Century history of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania and representative citizens, 20th, Part 22

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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ROBERT A. WALLACE, M. D., was born in New Castle July 29, 1855, and is a son of Dr. James J. Wallace, now deceased. He was educated in the public schools and read medicine under his father. He was graduated from Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, in 1877, and was thereafter as- sociated in practice with his father until the latter's death in 1887; since that time he has practiced alone. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the Ameri- can Medical Association.

JAMES J. WALLACE, M. D., who was one of the original members of the Lawrence County Medical Society and for many years a practitioner of New Castle, was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Sep- tember 29, 1824, and died December 19, 1887. He was educated at Darlington Academy and Meadville College, and read medicine with Dr. Frazier, of Darlington. He also read for a time with his brother, Dr. John W. Wallace, and then entered Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1850. He immediately after began practice in New Castle, where he continued withont interruption until his death.

J. W. WALLACE, M. D., one of the early physicians and surgeons in New Castle, was born in Beaver County, in 1817, and died in 1889. He was graduated from the

J. R. Cox, M. D., coroner of Lawrence County, began the practice of his profes- sion in New Castle in 1898. He was born in Pulaski Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, received his early educa- tional training in the district schools and Grove City College, and his professional training in the Cleveland Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1896. After practicing two years at Edinburg, he removed to New Castle, where he has since continued. He has served five years as coroner of Lawrence County. Dr. Cox is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society.

ELMER PATTERSON NORRIS, M. D., with offices in the Henderson Block, at New Cas- tle, has been engaged in practice in that city since 1902. He was born in New Cas- tle October 28, 1871, attended the public schools and Edinburg State Normal School, and in 1892 matriculated in Jeffer- son Medical College, at Philadelphia; he graduated from that institution in 1856, having also, in the meantime, pursued spe- cial courses under Drs. Kyle and DaCosta, eminent specialists connected with St. Agnes', Lockley and Jefferson Hospitals. He spent one year in hospital work in Philadelphia prior to engaging in private practice. Dr. Norris was located in prac- tice at Hillsville three years, then in 1902 moved to New Castle.

BRANT E. SANKEY, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1873, and was educated in the public schools of New Castle, whither his parents had moved when he was young. He entered Cleveland Medical College, and after his graduation

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with the class of 1895, began practice in New Castle. He is affiliated with the Law- rence County Medical Society, the Physi- cians' Club, the State Homeopathic Med- ical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy.

WALTER E. MILLER, M. D., who, in addi- tion to the practice of medicine in New Castle is proprietor of the Avenue Hotel, was born in that city in 1871. After com- pleting the prescribed course in the public schools he attended Oberlin College for two years. He attended medical lectures at the Western University of Pennsylva- nia and was graduated in 1894. He has since practiced in his natal city. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society.

D. E. EVANS, M. D., a member of the firm of Evans & Williams, medical prac- titioners of New Castle, was born in Wales in 1852 and was about sixteen years of age when he became a resident of this country. He attended the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md., and received his degree from Baltimore University in 1892. He located in practice in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where he continued until 1899, in which year he became associated with Dr. T. V. Williams in New Castle.

T. V. WILLIAMS, M. D., of the medical firm of Evans & Williams, was born in Wales, where he received a preliminary education and began preparation for the medical profession. He came to the Unit- ed States in his twenty-eighth year, and completed his professional training in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, graduating in 1892. Prior to locating in New Castle he practiced for some time at Antioch, Pa.

S. W. PERRY, M. D., of New Castle, was born in that city in 1874, and there re- ceived his early schooling. He began the study of medicine under a preceptor and subsequently entered the medical depart- ment of the University of Michigan. He later entered Washington and Jefferson College and was graduated in 1899, imme-

diately thereafter engaging in practice in New Castle. He is a member of the Physi- cians' Club, the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association.

LOYAL WILBUR WILSON, M. D., of New Castle, was born in Beaver Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1866. He attended the public schools and pursued a special course in Latin and Greek under Professor Roup, of the West- ern University of Pennsylvania. He sub- sequently attended the medical depart- ment of that institution and was gradu- ated in 1891. Some years later, in 1898, he took a course in the Post-Graduate Col- lege of New York City. Dr. Wilson was an interne at St. Francis Hospital, Pitts- burg, in 1891, and later in the same year began practice at Wampum, Lawrence County; he continued there until Febru- ary, 1898, then located at Mahoningtown, where he practiced until 1904, the year in which he moved to New Castle.

