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MIDDLE LANCASTER.
The first practicing physician to locate at Middle Lancaster was a Dr. Brothers, who located there in 1853. He removed to
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Ohio some four years later, and was suc- ceeded by a Dr. White and a Dr. Acre. None of these remained more than five years, Dr. White removing to Harlens- burg, where he was practicing in the lat- ter part of the eighties.
DR. A. H. METZ was a native of Middle Lancaster and a graduate of Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He prac- ticed in the village from 1871 to 1875, when he left the county.
DR. GEORGE A. MCCANDLESS, a native of Center Township, Butler County, and a graduate of the Louisville Medical Col- lege, succeeded Dr. Metz at Middle Lan- caster.
WHITESTOWN.
In the Whitestown settlement the first doctor was Dr. Andrew Spear and his brother, Matthew W. Spear, both of whom practiced in Prospect later. After the death of Dr. Andrew Spear there was no settled physician in Whitestown until the arrival of Dr. Wilson N. Clarke, who set- tled there in 1867. Dr. Clarke was a na- tive of Meadville, Pa., and a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Cleve- land Medical College. Dr. Clarke was suc- ceeded in 1883 by Dr. Thomas Dunn Mc- Connell, who is now practicing in Pros- pect.
PROSPECT.
DR. MATTHEW W. SPEER, who studied medicine with Dr. Andrew Speer of Whitestown and Dr. DeWolfe of Butler, began practicing in Prospect about 1830 . and was the first resident physician of that place.
DR. B. H. B. BROWER, who was a member of the legislature from Butler County in 1849-50, settled in Prospect as a practicing physician in 1838. He was burgess of the borough, captain of the military company and an orator of no mean ability. He was a man of literary and scholarly tastes and was the editor and publisher of the Pros-
pect Record which was published for six months and then moved to New Brighton. Dr. Brower removed to Danville, Penna., where he resided until the time of his death. After leaving Prospect Dr. Brower established twelve newspapers in various parts of the state.
DR. JAMES P. ALCHORN, a native of In- diana County, practiced at Prospect for five or six years and removed to Ohio.
DR. WALTER BARBER practiced in Pros- pect in 1883. The resident physicians of the town in 1908 were DR. THOMAS D. Mc- CONNELL and DR. JAMES B. THOMPSON.
SAXONBURG.
DR. F. SCHMIDT was the pioneer physi- cian of Saxonburg. He arrived early in the thirties but left the settlement prior to 1840. His successor was DR. AUGUST KOCH, who practiced in the village for ten years or more and then removed to Mis- souri. The next physicians to locate in that community were DRS. SWEET and BLEIHOLDER. All of these physicians were Germans and were educated in their native country before coming to America. Their successors in the seventies were DR. J. H. KING, who located in Saxonburg in 1872, DR. E. N. B. MERSHON in 1877, and DR. H. L. MERSHON in 1880.
DR. W. W. LASHER, the present physi- cian of Saxonburg, located there in 1893. CONNOQUENESSING BOROUGH.
DR. GEORGE WELSH was the first settled physician in Connoquenessing. He came in 1853, remained a few years, and then went to Saxonburg, where he practiced for three or four years. He returned to Con- noquenessing where he died in 1852. His successors at Connoquenessing were DR. N. M. RICHARDSON and DR. COVERT, who each practiced for a short time. DR. POR- TER succeeded to the practice of Dr. Welsh but only remained for a few years when he removed to Prospect.
. The next physician to practice in Con- noquenessing was Dr. C. A. McCaskey
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who was succeeded in 1877 by Dr. J. L. Christy, who is the present physician of the town. Dr. Christy was born in Con- cord Township, Butler County, and re- ceived his education at the old Wither- spoon Institute in Butler and at the Pine Grove Academy, now Grove City College. He graduated from the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati in the spring of 1877 and began practicing the same year.
PROSPECT.
DR. N. M. RICHARDSON began his profes- sional career in Prospect in 1859. He was born in Connoquenessing Township, But- ler County, in 1830, and studied medicine with DR. O. D. PALMER of Zelienople. He graduated from the Jefferson Medical Col- lege in 1853. For fifty years he was one of the most successful physicians in the western part of the county.
DR. DAVID FOWLER practiced in what is now Washington Township and at Mar- tinsburg in 1845. He removed to Engle- wood, Ill.
