Jasper Crane (1881-1969) was an executive with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and a noted Presbyterian layman.

Jasper Elliot Crane was born on May 17, 1881 in Newark, New Jersey, to Edward N. Crane (1846–1911) and Cordelia C. Matthews Crane (1853-1916).

In 1908, he married Olive Crow (1883–1969) of Cleveland, Ohio. They had three daughters: Cordelia Crane Speakman (1909–1990), Helen Crane Rupert (1910-1977), and Catherine Crane (McAdoo/Babbs) Welling (1917-1991).

Crane was a plastics expert, who after graduating from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, went to work with the Arlington Company of Newark, New Jersey. Arlington was one of America's first plastics manufacturers, and when it was acquired by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in 1915 Crane became head of the Cellulose Division of DuPont's Chemical Department.

From 1920 to 1926, he managed DuPont's London office, in charge of purchasing, development, and financial activities. In 1926, he returned to the United States to head Lazote, Inc. (which became the DuPont Ammonia Corp. in 1929). In 1927, he became a director, and in 1929, a vice president and member of the Executive Committee of the DuPont Co. He continued in these positions until retirement in 1946.

Crane held many positions in the various organizations of which he was a member and was very active primarily as a fundraiser, for which he had great aptitude. He was president of the Princeton Engineering Association from 1931 to 1932. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University and of the Princeton Theological Seminary. He was also a member of the Visiting Committee, Department of Economics and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1960 to 1964.

He held many positions as a layman in the various administrative branches of the Presbyterian Church, both local and national. He was closely identified with another conservative Presbyterian layman, J. Howard Pew (1882-1971) of the Sun Oil Company. In 1955, he established the Curran Foundation to advance conservative principles in education. He was active in the anti-communist crusade of the 1950s, particularly in his support of The Freeman, a magazine which he and Pew underwrote between 1950 and 1957.

Until he resigned in 1968, he was a director for many years in the D. Van Nostrand Publishing Co., Inc., which had been owned by the Crane family for more than 100 years. During the Depression in the early 1930s, he was chairman of the Relief Commission, and from 1947 to 1950 was president of the United Fund.

He was a great lover of roses, and planted creditable gardens wherever he resided. His garden at his home in Westover Hills in Wilmington was a show place. One of his roses, "Charles K. Douglas," developed a sport, which Crane tenderly cared for, and had propagated by the Bosley Nurseries of Mentor, Ohio. Crane named the rose "Gay Gypsy" and had it patented. It was available on the open market after 1949. In 1952, he received the Jane Richter Rose Medal; he was a consulting rosarian for the American Rose Society, 1960 to 1961.