CHARLES A. REED, M. D., with office at No. 26 North Mercer Street, New Castle. was born in Shenango Township, Law- rence County, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1858. He attended the district schools of his native township, and subsequently the New Castle High School and Edinboro Academy. He read medicine several years prior to entering Miami Medical College at Cincinnati in 1882, from which institu- tion he was graduated in 1885. He served as resident physician in Western Pennsyl- vania Hospital at Pittsburg for a short time, then, in July, 1886, began practice at New Castle, where he has been located continuously since.

MONTGOMERY LINVILLE, M. D., who has been continuously engaged in the practice of medicine in New Castle since 1873, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1854. He graduated from Beth- any College in West Virginia, and subse- quently from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1873, being then nineteen years of age. He shortly thereafter em- barked in practice in New Castle. He is a.

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member of the Lawrence County Medical Society, State Association of Physicians and Surgeons and the National Associa- tion of Railway Surgeons.

EDWIN S. COOPER, M. D., whose residence and office are located at No. 74 North Mill Street, New Castle, was born in Taylor Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylva- nia, January 3, 1872. He attended the pub- lic schools of New Castle and Grove City College. In 1892 he entered upon the study of medicine under the direction of his brother, Dr. Joseph L. Cooper, now deceased, and subsequently attended West- ern Pennsylvania Medical College, from which he was graduated March 25, 1896. He then practiced in partnership with his brother in New Castle until the latter's death, since which time he has continued alone. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and other fraternal organizations.

THOMAS J. BLACKWOOD, M. D., has been engaged in the practice of his profession in New Castle for a period of more than thirty-four years. He was born in Slip- pery Rock Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1844; he at- tended the district schools and Beaver Academy at Beaver Falls, after which he entered Jefferson Medical College of Phil- adelphia. He was graduated from that in- stitution in 1866, and thereafter practiced in Butler County until his removal to New Castle in 1873.

JAMES M. BLACKWOOD, M. D., of New Castle, is engaged in practice in associa- tion with his father, Dr. Thomas J. Black- wood. He is a graduate of Beaver Falls College and Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.

Beaver and Lawrence Counties. In 1902 he matriculated in the medical department of the Western University of Pennsylva- nia and was graduated in 1906. He has since practiced in Mahoningtown. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medi- cal Society.

WILLIAM L. STEEN, M. D., is located in practice at Mahoningtown and maintains offices in the Postoffice Block. He was born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1874, and received his early schooling in the graded and high schools of New Castle. After leaving the latter he was for seven years postal clerk on the Pennsyl- vania Railroad. In the meantime he had begun preparation for the medical profes- sion, and in 1901 he entered the medical department of the Western University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1905. He is a member of Lawrence County Medical Society.

FRANK FORREST UREY, M. D., of Mahon- ingtown, with office at No. 208 North Lib- erty Street, was born at Sandy Lake, Mer- cer County, Pa., August 16, 1872. He at- tended the district schools, McElaine In- stitute at New Lebanon, and Slippery. Rock Normal School, after which he engaged in teaching for five years. In 1894 he entered the drug business at Wampum and con- tinued at various points in Northwestern Pennsylvania at different times, becoming a

licensed pharmacist. In September, 1896, he entered the medical department of the Western University of Pennsylva- nia and was graduated in 1900; he then en- gaged in hospital work in Shenango Valley one year, and June 1, 1901, began practice at Wampum, where he was located until his removal to Mahoningtown. Prior to 1906 he was for some time a partner in a drug store at Wampum. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the Ameri- can Medical Association.

