From Warren Cushing:
As a young man Lawrence apparently was determined to study medicine and upon completing his college studies at Hedding College, a small Methodist college in Abington, Illinois, he obtained a position teaching school in the country near his home (1898-1900), and began to set aside the monies to attend medical school (note: his father had hoped that he would become a minister and therefore did not help him financially in his pursuit of a medical career.)
Lawrence attended Rush Medical College, working his way through with part time jobs. He delivered papers and waited on table. In his second year he rode a bicycle ten miles to take care of a doctor's office. During the summer vacations, he went to Wisconsin with a classmate and peddled stereopticon views and made $140 that summer. During the second summer he nursed (as a male nurse) at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago and also at Cook County Hospital for $15 per week. In his junior year he attended summer school and he graduated in the spring quarter 1904, months ahead of his class. He served his residency, as house physician, at the Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Illinois.
In January 1905 through a Dr. Pierce in Joliet, he met Dr. Frank A. Wiley in Earlville, Illinois and went to assist Dr. Wiley in his office and to make all the country calls. He drove a horse at first. Dr Wiley tells the story that Lawrence drove a horse that used to run away with him every so often and L.P.C. would say: "I don't know what's the matter with that fool horse. I treat him good and feed him well." He stayed with Dr. Wiley until 1911. Then he moved to a small town, Triumph, Illinois- where there was no doctor.
Lawrence married Miss Ruth Ann Dickson on 3-22-1905 in Lasalle Co. Illinois near the village of Triumph and opened an office in the town. She died in January 1908.
Lawrence prospered as a country doctor and at the time of his marriage to Miss Ruby Dorothea Bergeson on 12-23-1916 in Lasalle Co. Illinois, the newspaper article noting this included a description of Dr. Crawford, as follows: five or six years ago, he went to Triumph, there being a vacancy in the medical profession at that town and has since added to his practice wonderfully, doing a prodigious amount of work in the country. He is a gentleman of fine attainments and the highest honor and integrity.
Because his wife's uncle, Dr. John Bergeson, was a noted physician in Boston and because there was a need for physicians in the Boston area, Lawrence moved his family to the town of Wollaston Mass. in 1917. He practiced medicine there until his death on 12-11-1936 (note: he had been an invalid for the two years previous to his death).
As a young man Lawrence apparently was determined to study medicine and upon completing his college studies at Hedding College, a small Methodist college in Abington, Illinois, he obtained a position teaching school in the country near his home (1898-1900), and began to set aside the monies to attend medical school (note: his father had hoped that he would become a minister and therefore did not help him financially in his pursuit of a medical career.)
Lawrence attended Rush Medical College, working his way through with part time jobs. He delivered papers and waited on table. In his second year he rode a bicycle ten miles to take care of a doctor's office. During the summer vacations, he went to Wisconsin with a classmate and peddled stereopticon views and made $140 that summer. During the second summer he nursed (as a male nurse) at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago and also at Cook County Hospital for $15 per week. In his junior year he attended summer school and he graduated in the spring quarter 1904, months ahead of his class. He served his residency, as house physician, at the Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Illinois.
In January 1905 through a Dr. Pierce in Joliet, he met Dr. Frank A. Wiley in Earlville, Illinois and went to assist Dr. Wiley in his office and to make all the country calls. He drove a horse at first. Dr Wiley tells the story that Lawrence drove a horse that used to run away with him every so often and L.P.C. would say: "I don't know what's the matter with that fool horse. I treat him good and feed him well." He stayed with Dr. Wiley until 1911. Then he moved to a small town, Triumph, Illinois- where there was no doctor.
Lawrence married Miss Ruth Ann Dickson on 3-22-1905 in Lasalle Co. Illinois near the village of Triumph and opened an office in the town. She died in January 1908.
Lawrence prospered as a country doctor and at the time of his marriage to Miss Ruby Dorothea Bergeson on 12-23-1916 in Lasalle Co. Illinois, the newspaper article noting this included a description of Dr. Crawford, as follows: five or six years ago, he went to Triumph, there being a vacancy in the medical profession at that town and has since added to his practice wonderfully, doing a prodigious amount of work in the country. He is a gentleman of fine attainments and the highest honor and integrity.
Because his wife's uncle, Dr. John Bergeson, was a noted physician in Boston and because there was a need for physicians in the Boston area, Lawrence moved his family to the town of Wollaston Mass. in 1917. He practiced medicine there until his death on 12-11-1936 (note: he had been an invalid for the two years previous to his death).
