Allegheny County, PA--Bios--Kroesen (K625)

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             A contemporary biographical sketch of 
                  William B. Kroesen, MD (1889)
 
Dr. W. B. Kroesen, Etna, was born August 17, 1839
in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania.  His father, John
Kroesen, a native of Martinsburg, Virginia, came
to this county with his father Isaiah Kroesen when
he was but fifteen years old.  John, a cooper by
trade, married Anna Otterson and eight children
blessed their union.  The subject of this memoir
was educated in his native town; read medicine
with Dr. Oldshoe and Dr. Jacoby, and took his
first course of lectures at the Eclectic
Pennsylvania Medical College, graduating in 1865.
After practicing at Talley Cavey a number of
years, he took a post-graduate course in the
medical college of Physicians and Surgeons,
Cincinnati, graduating in the class of 1873.  He
then located in Etna, where he now enjoys liberal
patronage.  He married Jane Wiggins and has two
children:  Cora J. and George T.  
     Dr. Kroesen enlisted in April, 1861 in the
three months service, and on the expiration of his
term re-enlisted in Co. D, 103d regiment, for
three years.  He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant of
Co. K, and participated in all the engagements of
his regiment until wounded at the Battle of Fair
Oaks.  He served three terms as school director,
and in 1888 organized the first fire department,
of which he is chief.   He organized G.A.R. Post
No. 38, and is past medical director of the G.A.R.
in Pennsylvania.  He is also a member of the A.F.
and A.M.A., O.U.W., I.O.O.F., G.A.R., U.V.L., A.O.
of H. and R.A.  He has represented the I.O.O.F,
R.A. and G.A.R. in national encampments, and
erected two councils of the R.A.


Cushing, Thomas, ed. A Genealogical and
Biographical History of Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania, 1889.  Reprinted 1993, Genealogical
Publishing Company, Baltimore. (pp. 420-1)