Century history of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania and representative citizens, 20th, Part 21

Author: Hazen, Aaron L. (Aaron Lyle), 1837- comp. and ed. cn
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: Chicago, Richmond-Arnold publishing co.
Number of Pages: 1058

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HENRY REED WILSON, M. D., of New Cas- tle, was born in New Wilmington, Pa., March 4, 1852, and received an educational training in the public schools and at West- minster College. He read medicine under Dr. M. P. Barker, of New Castle, and in 1873 received his degree from Miami Med- ical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He lo- cated at Porterville, Butler County, where he resided for a period of twenty-eight years, but was not in practice during the last year and a half of that time. In 1901 he began practice in New Castle, and spe- cializes on diseases of the stomach. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association.

ROBERT G. MILES, M. D., has been en- gaged in practice in New Castle since 1895, in which year he was graduated from Jef- ferson Medical College. He came from Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. He is a

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member of the Lawrence County Medical Society and the New Castle Physicians' Club.

SAMUEL R. W. MCCUNE, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Wilkinsburg, Pa., July 8, 1875, and there received a preliminary education in the public schools. He then attended Geneva College at Beaver Falls, after which he read medicine under Dr. Jo- seph Z. Dickson, a leading surgeon of Pittsburg, continuing with him for eight years. He attended the medical depart. ment of the Western University of Penn- sylvania two years and a like period in Jefferson Medical College, graduating from that institution in 1906. During va- cations he spent much time in Pasavant Hospital in Pittsburg. He began practice in New Castle in November, 1906, and has made a specialty of surgery. He is a mem- ber of the Lawrence County Medical So- ciety and the State Medical Society.

M. LUTHER Ross, Ph. B., M. D., was born in Newburg, N. Y., February 7, 1869; was graduated from Bucknell University in 1899, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. He was interne in St. Francis Hospital at Jersey City for six months, then located in practice at Kaylor, Armstrong County, Pa. In August, 1907, he moved to New Castle, where he has since been in prac- tice. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society.

SAMUEL JOHN BRITTON, M. D., special- ist on skin diseases, has been a resident of New Castle since 1896. He was born in Darlington, Beaver County, Pa., Novem- ber 19, 1850; was educated in Darlington Academy, and after leaving that institu- tion read medicine with Dr. W. H. Grim, of Beaver Falls, three years. He was graduated in 1875 from the medical de- partment of Western Reserve at Cleve- land. He engaged in practice at Moravia, Pa., for twenty years, then in 1896 moved to New Castle.

R. G. BOAK, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Slippery Rock Township, Law- rence County, Pennsylvania, March 16,

1865, and received his educational training in the public schools and Edinboro State Normal School. After graduating from that institution he engaged in teaching for seven years. He read medicine under Dr. Charles Hunt, of Princeton, and attended Baltimore Medical College one year, and the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania two years, graduating from the last named in 1896. The follow- ing year he pursued a post-graduate course in gynecology and surgery at the Philadelphia Polyclinic. He practiced his profession at Eastbrook until 1900, then removed to New Castle. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, and the Amer- ican Medical Association.

ALBERT MERRITT COOK, M. D., was born in Jamestown, N. Y., September 15, 1854. After finishing his high school course he attended Cornell University at Ithaca, N. Y. He taught school for a time and during 1876 and 1877 engaged in the drug business at Jamestown. He read medicine under Dr. William Whitney, of that place, and also under Dr. Whippo, of New Castle. He graduated from the University of Buf- falo in 1880, and from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1883. He engaged in practice in New Castle immediately there- after, and has since continued there in general practice. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society and of the State Medical Society.

ALLAN W. URMSON, M. D., of New Cas- tle, was born in Sharon, Pa., January 16, 1871, and was in infancy when his parents moved to New Castle. He attended the public schools and Washington and Jeffer- son College, after which he read medicine under Dr. E. A. Donnan. He was gradu- ated from Jefferson Medical College in 1897, then for one year was resident physi- cian of the Shenango Valley Hospital. He then turned his attention to general prac- tice, at which he has since continued. He is local surgeon for the Carnegie Steel Works. He is a member of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Surgeons' Society, the

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Erie Railroad Surgeons' Society, the Army and Navy Surgeons' Society, and of the American Medical Association.

