Dallas County IA Archives Biographies.....Criley, Benton Houston 1850 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

BENTON HOUSTON CRILEY, M. D., one of the successful physicians and surgeons of
Dallas county, now located at Dallas Center, where he has an extensive and
lucrative practice, is a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, born October 4,
1850, and a son of Conrad and Sarah (Crouse) Criley, who were also born in
Chester county, where they passed away, the former at the age of seventy years,
and the latter at the age of fifty-two.

   The Doctor is one of a family of eight children, seven of whom are still
living. Early in life he became self-supporting, and worked for wages as a farm
hand earning the money to pay for his education, which was obtained in the
district schools, after which he took a course in the high school of
Coatesville, Pennsylvania. On leaving the school room, at the age of sixteen
years, he became a telegraph operator, and continued to follow that occupation
for about a year. He then went to Morseville, Jo Daviess county, Illinois, where
he commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. D. F. Crouse, with whom
he remained for a year, when he entered the medical department of the Michigan
University at Ann Arbor, where he pursued his studies for a year. For the same
length of time he was then assistant to his former preceptor, after which he
attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and on
completing the course in 1871 came direct to Dallas Center. Here he opened an
office and now ranks among the foremost in his profession in the State, being
called in consultation frequently in some of the most difficult cases in this
part of Iowa.

   The Doctor is a close student. In the winter of 1873-4 he took a
post-graduate course in New York, and another in the same city during the winter
of 1879-80, and in October, 1890, he went to Philadelphia, where he spent seven
months, further perfecting his education and familiarizing himself with all the
most approved methods in the sciences of medicine and surgery. He is decidedly
progressive, and by a systematic course of reading during his leisure hours
keeps himself well abreast of the times in all that pertains to the advancement
of his profession. Besides having built up a large and paying practice, he has
accumulated some farm property, all of which has been acquired through his own
exertions.

   In September, 1880, the Doctor was united in marriage with Miss Addie L.
Morgan, a daughter of John Morgan. Her parents are New York people, now making
their home in Victor, Iowa. To the Doctor and his wife has been born one son,
Clarence Holmes, whose birth occurred in Dallas Center, on the 30th of August,
1881.

   Dr. Criley is an ardent Democrat in political sentiment, and cast his first
presidential vote for General Hancock. He is connected with several medical and
secret societies, being a charter member and the first president of the new
County Medical Association; and also a member of the State Medical Association,
the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, the Western Gynecological
Association, the American Medical Association, and is a prominent Mason. He is a
man of fine personal appearance, in manner is pleasant and genial, is highly
educated and is a gentleman of cultivated tastes.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


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