CLASS OF 1891

Dr. Leander James Crooker died of pneumonia at his home in Augusta, Me., November 27, 1921.

The son of Dr. Leander James (D.M.S. '71) and Fannie (Guppy) Crooker, he was born in Chelsea, Mass., October 10, 1869. His home from childhood was in Augusta, and he was educated in the public schools of that city and at Kent's Hill Seminary. He pursued his medical studies with his father, and at Bowdoin and Dartmouth.

Upon graduation he began practice in Augusta with his father, and after the latter's death in 1917 he continued by himself. He also conducted a drug store. Dr. Crooker was never married.