Dr. Titus Cummings Crooker

1833 - 1898  (65 years)

• Name	Titus Cummings Crooker
  Prefix	Dr.
  Born	4 Apr 1833	Flamborough Township, Wentworth Co., Ontario   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193128604
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-204095
  Died	25 Dec 1898	Burlington, Halton Co., Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Buried	Bronte Pioneer Cemetery, Milton, Halton Co., Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Person ID	I204095	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family	Ada Katherine Buck,   b. 30 Aug 1839, Trafalgar, Halton Co., Ontario ,   d. 19 Sep 1931, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States  (Age 92 years)
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F299820	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Crooker,TitusCumming-0001-FindAGrave.jpg Dr. Titus Cumming Crooker - Find A Grave

  
  

• Notes

  Secretary's Office, Quebec, 22nd March, 1862 His Excellency The Governor General has been pleased to make the following appointments, viz: George R. Welden, Esquire, Associate Coroner, County of Hastings. Featherston Osler, of the City of Toronto, Esquire, Barrister at Law, to be a Notary Public in Upper Canada. His Excellency The Governor General has also been pleased to grant a License to Titus Crooker, of Hawksville, Esquire. M. D., to enable him to practise Physic, Surgery and Midwifery in Upper Canada. Canada Gazette - March 22, 1862 ______________ CROOKER, TITUS made a brief stay in this area, and the same might be said of a number of other localities. Regarding his antecenerits, no information has been found. He graduated from the University of Victoria College in 1859 and the first local mention of him is in a card dated May 1861 giving his location as Hawkesville. Since May 1861 is also the date of a card locationg him in St, Jacobs, there is some question of the duration of his stay in Hawkesville, He was in St. Jacobs until June 1862, and possibly longer - by October 1863 he was in Milton. He left Milton in the fall of 1866 to go to Great Britain, where he obtained his Membership in the Royal College of Surgeons in London and Edinburgh, as well as his Licentiate in Midwifery at both places. In 1867 he was in Hamilton, leaving there in 1880 for Milwaukee. He next went to Yaukehsa and subsequently practised at both these places. From there he went to Chicago. The News Record on February 17. 1898 reported him back in Hawkesville, but by February 23rd. he had left again, back to Chicago. After 1899 there is no further word of him. The search for information on Dr. Crooker led to a noteworthy response from the Public Library at Tillsonburg. Their museum curator had been a patient of a Doctor Crooker, a dentist who had practised there at the turn of the century. As a child being treated in his office, she became terrified, and jumping from the chair, ran home. Dr. Crooker, a dedicated man, followed her home and completed the extraction there. Dr. Alexander D. Campbell, Doctors in Waterloo County 1852-1925 _______________ Dr Titus Cummins Crooker was a son of John Keen Crooker and Grace Wear Stackhouse. He was apparently named after Titus Geer Cummins, the founder of Cumminsville. He graduated from Victoria College and the Toronto School of Medicine. He was practicing in Hawkesville in Wellington County when he married Ada Katherine Buck a daughter of John and Rachel Buck in Trafalgar Township on 13 May 1862. They had at least 4 children: John Elmer Crooker, William Baldwin Crooker, Frederick Bruce Crooker, and Frank Eugene Crooker. He practiced medicine advertising himself as a physician and surgeon on Main Street in Milton. By 1871 he the family lived in Hamilton and he practiced on James Street South. By 1880 he was practicing on Jefferson Street in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He became as naturalized citizen of the United States in 1889. Eleven years later when he died of heart disease he was living on Brant Street in Burlington Ontario. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193128604

  
  

• Sources

  [S3231] Find A Grave, (2019). Findagrave.com. Retrieved 16 April 2019, from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193128604/titus-cummins-crooker.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 4 Apr 1833 - Flamborough Township, Wentworth Co., Ontario Died - 25 Dec 1898 - Burlington, Halton Co., Ontario, Canada Buried - - Bronte Pioneer Cemetery, Milton, Halton Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth