Samuel Crumbine
(1862 - 1954)
- Moved in 1880s from Pennsylvania to Ford County to practice medicine
- State secretary of health for 20 years
- Launched public awareness campaigns for tuberculosis, elimination of houseflies and rats, and water and sanitary sewage control
- Abolished community drinking cup and credited with creating modern fly swatter
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