Dr. Joseph Creamer Dead. Former Coroner of Kings County Passes Away After a Brief Illness. Sketch of His Career. Dr. Creamer Was Well Known in Brooklyn and a Member of a Prominent Family of Physicians. Dr. Joseph M. Creamer, former Coroner of Kings County, died at his home, 122 Tompkins avenue, at 4 o'clock this morning, of pneumonia. Dr. Creamer had only been ill a short time and the attack which carried him away was sudden. On Friday last he was out driving and attended patients. He caught a chill on that day but fought it off during Saturday. On Sunday he was compelled to take to his bed and pneumonia developed. A number of Dr. Creamer's relatives were at his bedside at the time of his death, although the event was entirely unexpected. Dr. Creamer is survived by Mrs. Creamer and three children, namely, Joseph M., who is a practicing physician; Frank and Carrie; also three brothers, Frank D., Charles and Theodore. The funeral will probably take place Monday morning, although the arrangements have not been definitely completed. It is likely that there will be a celebration of the mass in St. Vincent de Paul's Church on North Sixth street, of which church the deceased was a member. The burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Dr. Joseph M. Creamer was the son of the late Dr. Joseph Creamer, who came from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and settled in the Eastern District of Brooklyn in 1850. Dr. Joseph M. Creamer became noted both as a physician and a surgeon and was the first police surgeon appointed in the city. For a number of years he served as autopsy surgeon to the Eastern District Coroner and for many other years he was county physician. When Dr. Creamer was elected Coroner of the Eastern District, in 1892. he had one of the largest private practices in Brooklyn. Dr. Creamer's maternal grandfather, Alexander Tuttle, was the first tax gatherer in the village of Williamsburgh. Alexander Tuttle's mother was a Miss Burr and first cousin to Aaron Burr. Creamer was born in South Second street in 1852. He received his early education at the Niagara Falls Seminary, but graduated from the Medical Department of the University of New York in 1872. He was not then of age and his diploma was withheld until the following year, when he began the practice of his profession. He always lived in the Eastern District. In politics he was a Democrat. Dr. Creamer was succeeded as Coroner by George H. Nason, now under Indictment. (Source: Brooklyn Eagle on February 23, 1900)

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