Crooks, John Conrad

Crooks, John Conrad a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South was born in Greenup County, Kentucky, about 1824. He was converted in early life; entered the local ministry in 1855; acquired a good educations devoted several years to schoolteaching; and in 1866 united with the Western Virginia Conference, wherein he labored with unsurpassed acceptability and success till his death, March 2, 1875. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1875, page 15.