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- Funeral services for Mrs. Lester M.
BABCOCK, 81, who died in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
- Thursday, Oct. 13, were held the following
Saturday afternoon in the Milton Seventh Day Baptist church.
The Rev. Elmo F. Randolph officiated and burial was in Milton
cemetery. Pallbearers were L. M. VAN HORN, Charles WILLIAMS,
Aaron BREITKREUTZ, Loyal TODD, K. A. BABCOCK
and J. Leland SKAGGS.
- Mary Anna, daughter of Carlton and
Mary Jane DOWSE CRUMB, was born Jan.
- 1, 1874. On June 13, 1899, She married
Lester Maxson BABCOCK who was a practicing dentist in
Milton many years. Four children were born to them, three of
whom survive. Miss Ruth BABCOCK, Philadelphia, Mrs.
N. C. LYSTER, Pittsburgh, and Miss Helen BABCOCK,
Waukesha. The son, Herbert BABCOCK, died in 1918.
Dr. BABCOCK died about two years ago. [Thursday edition,
p. 6]
- George Edmund CROSLEY, son of
Moses and Arvilla POTTER [CROSLEY],
- was born January 19, 1875, in West
Hallock, Ill., and died at Methodist Hospital in Madison, Wis.,
November 2, 1955.
- In 1883 the family moved to Farina,
Ill., where, under the leadership of Charles A.
- BURDICK,
he joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church in 1888. This membership
was moved to Albion, Wis., where he was ordained deacon, and
later to Milton where he also served as deacon and was a faithful
member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church for 46 years.
- In 1892 he came to Milton as a student,
where he remained until he entered
- Hahnemann Medical School in Chicago
from which he was graduated in 1897. He was active in his medical
practice until a few days before his death.
- In 1897 he married Lurana Adaline BURDICK.
They celebrated their golden
- wedding anniversary in 1947.
- His medical career began in Algonquin,
Ill., where he practiced for two and one-half
- years and where he was also an instructor
in the Hahnemann Medical School.
- In 1899, he relocated at Albion, Wis.,
where he practiced his profession until he came
- to Milton in 1909.
- Dr. CROSLEY was active in church,
social, civic, and educational affairs. During a
- period of thirty years he was associated
with The Burdick Corporation as medical director and also as
an officer of the company.
- (At the time of his death, his billfold
contained his active membership cards in county,
- state and national medical groups.)
- In recent years, the Wisconsin State
Medical Society honored him with a pin
- recognizing fifty years as a physician
in the state. For many years, he was a company surgeon for
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. He had a lifelong
interest in railroads. He was a pioneer in medical advancement,
especially in the fields of x-ray and physical therapy. At
one period he made regular trips to St. Louis as a lecturer on
physical therapy.
- One of his recreations was his interest
in gardening.
- Besides his wife, he is survived by
two sisters, Mrs. C. M. SHELDON of Albion and
- Mrs. Charles MICHEL of Marion,
Iowa; nieces, nephews, and many friends. [Thursday edition,
p. 6]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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