Biography

08/17/1839 - 05/18/1925

KROESEN, Dr. William B., a Representative from Allegheny County; born, August 17, 1839 in Allegheny City, Allegheny County, Pa. M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cincinnati, 1865; private, Company F, 13th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); second lieutenant, Company K, 103rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1862, Civil War); physician (1865-1913); medical director, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Pennsylvania (1867); elected, council, Etna; elected, burgess, Etna; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1890; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); died, May 18, 1925 in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.