D. P. JACKSON, M. D., an eye and ear spe- cialist, who moved from New Castle to New Jersey in 1892, was born in Lawrence County in 1852. He practiced in this city continuously from his graduation from medical college in 1874 until his departure.

JOSEPH I. McKEE, M. D., a native of Lawrence County, was graduated from Miami Medical College in 1876, and twice within a few years located in New Castle and engaged in practice, then moved to Penn, Westmoreland County, Pa.

S, E. McCREARY, M. D., who graduated from Miami Medical College in 1880, en- gaged in practice in New Castle for seven years, then went West.

JOHN D. WOOD, M. D., the oldest prac- ticing physician in New Castle, was born in Franklin, Pa., and received an educa- tional training in the public schools and in Allegheny College. He read medicine for two years under Dr. John W. Wallace, of New Castle, and attended Cleveland Medi- cal College and the University of Penn- sylvania. He has engaged in continuous practice in New Castle since 1868. He was one of the founders of the Lawrence County Medical Society, of which he served as secretary off and on for about sixteen years. He also was president of that body one year.

WILLIAM GREY MILLER, M. D., specialist on the eye, ear, nose and throat at New Castle, was born in this city December 25, 1873. After completing the prescribed course in the high school, he read medicine under Dr. E. A. Donnan, and attended the medical department of Western University of Pennsylvania, from which he was grad- uated in 1898. He was then resident phy- sician at the Shenango Valley Hospital one year, and took a post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins University in 1899. He also completed a post-graduate course in Lon- don Royal Ophthalmic Hospital and at Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, receiv- ing a certificate from each institution. He

spent a year at study in these schools in London, and four months in the University of Vienna, where he pursued a course on the ear, followed by three months in the Wiedener Ear Hospital in Vienna. Dr. Miller was assistant surgeon of the Four- teenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War, and after six months of service was mustered out with the rank of major sur- geon. In 1899, he went into the United States Army as captain assistant surgeon and served six years in the Philippines, leaving the army with the rank of captain. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Medical Soci- ety, the American Medical Association, and the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. He opened an office for practice in New Castle, April 1, 1908.

JOHN FOSTER, M. D., of New Castle, was born at Rossville, Pa., December 13, 1872; attended the public schools of Venango County, New Castle High School, and the medical department of the Western Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1894. He has practiced in New Castle throughout his professional career. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Physicians' Club of New Castle. He is on the surgical staff of Shenango Valley Hospital.

HARRY W. McKEE, A. M., M. D., of New Castle, was born May 16, 1862; attended the public schools, Washington and Jeffer- son College, and Jefferson Medical Col- lege, graduating from the last named in- stitution in 1887. He pursued a post-grad- uate course in New York Polyclinic in 1895. and in the Post-Graduate College of New York City, in 1898. He first prac- ticed in Glenshaw, Allegheny County, where he continued until 1898, then lo- cated in New Castle. He is on the staff of surgeons of the Shenango Valley Hospital. He belongs to the Lawrence County Medi- cal Society.

LENORA HAMILTON GAGEBY, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Johnstown, Pa .; at-

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tended New Castle High School and then the Women's Medical College of Pennsyl- vania, at Philadelphia, graduating there- from in 1901. She pursued a post-grad- uate course in the New England Hospital at Boston, then opened an office for prac- tice in New Castle, making a specialty of diseases of women and children. She is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society and the American Medical Asso- ciation.

E. HUNTER PERRY, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Townville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1878; attended the public schools, LeBouf Academy, at Waterford, Pa., and Allegheny College. He read medicine under Dr. T. C. Whitney, of Frewsburg, N. Y., and was graduated from the Medico-Chirurgical College of Phila- delphia, in 1902. He practiced one year at Mckean, Pa., four years at Salisbury, Somerset County, and, in December, 1906, began practice in New Castle, where he has since continued. He is a member of the Physicians' Club of New Castle, the Law- rence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

LEWIS O. PHILLIPS, M. D., has been en- gaged in practice in New Castle since 1891. He was born at Edinburg, Lawrence Coun- ty, in 1862; attended the public schools and Butler University at Irvington, Ind. He read medicine under Dr. M. Linville, of New Castle, and attended the Jefferson Medical College, from which he was grad- uated with the class of 1885. He located in New Castle in 1891, and has since been in practice here.

