B. M. Crust
B. M. Crust, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., was from in the County of Lincolnshire, England, May 21st, 1814. He graduated as M. A. at Cambridge University, and in medicine at King’s College London. He entered the British Navy as Junior Surgeon and his ship did guard duty on the African slave coast, endeavoring to prevent the “Yankee skippers from stealing ningers.” He visited the East Indies, and China, and after his return he resigned his commission and migrated to the U.S. In 1838 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, and sent several papers on scientific subjects, connected with the geology, mineralogy, and climatology of this country, to that society. He made his home in Missouri, (where he married,) until 1854, when he removed to Kansas as the second actual squatter sovereign, in Leavenworth County. He was the second settler on the Black Bob tract in this county, and is at the present time the “oldest inhabitant” there. He is now, and always has been a Jackson democrat and delights to talk of the old heroes’ many virtues. Horticulture is with him a passion; he planted the first orchard in Leavenworth County, and has now a fine young orchard and vineyard in full bearing in this county.
Atlas Map of Johnson County, Kansas, E. F. Heisler and Co., 1874, p. 58.
