DR. WILLIAM J. CROZIER.   Among the rising young physicians of Randolph county, none by virtue of close application to business, and determination to become masters in their profession, deserve more honorable mention than he whose name heads this article.  His ancestors came from South Carolina to this county as early as 1806.  The Crozier family has always sustained a very respectable position in the community.  The parents of the subject of this sketch were Samuel P. and Caroline Crozier.  The mother's maiden name was Hill.  His father is a man of eminent social qualities.  William J. was educated in the Sparta Public Schools, where he enjoyed the skill of Supt. S. B. Hood as an instructor.  After completing the course of study, prescribed in the public schools, he devoted his time to the study of medicine under direction of Jerome Thompson in 1879. In the fall of the same year he entered the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, as a student, and graduated therefrom March 2d, 1881.  In August of the same year he opened an office in the town of Evansville, and since has devoted his time and attention most industriously to the practice.  Thoroughly in love with his calling, and alive to the importance of vigorous, unremitting effort, he is making rapid headway.  Habits of industry, such as he cultivates, bring their due reward.  He makes ophthalmology rather a specialty, taking great delight in its investigation and practice.  Politically the doctor is a Democrat.  Socially he is high-minded, generous and compassionate.
~ Source:  Combined History of Randolph, Monroe and Perry Counties, Illinois - Publ. 1883 - Page 419