CRESS BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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CRESS, L. L. - b: 1878 Salisbury, NC
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 343
residence: Clinton, Clinton Twp

Dr. L. L. Cress, a well-known and successful veterinary surgeon of Clinton, 
Missouri, is a native of North Carolina. He was born at Salisbury March 9, 1878, 
and is a son of Adolphus and America (Cody) Cress, both natives of North 
Carolina, and now residents of Salisbury. The Cress family is of Holland descent, 
members of whom settled near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, probably about 1700. 
Many descendants of these early Pennsylvania pioneers are scattered throughout 
the East, including Ohio and Illinois. The great-grandfather of Doctor Cress went 
to North Carolina and the Southern members of the Cress family are descendants 
from him. Many members of the Cress family served in the Revolutionary War in 
Washington's army. Americas Cody, mother of Doctor Cress, comes from a long 
line of Southern ancestors who suffered severe losses during the Civil War. The 
late William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," was a cousin of Doctor Cress' mother. Doctor 
Cress was one of a family of ten children all of whom are now living. He received 
his early education in Rowan County, North Carolina in an old log school house 
near Salisbury. Doctor Cress is a young man but he has experienced the 
atmosphere of the log school house. His early life was spent on his father's farm 
and in 1898 he came to Missouri and located at Clinton. Here he was employed by 
a veterinary surgeon, and young Cress soon discovered that he had a liking for the 
profession of his employer and under the preceptorship of his employer began the 
study of veterinary surgery, and at the same time getting considerable actual 
practice. He was thus employed for eighteen months when he entered the Kansas 
City School of Veterinary Surgery and after studying there two years, entered the 
Ontario Veterinary College at Toronto, Canada, where he was graduated in the 
Class of 1904. He then returned to Clinton, where he has since been engaged in 
the practice of his profession. Doctor Cress has met with well-merited success 
in his chosen profession and is one of the capable veterinary surgeons of the 
State, and is recognized as such. In 1910, Doctor Cress was united in marriage 
with Miss Pearl Hawkins of Clinton. They are both members of the Presbyterian 
Church. Doctor Cress is a man who has read a great deal and traveled much He has 
been in the East, the West and the South, but as he expresses it himself, after he 
returned to Missouri from a trip, he feels like "jumping up and cracking his heels 
together, and saying that he is glad he's back home."

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