Edward Horatio Krans was born at St. Armand, Quebec in 1845.
He attended McGill University, where he obtained a Governor General's scholarship (B.A., first rank honors in logic and gold medalist in English literature, 1865), M.A., 1875; LL.D., 1887. He studied law for a time with Sir John Abbott, but subsequently entered the General Theological Seminary in New York. He was ordained to the diaconate in the Episcopal Church and became assistant minister of St. Mary's Church in New York. From 1869 to 1874 he was rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Boston and from 1874 to 1892 he was assistant rector of the Hearing and Speaking Congregation of St. Ann's Church in New York. He was also a trustee and first vice-president of the Church Mission to Deaf Mutes; president of the New York Graduates' Society of McGill University, and president of the New York Churchmen's Association. He was one of the originators, and during two terms president of the New York Clericus.
Rev. Krans published many sermons and other papers. In 1872 he married Charlotta W. Sheafe of Boston. He died in 1900 in New York.