Dr. J. R. Crawford

Dr. J. R. Crawford, physician and surgeon, a native of Washington county, Iowa, obtained an elementary education in the schools of that county, and completed a literary course at Keokuk, Iowa. He entered the study of medicine under the direction of his brother, Dr. W. D. Crawford, of Coal Valley, Ill., who was his preceptor until he matriculated in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Ia., in 1S79. He took a full course of lectures there and won the graduate's diploma in 1882. The succeeding year he practiced in Mills county, Iowa, and coining to Stark county established his office at Lafayette in the spring of 1884. Since that time he has built up a lucrative practice and a very enviable reputation as a physician. In 1881 he married Miss S. M. Phillips, of Coal Valley. He is a member of the Military Tract Medical Society.