SLIPPERY ROCK.
DR. LYMAN L. HOWARD, a native of Ithaca, N. Y., located at Slippery Rock about 1835, but a year later removed to Harrisville, where he practiced until 1854 when he removed to Indiana. Dr. How- ard's contemporaries at Harrisville were DR. JAMES OWENS, who left the settlement for the western country the latter part of the fifties, and DR. JAMES MCCONNELL, who moved west in 1856.
DR. SAMUEL MARKS, who died at Slip- pery Rock about 1855, located in that place in 1847. Dr. MeMillian practiced in the same place in 1874.
DR. G. W. COULTER, a native of New Lis- bon, Ohio, located in Slippery Rock in 1862, where after eleven years of success- ful practice, he died in 1873. He was sec- retary of the County Medical Society at the time of his death.
DR. ELI G. DE WOLFE moved from Ohio to Slippery Rock in 1825. He married Miss Sarah A. Harris of this county, and for over twenty-two years was one of the most progressive men of the village. His death occurred in 1847.
DR. BENJAMIN PEARSON, a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, began to practice in Slippery Rock in 1862. where he remained until 1866, in which year he removed to Tionesta, Penna. In 1868 he returned to Slippery Rock, where he has been engaged in continuous prac- tice for the past thirty-eight years.
DR. A. M. PATTERSON was the successor of Dr. Coulter and began to practice in Slippery Rock in 1873. He was educated in Butler and Sunbury Academies and graduated from the medical department of the University of Wooster at Cleveland in the year in which he began to practice.
Other physicians who practiced in the village at an early date were: Dr. Dodds, Dr. Gamel, Dr. Gettis, Dr. James B. Liv- ingstone. They covered periods from 1850 to 1872. A Dr. Smith was in practice with Dr. Coulter for a short time and also with Dr. Livingstone.
UNIONVILLE.
DR. JOSIAH MCCANDLESS was engaged in the practice of medicine in Center Town- ship from 1839 to 1875. He was the son of William and Nancy (Fish) MeCandless and was born in Center Township, Butler County, March 6, 1816. He pursued a course of studies for three years under Dr. J. Whittaker of Allegheny City, after he began to practice in his native township and some ten years later moved to Union- ville, where he remained until his death January 5, 1875. His son, Dr. William C. McCandless practiced at Glade Mills, But- ler County from 1881 to 1895, when he removed to Butler and is now one of the leading physicians of the county seat.
C. H. BARNHART'S HOUSE AND SHOP, BUTLER
ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, SUGAR CREEK, DON- EGAL TOWNSHIP
CONCORDIA HOME, MARWOOD
STORE OF CHARLES R. BORLAND, HARRISVILLE
BEAM HOTEL, ZELIENOPLE
BUTLER GENERAL HOSPITAL, BUTLER
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DR. MARY E. HARPER. The first woman physician to register in Butler County was Mrs. Mary E. Harper, who located in Bald Ridge, now Renfrew, in 1883.
DR. ELIZA GROSSMAN was the next. She registered in 1890 and was associated with her husband, Dr. R. J. Grossman, in But- ler, until her death.
DR. LOUISA M. SHRYOCK, a native of But- ler County, graduated from the University of Wooster, Ohio, and the West Penn Medical College of Pittsburg, in 1893. She first practiced at North Hope, Butler County, and later moved to Butler where she continued to practice until her death.
DR. JASMINE MCALPIN was born in Well- and, Ontario, and is the daughter of the late Dr. Volney McAlpin, deceased, of Butler, who was a prominent dentist. She graduated from the Woman's Medical Col- lege of Baltimore, Md., and began to prac- tice in Butler in 1896.
DR. MARY LOUISE JONES is a native of Pittsburg and a graduate of the class of 1903 of the Woman's Medical College of Baltimore, Md. Dr. Jones was associated with Dr. McAlpin for three years, and moved to Pittsburg in 1907.
DR. ELLA AVERILL HACKETT PATTERSON iS a native of Washington, D. C. She is a graduate of the Philadelphia Normal and the Women's Medical College, of Philadel- phia, in the class of 1901. She registered in Butler County in 1903 and is associated with her husband, Dr. Walter Scott Pat- terson of Butler, in an extensive practice.
DR. NANNIE BELL DRAKE, a native of Lawrence County, registered in Butler County in 1907 and is practicing at Por- tersville. She is a graduate of the Ohio Medical University.
The school of Homeopathy does not have a large representation in the county, al- though physicians of that school of medi- cine have been practicing here for many years.
DR. P. S. DUFF appears to have been the first doctor of the new school who
practiced in Butler County. He located in Jefferson Township in 1863 and was practicing at Great Belt as late as 1890. He was a man of education, a successful physician and a useful citizen.
DR. E. N. LEAKE, son of Rev. D. N. Leake, a prominent Methodist Episcopal minister, located in Butler in 1881. He was born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1855, and graduated from the New York Homeo- pathic College in 1880. He was successful as a physician and surgeon and had a large practice. He went to Nebraska in 1897, where he is still practicing.
DR. W. R. TITZEL located in Butler in 1888 but only practiced for two or three years.
DR. JESSE E. MANN, a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago, came to Butler in 1890 and was associated with Dr. Leake until 1897, when he went to the West.
DR. WILLIAM H. BROWN was born in Penn Township, Butler County, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam K. Brown. He graduated from the Hahnemann Med- ical College, of Chicago, in 1893 and located in Butler in 1894. He continued his practice in Butler until May, 1904, when he was compelled to relinquish his work on account of failing health. Dr. Brown was one of the medical fraternity who did noble work in Butler during the winter of 1903 and 1904, made memorable by the typhoid fever epidemic. The ex- posure of the winter brought on a fatal disease that caused his death in June, 1905.
DR. EDWARD H. HARRIS is a native of Bellefonte, Penna., and a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College, of Philadel- phia, in the class of 1900. After a year's work in St. Luke's Hospital, Philadelphia, he located in Butler and has built up an excellent practice.
DR. OLIN A. WILLIAMS is a native of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical Col- lege, of Chicago, Ill., in the class of 1890.
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He practiced in Union City Penna., until December 21, 1897, when he removed from Butler and succeeded to the practice of Drs. Leake and Mann. Dr. Williams has a large practice and is one of the most suc- cessful physicians in western Pennsyl- vania.
DR. JOHN C. Surrox was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John HI. Sutton. He graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College in Phila- delphia in 1903 and practiced in Butler for a short time. He is now in New Brighton, Penna.
Like all teachers of a new philosophy, the pioneer osteopaths of the county were much scoffed at. With the exception of one or two itinerant practitioners, who re- mained but a short time, there were no recognized osteopaths in the county until 1901, and the first to enter the field was Dr. Smith, the first teacher at the Kirks- ville school. There are now four recog- nized osteopaths in the borough of Butler and the community has turned out a num- ber of students who are successful practi- tioners in other localities.
DR. WILLIAM SMITH. The pioneer prac- titioner of Osteopathy in Butler County was Dr. William Smith, a graduate of a regular school of medicine in Scotland. He came to America to take up the prac- tice of medicine, but instead became inter- ested in Osteopathy, and became the first teacher of Anatomy, Physiology and Sur- gery in the first school of Osteopathy in Kirksville, Missouri. He subsequently lec- tured at the American School of Osteop- athy, and at the Atlantic School of Osteopathy at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, until the early part of 1901, when he came to Butler and opened an office for general practice. He only remained in Butler a few months, when he gave up his work here for the lecture room and is now a member of the faculty of the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri. Dr.
Smith was the first recognized osteopath to practice in the county.
IS. H. MERKLEY, D. O., was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and graduated from the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Mo., in 1900. He came to But- ler in 1901 after Dr. Smith left and was the real pioneer osteopath of Butler. Pioneer work was no obstacle to him, how- ever, for he soon needed an assistant, who came in the person of his brother, Dr. W. A. Merkley. In June, 1902, Dr. E. H. Merkley sold his practice to Dr. Julia E. Foster and removed to Pittsburg. Penna.
W. A. Merkley, D. O., was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and graduated from the American School of Osteopathy, at Kirksville, Mo., in 1901. He came to Butler as assistant to his brother, Dr. E. H. Merkley, in 1901, and in the follow- ing year went to New York city, where he is now practicing.
DR. R. B. POWEL and Dr. Anna H. Powel graduated from the American School of Osteopathy in 1900 and first located in Colorado. They came to Butler in 1902 and practiced here until September of that year, when they returned to Colorado. They are now located in Denver.
DR. JULIA E. FOSTER was born at Royal- ton, Vermont, and graduated from the Atlantic School of Osteopathy, in 1902. She came to Butler the same year to suc- ceed to the practice of the Drs. Merkley. She now has a suite of offices in the Stein building and has a large clientele. In 1903 she was assisted by Dr. C. M. Lowe, and since 1906 her assistant has been her son, Dr. J. C. Foster.
DR. CLARA E. MORROW was born at Branchton, Butler County, and is the daughter of George Morrow of Slippery Rock Township. After completing the course of study in the common schools of the county she attended Slippery Rock State Normal School at Slippery Rock, Penna., and subsequently taught in the
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common schools of the county. She went to Providence, Rhode Island, in 1897, and entered a training school for nurses, and after completing the course she entered the Boston School of Osteopathy, graduat- ing in 1902. She came to Butler in Sep- tember of the same year and succeeded to the practice of the Drs. Powel. She is now located in the Boyd Building and has an extensive practice in the town and county.
DR. E. E. HARDEN was born in Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1875, and after completing his education entered a business career at Conneaut, Ohio. He gave up a paying business to enter the American School of Osteopathy, where he graduated in June, 1904. He first located in Columbia City, Indiana, where he practiced until April, 1905, when he removed to Butler and located in a suite of rooms in the Younkins Building on South Main street, where he still has an office. While a resident of Conneaut Dr. Hardin married Miss Lida Sharpe, of that place, on August 23, 1897.
DR. GRACY F. PURVIS was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, September 6, 1882, and is the son of Samuel L. Purvis, of West Pearl street. He was educated in the Common and High schools of Butler and at the Staunton, Virginia, Military school, and graduated from the Atlantic School of Osteopathy (a branch of the American School) in February, 1906. He located in Butler the same year and continued to practice until July, 1907, when he removed to Buffalo, New York, where he is en- gaged in his chosen work. Dr. Purvis was married July 26, 1907, to Miss Florence Leidecker, of Butler.
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DR. J. C. FOSTER was born at Royalton, Vermont, February 3, 1884, and came to Butler with his parents in 1902. He grad- uated from the Butler high school in the class of 1904 and went directly to the American School of Osteopathy at Kirks- ville, Missouri, where he graduated in the class of 1906. After completing his studies
he returned to Butler and took up active practice in the office with his mother, Dr. J. E. Foster, in the Stein Block, on South Main Street. He lives at the family home on North Main Street.
DR. RAYMOND W. BAILEY was born in Chicora, Butler County, in July, 1882, and is the son of Charles A. Bailey. His boy- hood days were spent in Butler, where he attended the common and high schools, graduating from the latter in the class of 1902. He graduated from the Atlantic School of Osteopathy in 1904 and the same year located in Butler, where he practiced for six months. He then removed to Phila- delphia, where he is now practicing.
REGISTERED PHYSICIANS.
The physicians registered in the protho- notary's office of Butler, as required by the law of June 8, 1881, together with the location at the time of the registration and the date of beginning practice, are as follows :
George G. Aitken, Great Belt, 1871.
S. D. Bell, Chicora, 1874.
H. C. Birchard, Fairview, 1855.
Stephen Bredin, Butler, 1861.
Floyd V. Brooks, Evans City, 1877.
John E. Byers, Butler, 1878.
C. L. Campbell, Brownsdale, 1876.
C. M. C. Campbell, Bruin, 1881.
George H. Chandler, Karns City, 1865.
J. L. Christy, Petersville, 1877.
William R. Cowden, Portersville, 1846.
W. N. Clarke, Whitestown, 1867.
Elder Crawford, Mars, 1878.
B. L. Davis, Petrolia, 1863. A. V. Cunningham, Zelienople, 1863.
John Deitrick, Petrolia, 1870.
B. E. Dennison, Bruin, 1860.
W. L. DeWolfe, Coalville, now Chicora, 1879.
P. S. Duff, Great Belt, 1863. (H)
Andrew J. Edmunds, Martinsburg, 1873.
Joseph Eggert, Parker Township, 1848.
George L. Eggert, Parker Township, 1881.
J. H. Elrick, Harrisville, 1856. Robert Everett, Prospect, 1879.
William C. Foster, Petrolia, 1876.
Samuel Graham, Butler, 1862. David Harper, Karns City, 1870.
B. A. Henlon, North Washington, 1875.
Harvey D. Hockenberry, West Sunbury, 1879.
James A. Holman, Unionville, 1879.
Albert Holman, Unionville, 1881.
N. N. Hoover, North Washington, now in Butler, 1865. William Irvine, Evans City, 1853.
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Albert A. Kelly, West Liberty, 1872. Clinton S. Kerr, Byron Center, 1876. Theodore Kersting, Evans City, 1867. John H. King, Saxonburg, 1872. E. N. Leake, Butler, 1880. (H) 11. C. Lynn, Butler, 1833. Joshua M. List, Evans City, 1875. Amos Lusk, Harmony, 1849. Joseph F. Lusk, Harmony, 1850. C. F. McBride, Fairview. 1877. George A. MeCandless, Middle Lancaster, IST7.
W. C. MeCandless, Glade Mills, 1880.
C. A. MeCaskey. Chicora, 1874. Samuel E. MeClymonds, Portersville, 1877.
W. B. Marquis, Glade Mills, 1881.
Samuel H. Matheson, Slippery Rock, 1854.
E. B. Mershon, Saxonburg, 1877.
Homer L. Mershon, Saxonburg, 1878.
A. N. Neyman, Butler, 1851. Asa M. Patterson, Slippery Rock, 1873. R. L. Patterson, Chicora, 1872. Benjamin Pearson, Slippery Rock, 1862.
Raymond H. Pillow, Whitestown, now in Butler, 1876.
O. P. Pisor, Harrisville, 1881. Thomas B. Rhodes, Farmington, 1875.
C. C. Rumberger, Petrolia, 1872. J. M. Scott, Cabot, 1871. S. O. Sterritt, Valencia, 1880.
S. L. Strain, Harrisville, 1858.
D. J. Washbaugh, Anandale, now in Grove City, 1876. David W. Webster, Harrisville, -
Adam Weiser, Zelienople, 1848.
H. R. Wilson, Portersville, 1873.
W. R. Wilson, Portersville, 1881.
Frank Winters, Zelienople, 1878.
George M. Zimmerman, Butler, 1870.
Those registered in 1882 are: James M. Blaine, Sarversville.
Oroville A. Rhodes, West Sunbury.
B. L. Davis, Petrolia. T. W. Hopkins, Millerstown.
David J. Jones, Forestville.
H. S. George, Cabot. James E. Montgomery, Clinton Township.
Those registered in 1883 are:
Thomas Dunn McConnell, Whitestown, now in Prospect. Walter Barber, Prospect. N. M Richardson, Prospect. Thomas Hayes Donley, Mars.
Mrs. Mary E. Harper, Renfrew.
Those registered in 1884 are:
Joseph C. Irvine, Forward Township. Samuel M. Bippus, Butler. J. B. Showalter, Chicora, now in Pittsburg. A. J. Pyle, Zelienople.
Those registered in 1885 are: Harry Navigo, Karns City. G. W. Sloan, Butler. J. C. Barr, Mars. Redick Coulter MeCurdy, Butler.
Those registered in 1886 are:
Daniel W. Fiedler, Harmony.
Edward P. Logan, Saxonburg. George W. Beane, Butler.
Those registered in 1887 are:
John F. Moore, Butler.
Andrew Edmunds, Bruin.
William Linnenbrink. Zelienople.
D. Elmer Wiles, Butler.
Charles T. W. Seidel, Harrisville.
Those registered in 1888 are:
M. B. Cullinan, Petrolia.
W. R. Titzel, Butler. (H)
Walker W. McConnel, Harrisville.
George M. Silvers, Evans City.
John Charles Hoye, Jacksville.
Those registered in 1889 are: John Calvin Cort, Renfrew.
W. J. Kelly, Parker Township.
M. E. Headland, Zelienople, now in Butler.
W. H. McCafferty, Sarver Station.
Robert W. Waterson, Zelienople.
Samuel E. Ralston, Harmony.
Joseph L. Campbell, Chicora, now in Renfrew.
Those registered in 1890 are:
Charles L. Tilton, Evans City.
William H. Wallace, Butler.
George D. Thomas, Chicora.
Jesse E. Mann, Butler. (H)
J. L. Axtell, Chicora.
Lysander Black, Butler.
V. F. Thomas, Fairview, now in Evans City. Mrs. Eliza E. Grossman, Butler.
George J. Peters, Butler.
Arthur Foster, Saxonburg, now in Pittsburg.
Levi M. Reinsel, Butler.
Those registered in 1891 are:
Harry M. Wilson, Evans City.
Joseph Forrester, Butler, now in Chicago.
Joseph W. Miller, Butler.
Albert G. Price, Evans City.
Horace S. MeClymonds, Brownsdale.
George G. Shoemaker, Butler.
Edwin C. Thompson, West Liberty.
Those registered in 1892 are:
William J. Grossman, Coaltown.
James B. Thompson, Prospect.
Charles J. Stein, Zelienople.
Edwin J. Fithian, Portersville.
Thomas H. Newcome, Karns City.
George K. McAdoo, Anandale.
M. C. Smith, Zelienople. J. C. Wilson, Evans City.
Those registered in 1893 are: William R. Cowden, Middle Lancaster, now in Butler. Walter N. Humphrey, Portersville. James A. Wallace, Petrolia, now in East Brady.
R. Lee Brush, Slippery Rock.
W. W. Lasher, Saxonburg.
Charles E. Beck, Middle Lancaster.
George L. Fife, Saxonburg. William Plummer McIlroy, Butler.
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John Franklin Turner, Hooker, now in Dakota. Physicians registered in Butler County in 1894: Simeon N. Andre, Petrolia. Benjamin Harris Brewster, Euclid. MeCurdy Bricker, Butler. William H. Brown, Butler. (H)
Those registered in Butler County in 1895: John Wesley Flick Moore, Butler. Adam Clark Davis, Buffalo Township. Louisa May Shyrock, Butler, North Hope. Joseph James Schultis, Butler. Lawrence H. Stepp, Glade Mills. Joseph Clarence Caldwell, Emlenton, now in Butler. William Griffith Pennyhiel, Slippery Rock. Thomas Kerr McKee, Chicora. H. G. Deane, Butler. (H) Charles R. B. Hunt, Butler. L. A. Barber, Mars. George B. McClelland Reese, Glade Mills.
Those registered in Butler County in 1896: Charles S. Shoaff, Jacksonville. Jasmine McAlpine, Butler. James Clyde Boyle, Butler. William Plummer MeIlroy, Allegheny City. Leon Vance Grove, Annandale.
Robert Henderson Warnock, Portersville.
A. A. Bancroft, Butler. Robert J. Greer, Eau Claire. Jesse L. Black, Sarversville.
Those registered in Butler County in 1897:
Harry A. Bell, Butler. W. F. Hall, Butler. Everett Miner Baker, Brownsdale. A. L. Howe, Petrolia. Willard B. Campbell, Harrisville. William Rush Hockenberry, Slippery Rock. Charles Stewart McClelland, Glade Mills. William Beame Clarke, North Hope, now in Butler. Frank Hamilton Crawford, Glade Mills. George W. Kennedy, Portersville. Olin A. Williams, Butler. (H) Those registered in Butler County in 1898: R. J. McMichael, West Sunbury. James Ambrose Osman, Harmony. J. C. Atwell, Butler. Walker W. McConnell, Harrisville. Elgie L. Wasson, Callery Junction, now in Butler. Harry E. Gray, Zelienople. Boyd B. Snodgrass, Butler. Edward A. Russell, Butler. Robert J. Greer, Eau Claire. Those registered in Butler County in 1899:
John Victor Cowden, Middle Lancaster, now in Butler. John L. Halstead, Clinton Township. Robert J. Grossman, Cherry Township, now in Butler. Those registered in Butler County in 1900: Robert Todd Post, Slippery Rock. Charles S. McGeorge, Mars. George Thomas McNish, West Winfield. Those registered in Butler County in 1901: Samuel A. Kamerer, Butler.
Harry S. Lake, Portersville.
Those registered in Butler County in 1902:
Nicholas Dombart, Evans City.
Herman H. Dight, Middle Lancaster. Edward H. Harris, Butler. Leslie R. Hazlett, Butler. Harry R. Wilson, Callery. Charles L. DeWolfe, Chicora.
Alfred E. Ewing, Lyndora. Walter S. Patterson, Butler.
Those registered in Butler County in 1903:
Robert B. Elrick, Petrolia. Mary Louise Jones, Butler.
Frank Hugh Smith, Kaylor. Roy L. Stackpole, Butler.
Ella Averill Hackett Patterson, Butler.
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