DAVID R. HARRIS, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Dowlais, South Wales, in 1854, and was eight years old when brought by his parents to America. He was educated in the public schools of Pittsburg and Western University of Pennsylvania. He began his preparation for the profession under Dr. J. H. Buffum, of Pittsburg, and continued his studies in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated March 11, 1878.

He came to New Castle in July of that year, and has practiced here since. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Homeopathic Medical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy.

WILLIAM H. LEE, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Addison, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1862, and is a son of Dr. Charles H. Lee, of New Castle; after completing a preliminary educational training in the public schools and Taren- tum Academy, he read medicine under his father and attended Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, from which he grad- uated in 1886. He practiced in New Castle several years, then pursued a post-grad- uate course on the eye, ear, nose and throat in the Hospital Ophthalmic College, of New York, graduating therefrom in 1891. In 1894 he completed a course on the eye, ear, nose and throat in the New York Post-Graduate College. In his practice he specializes on these branches.

CHARLES H. LEE, M. D., who has been in practice in New Castle since 1880, was born in Allegheny City, Pa., May 31, 1840; was educated in the public schools and in a private school in his natal city ; then read medicine under Dr. John Cooper, of Al- legheny. He was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College in 1864, then for one year was resident physician of the Pittsburg Homeopathic Hospital. He went from there to Tarentum, where he re- mained ten years, being out of practice one year; then spent one year in Butler prior to coming to New Castle. He com- pleted a post-graduate course on diseases of the chest, nose and throat in the New York Post-Graduate College.

JOHN D. TUCKER, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1873, and was young when brought by his parents to New Castle. He was educated in the high school, and took his medical course in Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated in 1900. He was for a time house physician of the Shenango Valley Hospital. He is a mem-

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ber of the Lawrence County Medical So- ciety, the State Medical Society, the Amer- ican Medical Association and the Physi- cians' Club of New Castle.

ANNA M. JACK, M. E., M. D., has been in the practice of her profession in New Castle since 1899. She was born in Alex- andria, Westmoreland County, Pa., and re- ceived an educational training in the public schools, and in the Indiana State Normal School, from which she was graduated in 1890 with the degree of M. E. She engaged in teaching two years, then entered the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, graduating in 1897. She did post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins University. She practiced one year in Wilkinsburg, then in 1899 located in New Castle. She is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society and the State Med- ical Society.

C. FENWICK MCDOWELL, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Shenango County, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1874; was edu- cated in the public schools and Grove City College. After teaching in the schools for two or three years he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1899. He served one year as resident physician at Shenango Valley Hospital, and has since been in practice at New Castle. He is a member of the Physicians' Club, the Law- rence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

DON C. LINDLEY, M. D., eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, of New Castle, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1876; he was graduated in the grade and high schools, and the California State Normal School. He read medicine under Dr. E. H. Cary, of Prosperity, Pa., and was graduated from Jefferson Medi- cal College in 1901. He pursued a post- graduate course in the same institution on the eye, ear, nose and throat, and also in the Philadelphia Polyclinic, from which he graduated in 1903. He, in the meantime, had been engaged in general practice at

New Wilmington for two years, and in 1904 located in New Castle. He is a mem- ber of the Lawrence Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

EDMUND ARTHUR DONNAN, A. M., M. D., has been in active practice in New Castle since 1881. He was born in Hickory, Wash- ington County, Pa., February 22, 1858; he attended Jefferson Academy at Canons- burg and the high school at Washington, after which he entered Washington and Jefferson College. He was graduated with the degree of A. B., in 1877, and several years later that institution conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He read medi- cine in Pittsburg, with a cousin, Dr. Ing. Donnan, and was graduated from Jeffer- son Medical College in 1880. He was visit- ing surgeon for the Charity Hospital in Philadelphia six months, then in 1881 lo- cated in New Castle, where he has since continued. He is a member of the Law- rence County Medical Society, and the Pennsylvania State Medical Society.

LOUIS P. KNOLL, PH. G., M. D., a spe- cialist on the eye, ear, nose and throat, who is engaged in practice in New Castle, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., March 7, 1877. After graduating from Buffalo High School, he took a two years' course in bi- ology in the University of Maryland. He read medicine under his brother, Dr. John G. W. Knoll, of Buffalo, and was grad- uated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1904. He spent six months in the German Deaconess' Hos- pital, at Buffalo, then moved to New Castle, where he has since continued. The degree of Ph. G. was received by him from the University of the State of New York. Dur- ing the Spanish-American War, he enlist- ed as hospital steward, and was first as- signed to the Norfolk Naval Hospital, and later to the Monitor Puritan, and the Gun- boat Mangrove. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

ELIZABETH MCLAUGHREY, A. B., M. D.,

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of New Castle, was born in New Wilming- ton, Pa., and received a classical educa- tion in Westminster College, from which she graduated in 1887. After teaching three years in the high school at Braddock, Pa., she entered the Woman's Medical Col- lege of Pennsylvania, located at Philadel- phia, and was graduated in 1894. She spent one year at the New England Hos- pital in Boston, then located in New Castle in 1895. She has taken two post-graduate courses at Johns Hopkins University, in gynecology and diseases of children; spent two months in Great Ormond St. Hospital, London, on diseases of children, and a like period on gynecology and obstetrics in Al- geminen Krankenhause, at Vienna. She is a member of the Lawrence County Medi- cal Society and the State Medical Society.

HOLLIS G. DEAN, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, June 23, 1865; was educated in McElwain Institute in New Lebanon, and then read medicine under Dr. J. M. Douds, of Mer- cer. He graduated from the Chicago Ho- meopathic College in 1891, then engaged in practice at Franklin, Pa., and in Oil City, until his removal to New Castle some seven years later. He took post-graduate work in New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital, in 1907, especially on diseases of the stomach. He is a member of the Penn- sylvania State Homeopathic Medical Soci- ety, the American Institute of Homeop- athy, the Lawrence County Medical Soci- ety and the American Medical Association.

JESSE R. DEAN, M. D., has been in prac- tice in New Castle since 1894. He was born near Portersville, in Butler County, September 24, 1871; was educated in the public schools and Grove City College, and attended the medical department of West- ern University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1894. For nearly a year he was in attendance at St. Thomas Hospital, London, then located in New Castle. He is a member of the Law- rence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, the American Medical As-

sociation and the Physicians' Club of New Castle.

EDWARD BARNES, M. D., specialist on chronic diseases, at New Castle, was born in Sandy Lake, Mercer County, Pa., No- vember 30, 1856; was educated in the com- mon schools and Edinboro State Normal School, and read medicine under Drs. M. R. Boyd and J. R. Borland, of Franklin. He graduated from the Eclectic Medical College of Indianapolis, in 1882, and first located for practice in Westmoreland County. He was in ill health for about fifteen years and did little practice. In 1899 he located in New Castle and as a specialist has since been in active prac- tice. He is a member of the Pennsyl- vania Eclectic Medical Association and the Eclectic National Medical Association. In 1889 he pursued a post-graduate course in the New York Post-Graduate School. He has served as a member of the Com- mon Council of New Castle, and, in 1903, was city physician. He is a member of the staff of the Shenango Valley Hospital.

JAMES M. POPP, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Allegheny City February 11, 1863; was educated in the public schools, and read medicine under Dr. Charles Clif- ford, of Braddock, Pa. He was graduated from the medical department of Western University of Pennsylvania, March 25, 1897, then took an additional year of post- graduate work in that institution. He was then for a time interne in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, and in 1898 located in New Castle. He is a member of the Physicians' Club, of the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has specialized somewhat in surgery.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER WOMER, A. B., M. D., became established in practice in New Castle in 1905. He was born at Mer- cer, Pa., February 26, 1881; attended the public schools and McElwain Institute at New Lebanon, and in 1896 was graduated from the academic department and in music, at Allegheny College, from which

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he was graduated in 1900, with the degree of A. B. During this time he was for a year principal of the commercial department, and during the last year was assistant to the professor of biology. He graduated from the medical department of Western University of Pennsylvania in 1905, and be- gan practice in New Castle. He is a mem- ber of the Physicians' Club of New Castle, the Lawrence Medical Society, of which he is secretary ; the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is author of a volume entitled, "German for Physicians."

