Dr. GeorgeW. Crum
DR. GEORGE W. CRUM, farmer and physician,town 17, range 11, section 35, post office Arenzville, was born on thehomestead adjoining. (See sketch of James Crum.) Dr. Crum began his educationin the district schools. From there he went to the Illinois College atJacksonville for one year, and then attended two years at the State NormalSchool at Normal, Illinois. He then attended three years the Illinois WesleyanCollege, receiving the degrees of B. A. and M. A. from that popular institution.From there he went to Adrian, Michigan, to complete his scientific course.He received the degree of B. S. at Adrian, and completed a full classicalcourse at the Wesleyan College. He studied medicine under private tutorsduring his vacations, and then attended the St. Louis Medical College,receiving the degree of M. D. in 1874. His close application to study hadundermined his health, and he felt obliged to retire to the farm to recuperate.On completing his professional course he entered upon the duties imposedby the office of hospital physician, but this was terminated by failinghealth. He intends to resume practice during the coming year.
He was married August 21, 1878, to MollieE., daughter of Dr. David Malone, now deceased. Mrs. Crum was born in Poseycounty, Indiana. They have two children, Cora and Olga, eleven and thirteenyears old.
The Doctor is not an aggressive politician.He owns a farm of 160 acres of well improved land, adjoining that of hisfather. Mrs. Crum is a lady of fine literary attainments, a graduate ofthe Athenaeum College at Jacksonville, Illinois. Her only brother is aphysician there. Her sisters, Alice, Emma and Rosa, all married into representativeand prominent families. Alice was the wife of William Morrison, and diedin Iowa; Emma became the wife of Robert McCurdy, of Princeton, Indiana;and Rosa married Elijah Needham, of Virginia, Illinois. She is not nowliving. Mrs. Crum is a member of the Christian Church, and her husbandis a member of the I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W. They are very worthypeople.
Biographical Review of Cass, Schuylerand Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical Review Publishing Co., Chicago,1892, page 219.
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