BIO: John Walker CROFT, M.D., Waynesboro, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 203
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JOHN WALKER CROFT, M. D.

  J. W. Croft was born at St. Thomas in 1874, a son of George W. and Sarah Jane 
(Walker) Croft.  He received his education in the common and select schools and 
taught for one year in the rural schools of St. Thomas Township.

  Dr. Croft studied medicine with Dr. Wm. F. Skinner at St. Thomas and was 
graduated M. D. in 1899 from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.  After 
graduation Dr. Croft located in Waynesboro, where he since has been in active 
practice of medicine.  Dr. Croft is especially interested in Roentgenology, for 
which work he has his office equipped with the latest appliances.  His 
reputation in this line of work extends beyond the limits of his immediate 
practice.

  He has been a member of the Medical Society since 1900 and was President in 
1907.  He is a member of the staff of the Waynesboro Hospital.  He married 
Carrie G. Brandt of Chambersburg, Pa.