Biography of 	Crebbin, John Thompson, (MD); Lawrence, KA;  now Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Crebbin, Dr. John Thompson, M. D., successful physician and president
Louisiana State Board of Nurses Examiners, New Orleans, was born near
Lawrence, Kan., son of John Hays and Annie J. (Thomson) Crebbin, the former
of whom was born at Liverpool, England, 1849, and the latter in Ireland in
the year 1853.  The mother is resident in the city of New Orleans at this
time.  The paternal grandparents, John and Ellen (Hays) Crebbin, were
natives, respectively, of the Isle of Man and of Liverpool, England.  John
Crebbin removed from the Isle of Man to Liverpool while a young man, and
was later married at the latter place.  In 1851, with his family, he came
to America, and shortly after his arrival in this country located at the
city of New Orleans, where he engaged in the shipwright business.  During
the Civil war he repaired vessels for the Confederate government, and did a
large business, but in the course of this great sanguinary conflict he lost
all of his property.  However, he remained a resident of New Orleans during
the remainder of his life, and in his later years devoted his energies to
the shipping business.  John Hays Crebbin, the father, was 2 years old when
he came to New Orleans with his parents.  He was educated in the public
schools of the latter city, and there passed his youth and early manhood,
but after his marriage removed to a location near Lawrence, Kan., where he
engaged in farming.  Later, he returned to New Orleans, where he devoted
his abilities to the business of a carriage and wagon nianufacturer during
the remainder of his days.  John Thomson Crebbin was the first of 8
children born to his parents.  Five of these children are living at this
time.  John Thomson attended the public schools, graduating from the high
school, following which he took the commercial course at Soul  college, New
Orleans.  In 1896 he entered Hahuemann Medical college and hospital, at
Chicago, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in the class of
1900.  Immediately following the completion of his professional education
he began the practice of medicine in New Orleans, where he has since
remained and devoted his abilities to the requirements of his profession,
and with results that must be in every way highly gratifying.  Since 1911
he has been connected with the Postgraduate School of Medicine at Tulane
university, as demonstrator of operative surgery of the ear, nose, and
throat, also assistant surgeon of the Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat hospital.
The Doctor also is president of the Louisiana State Board of Nurses
Examiners, having been appointed by Gov. Hall in 1912.  Dr. Crebbin is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and is affiliated with the
Orleans Parish Medical and the Louisiana State Medical societies, American
Medical association, Chess, Checkers and Whist club, Yacht club, and the
Masonic fraternity.  June 5, 1900, Dr. Crebbin was married to Miss Elise
Ahrens, of New Orleans, a daughter of Rev. J. B. A. Ahrens, D. D., and
Elise (Picker) Ahrens, the former a prominent divine of the M. E. church,
South.  One daughter, Elise, has been born to Dr. and Mrs. Crebbin.

Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp.
110-111.  Edited by Alcee Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century
Historical Association.