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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 728-729
F. M. CRONIN, M.D., one of the very prominent physicians of Lancaster, Grant county, was born in Platteville, same county, June 16, 1846, the only child born to Dr. Edward and Emily (MOORE) CRONIN.
Dr. Edward CRONIN was born in Philadelphia, Penn., Feb. 22, 1822, and died in Platteville, Grant Co., Wis., in 1894. His elementary education was acquired in his native city, but he afterward attended, and in 1842 was graduated from, the Literary Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He then entered upon the study of medicine, under Prof. John K. MITCHELL, of Jefferson Medical College, from which institution he was graduated in 1844, and the same year he came to Wisconsin and settled down to practice in Platteville, Grant county. Here he secured a large list of patients, and was quite successful in his treatment of them, continuing in practice until 1850, when, like thousands of others throughout the country, he was attracted to the newly discovered gold fields of the Pacific slope. He reached Sacramento during the prevalence of the cholera scourge of that year, and his professional services were at once eagerly demanded. He remained in the city until the epidemic was conquered, and then sought the Fraser river region, tarrying there until 1853, when he returned to the States and located at Galena, Ill. There he resided until 1860, when, with a desire to better qualify himself in the more modern system of practice in his profession, he returned to Philadelphia and attended an additional course of lectures at Jefferson college. After practicing in Platteville, Wis., until 1864, he went to Philadelphia and practiced until 1867, when he again came West, and followed his profession at Mineral Point, Iowa Co., Wis., until 1872, when he settled in Platteville, there passing the remainder of his life. Dr. Edward CRONIN was a man of great energy and force of character, was an able and successful physician, and a truly public-spirited citizen, and his amiable wife, who survives him, still has her residence in Platteville. She is a daughter of Col. MOORE.
Dr. F. M. CRONIN, when young, owing to the frequent removals of his parents, received his literary education at various places, attending at Sinsinawa Mound, Platteville (at the academy under Prof. GUERNSEY), and the Northwest grammar school in Philadelphia, from which latter he was graduated. He began the study of medicine under his father, and was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1876. He commenced active practice at Platteville in conjunction with his father, and later went to Texas as surgeon for the Texas & Pacific Railway Co., with headquarters at Dallas, continuing as such three years. He returned to Wisconsin, locating at Mineral Point, whence he removed to Cassville, and in 1891 settled in Lancaster, where his professional ability and skill were at once recognized, and where he has since been favored with an extensive patronage.
The Doctor married Miss Abby JOHNSON, of Platteville, a daughter of Edwin JOHNSON, and this union has been blessed with two children, one of whom, Frank M., is deceased; the survivor is a daughter named Emily. The Doctor is a Knight Templar Mason, and is also a Knight of Pythias. Politically his sympathies are with the Democratic party, but he has never taken any very active part in political affairs. He is very highly esteemed as a physician, and as a citizen, and he and his wife moved in the best social circles of Lancaster.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck