In a message dated 5/9/2002 10:26:20 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > this James Crumley (the doctor) practied medicine in Harrison Co, > Ohio before he died. He went to school at University of Edinburgh, > While researching my husband's Ker line, I learned that it was common for young men of the landed gentry in the colonies-or the ones who could afford it-commonly sent their sons back to be educated in Edinburgh. It has/had several good schools and the Medical School was particularly well known. I have since had reason to learn of the School of Philosophy and Mathematics. I think since it had been an established University for such a long time had a lot to do with it. Anyway, I thought I would put my two cents in about this. Many of our early Physicians were educated there, including my husband's ancestor, Dr. David Corbin Ker of Fredricksburg, VA and later of New Orleans, LA where he died in 1841 after having served under Andrew Jackson as his Surgeon General in the War of 1812 and the Battle of New Orleans. I had folks from the mountains of VA and TN in my background and I am just as proud as I can be of them! Linda Hays Ker, a native Texan!