguity across sources.

Born in the United States in 1861 — with different records pointing to January 1 and May 12 as the possible date — Frank Crane worked as a Christian minister. The occupation placed him within a tradition of public religious life that, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, carried considerable reach beyond the pulpit. Crane pursued that vocation throughout his adult life, his American citizenship rooting him in the country where he was born and where he practiced.

The years of his death are similarly contested across cataloguing records. Some sources indicate he died on January 1, 1928, while others record the date as November 6 of that year. What the records agree upon is the year itself: 1928. The Library of Congress authorized heading, Open Library, and related cataloguing institutions all confirm the span of 1861 to 1928 as the frame of his life, lending that arc a measure of archival stability even where individual dates diverge.

The consistency with which institutions such as the Library of Congress and Open Library have maintained records of Crane's birth and death years suggests that, whatever uncertainty surrounds the finer details, his place in the documented history of American religious life has been considered worth preserving. The authorized heading "Crane, Frank, 1861–1928" stands as the form under which his work and name continue to be catalogued.