From Warren Cushing:
As a young man Lawrence apparently was determined to study medicine and upon completing his college studies at Hedding College, a small Methodist college in Abington, Illinois, he obtained a position teaching school in the country near his home (1898-1900), and began to set aside the monies to attend medical school (note: his father had hoped that he would become a minister and therefore did not help him financially in his pursuit of a medical career.)
Lawrence attended Rush Medical College, working his way through with part time jobs. He delivered papers and waited on table. In his second year he rode a bicycle ten miles to take care of a doctor's office. During the summer vacations, he went to Wisconsin with a classmate and peddled stereopticon views and made $140 that summer. During the second summer he nursed (as a male nurse) at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago and also at Cook County Hospital for $15 per week. In his junior year he attended summer school and he graduated in the spring quarter 1904, months ahead of his class. He served his residency, as house physician, at the Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Illinois.
In January 1905 through a Dr. Pierce in Joliet, he met Dr. Frank A. Wiley in Earlville, Illinois and went to assist Dr. Wiley in his office and to make all the country calls. He drove a horse at first. Dr Wiley tells the story that Lawrence drove a horse that used to run away with him every so often and L.P.C. would say: "I don't know what's the matter with that fool horse. I treat him good and feed him well." He stayed with Dr. Wiley until 1911. Then he moved to a small town, Triumph, Illinois- where there was no doctor.
Lawrence married Miss Ruth Ann Dickson on 3-22-1905 in Lasalle Co. Illinois near the village of Triumph and opened an office in the town. She died in January 1908.
Lawrence prospered as a country doctor and at the time of his marriage to Miss Ruby Dorothea Bergeson on 12-23-1916 in Lasalle Co. Illinois, the newspaper article noting this included a description of Dr. Crawford, as follows: five or six years ago, he went to Triumph, there being a vacancy in the medical profession at that town and has since added to his practice wonderfully, doing a prodigious amount of work in the country. He is a gentleman of fine attainments and the highest honor and integrity.
Because his wife's uncle, Dr. John Bergeson, was a noted physician in Boston and because there was a need for physicians in the Boston area, Lawrence moved his family to the town of Wollaston Mass. in 1917. He practiced medicine there until his death on 12-11-1936 (note: he had been an invalid for the two years previous to his death).
As a young man Lawrence apparently was determined to study medicine and upon completing his college studies at Hedding College, a small Methodist college in Abington, Illinois, he obtained a position teaching school in the country near his home (1898-1900), and began to set aside the monies to attend medical school (note: his father had hoped that he would become a minister and therefore did not help him financially in his pursuit of a medical career.)
Lawrence attended Rush Medical College, working his way through with part time jobs. He delivered papers and waited on table. In his second year he rode a bicycle ten miles to take care of a doctor's office. During the summer vacations, he went to Wisconsin with a classmate and peddled stereopticon views and made $140 that summer. During the second summer he nursed (as a male nurse) at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago and also at Cook County Hospital for $15 per week. In his junior year he attended summer school and he graduated in the spring quarter 1904, months ahead of his class. He served his residency, as house physician, at the Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Illinois.
In January 1905 through a Dr. Pierce in Joliet, he met Dr. Frank A. Wiley in Earlville, Illinois and went to assist Dr. Wiley in his office and to make all the country calls. He drove a horse at first. Dr Wiley tells the story that Lawrence drove a horse that used to run away with him every so often and L.P.C. would say: "I don't know what's the matter with that fool horse. I treat him good and feed him well." He stayed with Dr. Wiley until 1911. Then he moved to a small town, Triumph, Illinois- where there was no doctor.
Lawrence married Miss Ruth Ann Dickson on 3-22-1905 in Lasalle Co. Illinois near the village of Triumph and opened an office in the town. She died in January 1908.
Lawrence prospered as a country doctor and at the time of his marriage to Miss Ruby Dorothea Bergeson on 12-23-1916 in Lasalle Co. Illinois, the newspaper article noting this included a description of Dr. Crawford, as follows: five or six years ago, he went to Triumph, there being a vacancy in the medical profession at that town and has since added to his practice wonderfully, doing a prodigious amount of work in the country. He is a gentleman of fine attainments and the highest honor and integrity.
Because his wife's uncle, Dr. John Bergeson, was a noted physician in Boston and because there was a need for physicians in the Boston area, Lawrence moved his family to the town of Wollaston Mass. in 1917. He practiced medicine there until his death on 12-11-1936 (note: he had been an invalid for the two years previous to his death).
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