WILLIAM GILBERT WILSON, M. D., has been in practice in New Castle since 1893. He was born in Wilmington Township, Lawrence County, January 27, 1850, and attended the public schools and West- minster College. He then engaged in teaching for eight years in the public schools of Lawrence and Mercer Counties, and in the meantime read medicine under Dr. A. C. Pettitt, of New Wilmington. He attended Cleveland Medical College one term, then the Cincinnati College of Medi- cine and Surgery, from which he was grad- uated in 1876. July 19, 1876, he opened an office for practice at Pulaski, where he continued until his removal to New Castle, May, 1893. He is a member of the Law- rence County Medical Society.

JAMES K. POLLOCK, M. D., was born in New Castle April 19, 1845, and was edu- cated in the public schools. He read medi- cine under the direction of Dr. M. P. Bark- er and was graduated from Miami Medical College of Cincinnati in 1873. He has prac- ticed in New Castle continuously since that time. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

WALTER LOWRIE CAMPBELL, B. S., M. D., of New Castle, was born in Moniteau, But- ler County, March 4, 1876, and was edu- cated in Grove City High School and Grove City College, graduating from the latter in 1900. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1903, and after prac- ticing two years in Mobile, located in New

Castle on April 1, 1905. He is a member of the Physicians' Club of New Castle, the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

SAMUEL WARNER, M. D., of New Castle, was born at West Newton, Pa., March 27, 1876; was educated in the public schools and a commercial college. He was grad- uated from Cleveland Homeopathic Medi- cal College in 1899, doing hospital work during the last two years of his college course. He has practiced in New Castle since that time.

THOMAS F. COLLINS, A. B., M. D., was born at Volant, Lawrence County, Pa., Feb- ruary 14, 1878; graduated from Volant College, and in 1904 from the Eclectic Med- ical College of Cincinnati. He practiced at Jackson Center for less than a year, then in Volant three years, and, in March, 1908, located in New Castle. He is a member of the Alumnal Association of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati.

JOHN W. COVERT, M. D., of New Castle, was born at Covert Station, Lawrence County, July 18, 1837, and is a son of Dr. William Covert, who was a native of Law- rence County and practiced in that and Mercer Counties for many years, living near Edinburg. John W. Covert was edu- cated in the high school at New Lebanon, and read medicine under Dr. S. A. Boyn- ton, of Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical Col- lege in 1879, and immediately after located in New Castle. During the Civil War he served one year in the One Hundredth (Roundhead) Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- unteer Infantry, and two years in Battery H., Third Light Artillery of Pennsyl- vania.

JESSE D. MOORE, A. B., M. D., who has been in active practice of his profession in New Castle since 1885, making a specialty of the eye, was born in Neshannock Town- ship, Lawrence County, July 2, 1859. He was educated in the district schools, the public schools of New Castle and what was known as "the one study" school, after-

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wards called New Castle College, and in old Darlington Academy, and afterward Westminster College, from which he grad- served as an instructor there. In the mean- time, he prosecuted the study of medicine with Dr. Frazier, a man of advanced ideas, far ahead of his time. Dr. Wallace grad- uated from Jefferson College in 1848, and in that year began practice in New Castle. He was twice a member of Congress from his district and one of the foremost men of his day. He was a member of the old Law- rence County Medical Society. uated in 1882. He read medicine under Dr. R. D. Wallace, and attended the medi- cal department of the University of the City of New York, graduating in the spring of 1885. He has since done post-graduate work in the New York Polyclinic, and the University of New York. He is medical inspector for Lawrence County, chief clinic of the dispensary for tuberculosis for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and is a member of the International Congress on Tuberculosis. He is a member of the Law- rence County Medical Society and has served as delegate to the State Medical So- ciety.

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Century history of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania and representative citizens, 20th, Part 21

Author: Hazen, Aaron L. (Aaron Lyle), 1837- comp. and ed. cn Publication date: 1908 Publisher: Chicago, Richmond-Arnold publishing co. Number of Pages: 1058

Author: Hazen, Aaron L. (Aaron Lyle), 1837- comp. and ed. cn
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: Chicago, Richmond-Arnold publishing co.
Number of Pages: 1058