Denver-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Crews, George Beggs 1856 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 December 21, 2008, 3:28 am Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918) GEORGE BEGGS CREWS, M. D. Widely known in Denver is Dr. George B. Crews, who for many years has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. Illinois claims him as a native son, his birth having occurred in Cass county on the 25th of July, 1856. His parents were William J. and Mary E. (Beggs) Crews. The father was a native of Kentucky, while the mother was born in Illinois, and the former accompanied his parents on their removal from the Blue Grass state to Illinois, where they settled in pioneer times. Arriving in Cass county in 1830, the grandfather turned his attention to the occupation of farming there and was one of the first to break the virgin soil in that region. William J. Crews there also followed the occupation of farming until some years after his marriage. His wife passed away in Cass county. Illinois, in 1865 and he later removed to Kansas. where he operated a sawmill. On leaving that state he went to Arkansas, making his way into the lumber district, where he set up a sawmill, which he continued to operate until his health failed him because of the swampy nature of the country. He died in Augusta. Arkansas, in 1872. Dr. Crews, who had accompanied his father to the southwest, then returned to Illinois, where he entered school, pursuing his studies at Virginia, Illinois, where he passed through consecutive grades to the high school. He completed his course in 1875 and for four years thereafter he was a student in the Illinois Wesleyan University. With his savings he paid his tuition in the Northwestern Medical College of Chicago and completed his course by graduation in the class of 1883, at which time his professional degree was conferred upon him. He then went to China as a missionary of the Methodist church and remained abroad from 1883 until 1889, practicing his profession and making converts to the church by his religious teaching. On his return he came to Denver and opened an office in this city in 1889. Through the intervening period of almost thirty years he has been one of the successful practitioners not only of the city but of the state and for ten years he was a member of the faculty of the Denver Medical College as professor of pharmacology. He has done post-graduate work along the line of his profession and is constantly promoting his knowledge and advancing his efficiency through broad reading and study. Dr. Crews was married in Normal, Illinois, on the 31st of July. 1883, to Miss Kate V. Town, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Zerah Town, of a well known family of Bloomington, Illinois. They have become parents of four children: Luella, who was born in Denver in 1890 and is a graduate of the Denver high school; Helen, who was born in 1892 and is a graduate of the University of Denver; Floyd, who was born in 1897 and is now a sophomore in the University of Denver; and Mary, who was born in 1900 and is a pupil in the Denver high school. The other members of Dr. Crews' family are his brother Charles, who is a business man of Pueblo, Colorado, and a sister, Mrs. Mollie Besly, living in Denver, while another sister, Luella, died in infancy. In politics Dr. Crews is a republican where national questions and issues are involved but casts an independent local ballot. He concentrates the major part of his time and attention upon his professional duties and he belongs to the Denver City and County Medical Society, the Colorado State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. From the outset of his professional career he has manifested the deepest interest in the science of medicine and all that has to do with the laws of health. Anything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life awakens his attention and he is very quick to discriminate between the essential and the non-essential in all that regards professional activity. He diagnoses his cases most carefully and his judgment is seldom, if ever, at fault. His record proves that power grows through the exercise of effort and, never content with what he has already accomplished, he is constantly pushing his way upward to higher planes, giving him a broader outlook and wider opportunities. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF COLORADO ILLUSTRATED VOLUME III CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1918 Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/denver/photos/bios/crews67nbs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/denver/bios/crews67nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cofiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb