Lucas County IA Archives Biographies.....Croston, Thomas 1846 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

THOMAS CROSTON, M. D., as Mayor of Lucas, Iowa, as president of its School
Board, and as one of its leading physicians and surgeons, occupies a position of
distinguished importance here, and is a fit subject for biographical honors. For
fifteen years he has maintained his residence in Lucas, and has all this time
been a prominent factor in the town.

   Like a number of the leading citizens of Iowa, Dr. Croston is a native of
England. He was born near Manchester, December 12, 1846. His father, Henry
Croston, was a native of the same place, and was by occupation a contractor and
manager of mines, his operations being carried on near Bolton. He met his death
through an accident in the mines, in England, when sixty-six years of age. The
Doctor's mother died in England, at the age of seventy. He was their only child,
and was reared in his native place, having the advantages of a fair education in
his youth. Choosing the medical profession, he pursued his studies under the
instructions of Professor John Skelton, a prominent physician and surgeon, and
the author of some popular medical works, of the Eclectic school.

   After completing his medical studies, Dr. Croston left his native land,
crossed the Atlantic and established himself in the United States, settling
first in Steubenville, Ohio, where he was engaged in the practice of his
profession for four years. At the end of that time he returned to England, and
in 1880 came back to America, this time selecting for a place of location the
prosperous town of Lucas, Iowa, which has since been his home. Here by his skill
as a physician and surgeon he has built  up and maintained an excellent
practice, and has an enviable reputation throughout the town and surrounding
country. From the date of his settlement here he became thoroughly identified
with the affairs of Lucas, and for the deep interest he has shown in its
educational and municipal matters has been honored with official position. For
four years he was Health Officer for the town of Lucas, and for eight years he
has been a member of the School Board, of which he is at this writing its
president. Much credit and praise is due him and his colaborers for the high
standard the schools of Lucas have attained. In 1889 he was elected a member of
the City Council, was twice re-elected, and remained as a member six years. In
1895 Dr. Croston was honored by election to the office of Mayor of this city,
which office he is now filling most efficiently.

   The Doctor was married in England to Miss Eliza Fletcher, a native of that
place and an accomplished and charming woman. They have three children,—Ellen,
Earnest and George. All have received good education, and George is a graduate
of the Lucas high school, with the class of 1895, being seventeen at the time of
his graduation.

   Dr. Croston was reared a Wesleyan Methodist, but is not a church member. He
has been initiated into the mysteries of Masonry, and has a membership in Good
Shepherd Lodge, No. 424, F. & A. M., of Lucas. He is a man of broad and
progressive views, is generous and public-spirited, and is in every sense a
thorough gentleman.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

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CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896

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