Crebbin, John Thompson, (MD)

Submitted by Mike Miller

Crebbin, Dr. John Thompson, M. D., successful physician and president Louisiana State Board of Nurses Examiners, New Orleans, was born near Lawrence, Kan., son of John Hays and Annie J. (Thomson) Crebbin, the former of whom was born at Liverpool, England, 1849, and the latter in Ireland in the year 1853. The mother is resident in the city of New Orleans at this time. The paternal grandparents, John and Ellen (Hays) Crebbin, were natives, respectively, of the Isle of Man and of Liverpool, England. John Crebbin removed from the Isle of Man to Liverpool while a young man, and was later married at the latter place. In 1851, with his family, he came to America, and shortly after his arrival in this country located at the city of New Orleans, where he engaged in the shipwright business. During the Civil war he repaired vessels for the Confederate government, and did a large business, but in the course of this great sanguinary conflict he lost all of his property. However, he remained a resident of New Orleans during the remainder of his life, and in his later years devoted his energies to the shipping business. John Hays Crebbin, the father, was 2 years old when he came to New Orleans with his parents. He was educated in the public schools of the latter city, and there passed his youth and early manhood, but after his marriage removed to a location near Lawrence, Kan., where he engaged in farming. Later, he returned to New Orleans, where he devoted his abilities to the business of a carriage and wagon nianufacturer during the remainder of his days. John Thomson Crebbin was the first of 8 children born to his parents. Five of these children are living at this time. John Thomson attended the public schools, graduating from the high school, following which he took the commercial course at Soul college, New Orleans. In 1896 he entered Hahuemann Medical college and hospital, at Chicago, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1900. Immediately following the completion of his professional education he began the practice of medicine in New Orleans, where he has since remained and devoted his abilities to the requirements of his profession, and with results that must be in every way highly gratifying. Since 1911 he has been connected with the Postgraduate School of Medicine at Tulane university, as demonstrator of operative surgery of the ear, nose, and throat, also assistant surgeon of the Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat hospital. The Doctor also is president of the Louisiana State Board of Nurses Examiners, having been appointed by Gov. Hall in 1912. Dr. Crebbin is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and is affiliated with the Orleans Parish Medical and the Louisiana State Medical societies, American Medical association, Chess, Checkers and Whist club, Yacht club, and the Masonic fraternity. June 5, 1900, Dr. Crebbin was married to Miss Elise Ahrens, of New Orleans, a daughter of Rev. J. B. A. Ahrens, D. D., and Elise (Picker) Ahrens, the former a prominent divine of the M. E. church, South. One daughter, Elise, has been born to Dr. and Mrs. Crebbin.

Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 110-111. Edited by Alcee Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.