George Edmund Crosley, son of Moses and Arvilla Potter, was born January 19, 1875, in West Hallock, Ill., and died at Methodist Hospital in Madison, Wis., November 2, 1955.
In 1883 the family moved to Farina, Ill., where, under the leadership of Charles A. Burdick, he joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church in 1888. This membership was moved to Albion, Wis., where he was ordained deacon, and later to Milton where he also served as deacon and was a faithful member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church for 46 years.
In 1892 he came to Milton as a student, where he remained until he entered Hahnemann Medical School in Chicago from which he was graduated in 1897. He was active in his medical practice until a few days before his death.
In 1897 he married Lurana Adaline Burdick. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1947.
His medical career began in Algonquin, Ill., where he practiced for two and one-half years and where he was also an instructor in the Hahnemann Medical School.
In 1899, he relocated at Albion, Wis., where he practiced his profession until he came to Milton in 1909.
Dr. Crosley was active in church, social, civic, and educational affairs. During a period of thirty years he was associated with The Burdick Corporation as medical director and also as an officer of the company. (At the time of his death, his billfold contained his active membership cards in county, state and national medical groups.)
In recent years, the Wisconsin State Medical Society honored him with a pin recognizing fifty years as a physician in the state. For many years, he was a company surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. He had a lifelong interest in railroads. He was a pioneer in medical advancement, especially in the fields of x-ray and physical therapy. At one period he made regular trips to St. Louis as a lecturer on physical therapy.
One of his recreations was his interest in gardening.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. C. M. Sheldon of Albion and Mrs. Charles Michel of Marion, Iowa; nieces, nephews, and many friends.
