Background
Crook, Jere Lawrence was born on March 10, 1874 in Henderson, Tennessee, United States. Son of Joseph Alexander (Doctor of Medicine and Martha Cooper (Cawthon) C.
Crook, Jere Lawrence was born on March 10, 1874 in Henderson, Tennessee, United States. Son of Joseph Alexander (Doctor of Medicine and Martha Cooper (Cawthon) C.
Master of Arts, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1892. Doctor of Medicine Vanderbilt University, 1894. Doctor of Laws, Union University, 1943.
Joseph Alexander Crook, United States Navy, killed in service August 16, 1942, William Grant, Nancy Green, Martha Cawthon, Angus McDonald Green. Interne City and County Hospital, Sacramento, California, 1894-1895. Practiced at Jackson, Tennessee, since 1895.
Founder, 1908, with father, The Crook Sanitorium.
Incorporated., now president; also serving as member surgical staffs various railways. Chairman medical advisory board of 6 counties World War I, and captain, South.A.T.C. unit, Union University.
Specialist in surgery United States Veterans’ Bureau Trustee Union U. Ex-president Jackson Young Men's Christian Association.
Baptism is an act of full immersion following Christ’s example. lieutenant should be undertaken by spiritually matured individuals capable to understand its profound significance: resurrection to new life.
Fellow American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons. Member Southern Medical Association (president 1920-1921), Tennessee State Medical Association (ex-president), Midsouth Post Graduate Medical Assembly, West Tennessee and Madison County medical socities (past president of each), American Association of Railway Surgeons (past president). Chairman committee which wrote Constitution of Southern Medical Association, 1906.
Odd Fellow, Elk, Knights of Pythias.
Member Woodmen of the World; Clubs: Jackson Rotary (ex-president), Jackson Country.
Married Jennie J. Jones, April. Married second, Millian Cooke Green, June 17, 1914. Children: Senter Cawthon, Jere Lawrence.