Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-10
AUGUSTA LOCALS
DR.. CROKER
One of Names Best
Known Physicians Dies
Was Founder Of Ocean Point-Many
Years. . Resident Of Aususta-cams
from len7 Line Of Doctors

Will be held at 1880, Friday. at the
Unitarian church, Trinity Com
mandery having charge of the serv-
ices.
Parents-Dr Sebra Croker and
PAMELA tDurland) Croker Of Brook
field. Queens county. Nova Scotia.
DR.. Sebra vas a native of Wiscasset,
Maine. but went TO Nova Scotia when
a very young man. Married in Law
rencetown. n $. Located in Brook
field and VAS the first physician to
. settle in that part Of the Province.
/ This family IS distinctly English. trac-
ing back 10 the Crookers of Lineham
in the County Devon. England. where
the family was settled at the time Of
tho Norman Conquest.
The Durlandss Brightly Van der
. Iinds) descended from Peter Van der
: Lind who, after the taking of New
Amsterdam by the English. went with
other Dutch people TO Nova Scotia and
settled among the French people. rath-
or than 10 remain under British rule.
I He married Sarah de Mothe, a French
HuEuenot lady
! Leanfer J. Crooker was fourth of a
family ~ seven.
Born in Liverpool Nova Scotia. Feb
- 1897
~ hfeen left home and came to
= Maine Spent one spring summer and
fall With married sister IN Somer-
viilo. attending school and working on
. farms. Went into the woods in the
: winter as cookee and cook In lumber
camp
The next wear found him travelling
at'u' rom house ~ house repairing
? Clcck-
. He took 70 medicine and surgery and
was round ~ he physician. Fear
Ing his daring venturesom. snjr,t
NoGld lead him 70 attempt moro than
no could perform. his relatives and
TRENDS did their host TO discourage
MIN and turn him from tho coal ,Inon
which he had set his hopes
Tho" failed
Clock repairing hrough. ~ h,ro tho
money which paid the exrense of j..
course ~ medical study ar,e- which he
went 70 his homo in Nova Scotia His
father. 20 turn him from profeseiop,,
NE refused - help him complete his
medical oducation
Tho Ian in regard ~ tho nrac.ioo 80
medicine vas not as strict MS now
hcander picked NJ q case now and
'nen ana ~" results of his treatment
"'r' sHcn mar soon people wero CON,
ms 70 MN in rapidly increasing num-
hers ""'ii
ne vas NOT quite twenty whom bo
hnputated carcerous breast of
anN in CORVALLIS. y = whom, ,oca1
"oc'0rs ha1 given M. She lived many
YEAR after and the reputation Of tho
RoN surgeon" was established in ,b,.
region - VIA
Located in Vassalboro Me. in 1887
Married Clara r. Tarhell Of yass,I-
horo in lSas
81" died in 1862
ms oder brother Or. Aaron p
rocker ~ RclSradc. Me died in 1861
ana leander moved 10 Belgrade ana
LOOK his brothers practice.
lN6o-Went 10 Boston opened an If
ne on court street and that wear tool
second course Of medical Lectures n
Harvard Medical ~
ne had taken 50 naturally 70 r,o5;
''ne ana surgery that he had aIreadr
peiioFmed successfully and treatcd
InasterfullN most of the operations ana
IneoicaI cases the professors Iec,ured
upon "hen nc took that second courso
IN 1857 he married Fannie A Gunny
hoston and in 1869 their only child
vas norma boy named for his father
1885 'a' NOV. D.
II was not until 1870 that the press
BUSINESS 10y up sufficiently 10 enable
~, :" 'dhe 'ho hnal course of lectures
90 IT examinations that would grant
him the degree Of NJ n The f.ct IT,.
r Viz neaIth was so poor It was
necessary 70 move her 10 n Different
he.
caused him 70 move 10 Maine and To-
cate in Augusta As this chance
enniNalant to starting anew. he eave
himuelf the time to attend a course a.,
Dartmouth College and gain his derroa
which was awarded him after h. rad
heen thirteen years a very active and
busy practitioner OF medicine ana
surgery. Gnu
In the fall ~ 1870 he became Tho
partner and associate OF DR., Geo =
fEickett their ONCE being on Sta.a
street
TWO wears later prospects looked so
Food that he withdrew from, the mar,
rfFshlH. Roueht the house now owre,
Ne'rI'l" Smith next 10 the Ran,ist
t,urch. '''p''s'
fror' then until the Rennett h,oci.
NJ huit opposite the Court House
l'r 'rHokers once was in Tho ola
Efnnoc House. on the completion n,
INC F'n"ett block he occupied offices
'Af'c 'or sig vears-from there be
ircTe7 70 tho Masonic Temple. His
49, ~noe" about 10 wears aro) was 70
tho r = Allen building
From 's7s 70 'sos hero was no, a
buster physician In Nolr4
Not known surcic.l orcrat;on Of
those DAYS that nc 6lA rc, perform
with signal success. though -ranv or
ITEM we're performea ur'er iirculties
me- encountered now.
He never kept count Of his surgical
a-hievemen's SO thore r., ~ oav Of
CITING nny estimation (numnricallv) OF
h's work
- wears advanced upon him. he
United his work 10 consultation and
oT-c practice and tho dread d,sea SO
tNht took him from ue found him still,
"'r harness" ard just rounding the
si'' ,'e2r ~ his lifH and the sIst in ac-
tive r'edical practice
- Crooke- intere-ted himself in
rsthiiC 1Watrs Ard fS- ve,rs ras o,.;..n