FRANKLIN WHEELER GUY, M. D., of Ma- honingtown, was born in Chewton, Law- rence County, Pa., July 28, 1870. His edu- cational training was received in the dis- triet schools of Lawrence, Morgan (Ohio) and Beaver Counties, and in the Beaver CHARLES W. DAVIS, M. D., of Mahoning- town, was born in Shenango Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, Septem- Falls High School. After his graduation from the last named school in 1889 he en- gaged in teaching for seven years in ber 29, 1866, and has been engaged in prac-

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tice in this village since 1895. He was reared on a farm and attended the district schools, and subsequently the State Nor- mal at Edinburg four years, graduating therefrom in 1890; in the meantime he had taught school winter terms, and continued two years after graduation. In 1892 he entered Western Pennsylvania Medical College, from which institution he received his degree in 1895. He pursued a post- graduate course at the New York Poly. clinic in New York City. His only field of practice has been at Mahoningtown. He is a member of the Lawrence County Medical Society.

EDWIN D. JACKSON, M. D., whose office is at No. 207 North Cedar Street, has been engaged in practice in Mahoningtown since June 15, 1904. He was born in Wayne Township, Lawrence County, July 3, 1874, and in his younger days attended the pub- lic schools of Chewton. He attended Grove City College five terms and also Slippery Rock Normal, after which he took up the study of medicine. He graduated from the medical department of Western Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in May, 1889. He was successively engaged in practice at Allenport, Washington County, in Fayette County, in Edinburg, Lawrence County, and at West Pittsburg, prior to his resi- dence in Mahoningtown. He is a member of Lawrence County Medical Society and State Medical Society.

H. E. ZIMMERMAN, M. D., has been in the practice of his profession at Mt. Jackson, Lawrence County, since 1865. He was born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1831; he attended Greenville Academy and studied medicine under the direction of Dr. F. H. Judd, of Greenville. He began practice July 13, 1854, near Fredonia, Mercer County; moved to Clarksville in the fall of the same year; in 1858 moved to Middletown, Mahoning County, Ohio; June 1, 1862, located at Mt. Jackson; in March, 1863, returned to Clarksville, and in 1865 returned to Mt. Jackson, where he has been located continuously since.

been in practice at Ellwood City since 1891, was formerly a representative from Lawrence County in the Pennsylvania Leg- islature. He was born in this county Feb- ruary 18, 1845; was a soldier in Company K, 100th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- teer Infantry, during the Civil War; in 1865 entered Western Reserve Medical College at Cleveland, and was graduated from that institution March 4, 1868. On April 15, 1868, he began practice at New Bedford and continued until 1891; in the meantime he served as postmaster, from 1872 until 1884; was elected to the Legis- lature in 1884 and re-elected in 1886. He has been a member of the Pension Board at New Castle since 1889, except for the four years of Cleveland's second adminis- tration. He is a member of the council of the borough of Ellwood City.

SAMUEL S. DAVIDSON, M. D., of Ellwood City, was born at Wampum, Big Beaver Township, Lawrence County, November 23, 1859; was educated at Western Univer- sity of Pennsylvania and Jefferson Medi- cal College. After graduation from the latter in 1882 he spent two years in medi- cal studies and scientific investigations in the hospitals of London, Vienna and Ber- lin. Upon his return to America he began practice at Mercer, Pa., and continued for twelve years, five years of which he was in charge of the State Hospital. He has been located at Ellwood City some six years. Dr. Davidson is a member of the American Medical Association and the Pennsylvania State Medical Society.

CHARLES M. ISEMAN, M. D., a practi- tioner of Ellwood City since 1895, was born near Freeport, Armstrong County, Pa., December 4, 1868. He attended Free- port Academy and Tell College at Green- ville, Mercer County, from which he re- ceived the degree of A. B. in 1891; West- ern Reserve Medical College at Cleveland, and Western Pennsylvania Medical Col- lege at Pittsburg, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1894. He practiced in Armstrong County fifteen months, then

HON. SILAS STEVENSON, M. D., who has moved to Ellwood City, where he has since

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resided. He is a member of the Beaver County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

OSCAR EVANS BRADLEY, M. D., who is en- gaged in the practice of osteopathy at Ell- wood City, was born at Memphis, Scot- land County, Mo., August 30, 1874; at- tended State Normal at Kirksville, Mo .; the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, and pursued a post-graduate course in osteopathy at St. Louis in 1903. He first practiced at Macomb, Ill., and in October, 1906, located at Ellwood City.

WILLIAM A. SHANNON, M. D., of Ell- wood City, was born in Mercer, Mercer County, in 1863; was graduated from Grove City College with the degree of A. B. in 1888, and from Jefferson Medical College in 1892. He has practiced in Ell- wood City since 1893.

EDWIN E. LAMB, M. D., of Ellwood City, was born in Worth Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, September 30, 1869. He attended McElaine Institute at Leb- anon, Grove City College and the Cleve- land Homeopathic Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1897. He has been located at Ellwood City throughout his professional career.

JOSEPH RHODES, M. D., of Chewton, was born in that village, Wayne Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1848. He attended New Sewickley Acad- emy and Muhlenberg College, and in 1871 entered Belleview Hospital Medical Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1874; he has since practiced in Chewton.

C. B. HUNT, M. D., of Rose Point, Slip- pery Rock Township, was born in Law- rence County, March 20, 1867 ; he attended Sunbury Academy and Grove City Col- lege, the Baltimore Medical College, the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadel . phia, the Post-Graduate College of New York, and pursued a special course on the eye in the New York New Polyclinic. He engaged in practice at Princeton, Law- rence County, four years, then for three years represented an opticianal firm as

commercial traveler. In 1901 he located at Rose Point.

CHARLES S. McGEORGE, M. D., of Enon Valley, was born in Darlington Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1875. He attended Slippery Rock College, and later the medical department of West- ern University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1900. He en- gaged in practice at Mars, Butler County, until November, 1906, since which time he has been located at Enon.

GEORGE H. MEHARD, M. D., who has been in practice at Wampum since 1891, was born at Wurtemburg, Wayne Township, September 22, 1857. He was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College at Washington, Pa., in 1879; from Western Reserve Medical College in 1881, and from Jefferson Medical College in 1882. He engaged at practice in Wurtemburg nine years, then in 1891 located at Wampum, where he now lives.

HARRY H. DAVIS, M. D., of Wampum, was born on a farm near New Castle May 31, 1871; he attended the Moravia public schools and the State Normal at Edinburg, after which he engaged in teaching four years. He was graduated from the medi- cal department of Western University of Pennsylvania in 1895, but prior to that time had pursued the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Joseph Cooper, of New Castle. He engaged in practice in Warren County for six years, then located at Wampum.

WILLIAM L. SMITH, M. D., who has been a resident of New Wilmington since 1880, was born in New Bedford, Pa., January 10, 1846. After completing a course in Westminster College he studied medicine at Jefferson Medical College at Philadel- phia, graduating in 1875. He engaged in practice at East Brook four years, then located at New Wilmington in 1880.

CHARLES E. TRAINOR, M. D., New Wil- mington, was born at Vicksburg, Miss., June 18, 1876; he attended private schools in Vicksburg, the high school at New Wil- mington, and obtained his education in

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medical science in Jefferson Medical Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1902. He was successful in a competitive examina- tion which entitled him to a position as Interne in the Methodist Hospital in Phila- delphia, which institution he served for thirteen months. He then returned to New Wilmington, where he has since been in practice.

WILLIAM A. CLARK, JR., M. D., of New Wilmington, was born at Great Belt, in Butler County, Pa., April 3, 1879. His education was obtained in the public schools and under private instructors. He came into possession of an electric light plant at New Wilmington, which had been installed by his father, and operated that up until the time he entered Western Re- serve College at Cleveland, when he sold out. He had previously pursued a prepar- atory course at Westminster College. After one year at Western Reserve he en- tered Jefferson Medical College and at- tended one year, then took a special course of study on diseases of the stomach at Chi- cago University. He engaged in practice at Volant, Pa., two years, then located at New Wilmington.

HERBERT E. BARR, M. D., has engaged in practice at New Wilmington during his en- tire professional career. He was born at Gujoanwalla, India, December 4, 1871. He is a graduate of Westminster College, took a special course in Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, and was gradu- ated in medicine at the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. His practice has been solely at New Wilmington.

SAMUEL WESLEY PERRY, M. D., was born in New Castle May 10, 1874, and was edu- cated in the high school of the city. He read medicine under Dr. Montgomery Lin- ville, attended the medical department of the University of Michigan two years and the Jefferson Medical College two years, graduating from the last named in 1899. He was resident physician of Shenango Valley Hospital one year, and then em- barked in practice. He is a member of the Physicians' Club of New Castle, Lawrence

County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Asso- ciation. He is at present on the surgical staff of the Shenango Valley Hospital.

