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Dr David Benjamin Crediford

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Dr David Benjamin Crediford

Birth
Kennebunkport, York County, Maine, USA
Death
18 Jul 1915 (aged 51)
Burial
Rialto, San Bernardino County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section J, Block 50, Plot 00, SubPlot 01 N 1/2
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DR. D. B. CREDIFORD PASSES ON SUDDENLY
End Came With But Little Warning at His Home Sunday Evening.

Has Passed On
Rialto was startled last evening by the sudden passing away of Dr. D. B. Crediford. Mr. Crediford was at Christian Endeavor at the Christian church and gave a talk. He very soon left for home and was not feeling well. He was found by his wife on the back steps and seeing his condition phoned, to the city for doctors but all their skill could not save his life and at 7:45 he passed quietly away, heart failure being the cause. He was conscious and talked up to the last breath. Sadly stricken are the wife and son who remain to mourn his loss.
Dr. Credlford was 51 years old and a native of Shapley. Maine, coming from there to California 14 years ago, ten of them having been lived in Rialto. He was a prominent member of the Christian church, one of the elders and teacher of the young ladies Sunday school class.
Funeral services will he held Wednesday morning in the Christian church at 10 o'clock and interment will be in the Rialto cemetery.

San Bernardino Sun, Volume 42, Number 121, 20 July 1915 Page 6
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When David B. Crediford was born on May 19, 1864, in Kennebunkport, Maine, his father, Henry, was 40 and his mother, Ruth, was 33. He married his first wife Annie Eva Joyce on June 6, 1894, in Dover, New Hampshire. On June 6, 1894, he married his second wife Florence Hill in Dover, New Hampshire. He died on July 18, 1915, in Rialto, California, at the age of 51.

David Benjamin Crediford. b. 19 May
1864, Kennebunkport. Physician, Augusta." (General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine, 1794-1894, Brunswick, Maine, 1894)

He is found in the 1902 city directory of Los Angeles, Californa, living and working at 2557 West Pico. There is no mention of a wife, but that seems typical of all listings.

He is found in the 1910 census of Rialto, California, enumerated as "David B. Cridiford," age 45, born Maine to parents born Maine, a physician in private practice, with wife Florence H., age 44, born Maine to parents born
Maine, and son David R., age 6, born in California. He and Florence are said to have been married 15 years.

His wife and son are found with him in the 1910
census of Rialto; he is found on the list of registered voters in 1914, and his wife and son are found there in 1920 census.

David Benjamin Crediford in the Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929

Name: David Benjamin Crediford
Birth Date: 19 May 1864
Death Date: 18 Jul 1915
Death Place: Rialto, CA
Type Practice: Allopath
Licenses: NH, 1900, ME
Medical School: Bowdoin Medical School, Brunswick-Portland: Medical School of Maine, 1892, (G)
JAMA Citation: 65:1384
Cause of Death: angina pectoris; (M)
DR. D. B. CREDIFORD PASSES ON SUDDENLY
End Came With But Little Warning at His Home Sunday Evening.

Has Passed On
Rialto was startled last evening by the sudden passing away of Dr. D. B. Crediford. Mr. Crediford was at Christian Endeavor at the Christian church and gave a talk. He very soon left for home and was not feeling well. He was found by his wife on the back steps and seeing his condition phoned, to the city for doctors but all their skill could not save his life and at 7:45 he passed quietly away, heart failure being the cause. He was conscious and talked up to the last breath. Sadly stricken are the wife and son who remain to mourn his loss.
Dr. Credlford was 51 years old and a native of Shapley. Maine, coming from there to California 14 years ago, ten of them having been lived in Rialto. He was a prominent member of the Christian church, one of the elders and teacher of the young ladies Sunday school class.
Funeral services will he held Wednesday morning in the Christian church at 10 o'clock and interment will be in the Rialto cemetery.

San Bernardino Sun, Volume 42, Number 121, 20 July 1915 Page 6
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When David B. Crediford was born on May 19, 1864, in Kennebunkport, Maine, his father, Henry, was 40 and his mother, Ruth, was 33. He married his first wife Annie Eva Joyce on June 6, 1894, in Dover, New Hampshire. On June 6, 1894, he married his second wife Florence Hill in Dover, New Hampshire. He died on July 18, 1915, in Rialto, California, at the age of 51.

David Benjamin Crediford. b. 19 May
1864, Kennebunkport. Physician, Augusta." (General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine, 1794-1894, Brunswick, Maine, 1894)

He is found in the 1902 city directory of Los Angeles, Californa, living and working at 2557 West Pico. There is no mention of a wife, but that seems typical of all listings.

He is found in the 1910 census of Rialto, California, enumerated as "David B. Cridiford," age 45, born Maine to parents born Maine, a physician in private practice, with wife Florence H., age 44, born Maine to parents born
Maine, and son David R., age 6, born in California. He and Florence are said to have been married 15 years.

His wife and son are found with him in the 1910
census of Rialto; he is found on the list of registered voters in 1914, and his wife and son are found there in 1920 census.

David Benjamin Crediford in the Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929

Name: David Benjamin Crediford
Birth Date: 19 May 1864
Death Date: 18 Jul 1915
Death Place: Rialto, CA
Type Practice: Allopath
Licenses: NH, 1900, ME
Medical School: Bowdoin Medical School, Brunswick-Portland: Medical School of Maine, 1892, (G)
JAMA Citation: 65:1384
Cause of Death: angina pectoris; (M)


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