1878- Dr. Crane assumes Methodist pastorante in Port Jervis, New York; Stephen begins his first schooling in the town which would become his "Whilomville."

 

1880- Jonathan Townley Crane dies, February 16.

 

1883- Mrs. Crane moves with Stephen to Asbury Park, New Jersey.

 

1888- Stephen enrolls as student at Hudson River Institute (and Claverack College), Claverack, New York. In summer begins to assist brother Townley  Crane with his press Bureau at Asbury Park.

 

1890- Stephen enters Lafayette College as engineering student, September 12; joins Delta Upsilon fraternity; fails course and leaves after Christmas vacation.

 

1891- Registers, Jan. 9, at Syracuse University ; plays catcher and shortstop on varsity baseball team; reports for newspaper; attends few classes. In summer meets Hamlin Garland after reporting Garland lecture on realism. Does not return to college in fall but tries to establish self in New York City. Mary Helen Peck Crane dies, December 7.

 

1892- Fails to hold newspaper jobs. Publication of some "Sullivan County Sketches."

 

1893- Private printing, paid for by Crane, of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; through Garland, gains friendship of W.D. Howell. Begins The Red Badge of Courage.

 

1894- Begins writing poems. Begins George's Mother. "An Experiment in Misery" and "An Experiment in Luxury" published. The Red Badge published (abridged) by Bacheller Syndicate in newspaper.

 

1895- Crane starts West to report for Bacheller. Final revision of The Red Badge made in New Orleans; to Mexico, March 12. The Black Riders published May 11. The Red Badge of Courage published October 5; by December, Crane an international literary celebrity.

 

1896- George's Mother; Maggie; The LIttle Regiment; The Third Violet, various other stories and some poems all published. Crane becomes butt of envious, malicious gossip in New York: the Dora Clark case makes him victim of persecution by police; to Jacksonville, Florida, as correspondent to Cuban insurrection, November; meets Cora Taylor.

 

1897- January 2, shipwrecked from Commodore off Florida coast; "The Monster," "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," "Death and the Child." Meets Joseph Conrad.

 

1898-The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure. To the United States to volunteer for Spanish-American war service; rejected by Navy, goes as war correspondent for Pulitzer; involves self as daringly as possible in combat action at Guantanamo, Cuzco, Las Guasimas, San Juan Hill; writes some war's best dispatches; invalided home and discharged, returns at once for Hearst to Puerto Rico; "disappears" into Havana. To New York in November.

 

1899- To England where Cora had manoral "Brede Place" and a mountain od their debts waiting for him; writes desperately to catch up. War is Kind; Active Service; The Monster and Other Stories published. At big Christmas Week houseparty Crane suffers massive tubercular hemorrhage.

 

1900- Whilomville Stories; Wounds in the Rain; Great Battles of the World published. Crane works on The O'Ruddy (finished by Robert Barr, 1903) and the pieces which appeared as Last Words, 1902. Dies, Baden weiler, Germany, June 5.

 

Stephen Crane

Edwin H. Cady