H. ELMORE ZERNER, M. D., who has been a resident of New Castle since 1893, was born in Johnstown, Pa., July 19, 1872; he was taken by his parents to Braddock, Pa., in 1875, and there received his education in the common and high schools. He grad- uated from the medical department of the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1899, and during the last year was in the Reinman Maternity Hospital and Free Dis- pensary, a privilege accorded to the ten students having the highest marks. He engaged in practice in New Castle after graduation, to which city he had moved in January, 1893. He is a member of the Physicians' Club of New Castle, of which he was one of the organizers; the Law- rence County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

CHARLES L. KIRKHAM, D. O., was born in Rushville, Ill., January 6, 1872; was edu- cated in the public schools of Gem City and the State Normal School at Galesburg. He was graduated from the American School of Osteopathy, at Kirksville, Mo., in 1902, and located in October of that year. About eight months later he went to Niagara Falls, where he remained about two years; then, in January, 1906, returned to New Castle.

ELMER D. ROGERS, D. O., of New Castle, was born in Brooklyn, Iowa, July 14, 1861, attended the high school of his native town, and later the American School of Osteop- athy, at Kirksville, Mo., graduating there- from in 1903. He has practiced in New Castle since that date. He is a member of the Western Pennsylvania Osteopathic Association, and the American Osteopathic Association.

DR. ANNIE MCCASLIN, osteopath, at New Castle, was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and educated in the com- mon schools and Slate Lick Academy. She took up the profession of nursing, and later

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entered the American School of Oste- opathy, at Kirksville, Mo., from which she graduated in 1906. She has since prac- ticed in New Castle. She is a member of the Western Pennsylvania Osteopathic As- sociation and the American Osteopathic Association.

THE LAWRENCE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY was first organized in New Castle on April 19, 1868 (or 1869), and the following of- ficers were elected: R. D. Wallace, presi-

dent ; Silas Stevenson, vice-president ; John D. Wood, secretary, and H. P. Peebles, treasurer. This body passed from ex- istence in 1876, and thereafter there was no medical society until 1886. In the lat- ter year, through the activity of Drs. M. Linville and R. A. Wallace, a new organiza- tion was effected, and the present Law- rence County Medical Society came into being, with Dr. J. W. Wallace as its presi- dent.

CHAPTER XII

EDUCATION

Public and Parochial Schools-Growth and Present Efficiency-Early Educators- Results Accomplished.

There is no one thing which so reflects the character of a community, the progres- sive tendency and the ambitions of its citizens, as the efficiency of the school sys- tem. Men who are willing to assume the burdens of increased taxation, in order that their children be given greater educational advantages than they themselves had been favored with, are a most desirable type, and where such a condition is met with, the community is always found to be in an advanced state of progress, socially, morally and in the realms of business. The pioneers of the territory now embraced within Lawrence County, in the early days, recognized it as a duty to educate the chil- dren, and saw to the establishment of schools of the rude type, characteristic of that period. From that day to this, the schools here have been maintained at a high standard, and have been unexcelled by those of any other county in the state.

The first school was opened in New Castle about the year of 1804, in a log building, about 18x18 feet in dimensions, standing above what is now North Street, at a little distance west of the spring at the foot of Shaw's Hill. It was heated by means of an old-fashioned fireplace, which was supplied with "back-logs" and "fore- stick" by the large boys who attended the school. In the winter time, when it was necessary to keep the door shut, the room must have been anything but comfortable and inviting. It was rather dimly lighted,

owing to the fact that the windows, instead of being made of glass, were of greased paper, through which but few rays of sun- shine could struggle. The long benches on which the pupils sat while conning their lessons were made by splitting small logs in two, and then taking the halves, smooth- ing the flat side of each of them with an axe, and attaching legs to the round side. The first schoolmaster in the little town was Robert Dickey, and other of the early instructors were, successively: John Dick- ey, Richard Shearer, Joseph Thornton, Al- exander Duncan, Miss Sarah De Wolf (the first lady teacher in the city), and Matthew Calvin.

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Century history of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania and representative citizens, 20th, Part 22

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