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Kaine, Daniel.
November 20, 1855
Kurtz, David B
March 19, 1866
Kuhn, E. P.
March 27, 1868
Larwill, William. February 6, 1804
Larwell, William C February 6, 1804
Leet, Isaac. August 28, 1826
Lowrie, Walter H. . June 5, 1832
Lowry, Matthew S December 2, 1834
Loomis, A. W. May 29, 1843
Lancaster, C .. September 6, 1843
Large, John R .. November 8, 1850
Lamberton, Henry W
January 26, 1853
Hon. Alfred S. Moore.
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Long, Odell S.
June 5, 1862
Leonard, David H September 14, 1864
Little, L. W.
June 5, 1866
Ledlie, Joseph. November 11, 1867
Leibinick, J. J. (see S) September 8, 1868
Lester, Cornelius R September Term, 1872
Lowrie, James A. March 16, 1874
Laird, Frank H.
. June 18, 1883
Langfitt, Joseph Alonzo
November 12, 1888
Lyons, Elmer
July 2, 1896
Moore, Robert. February 6, 1804
Mountain, James. February 6, 1804
Marshall, John. .August 2, 1808
Marshall, James C. August 28, 1828
Mountain, A. S. . August 28, 1828
Meredith, Simon October 28, 1830
Mahon, J. D.
September 4, 1834
Musser, Joseph B.
. July 11, 1843
Maxwell, William
March 15, 1850
Magaw, Samuel. June 4, 1855
Marshall Thomas M
November 29, 1855
Morlan, William S.
September 14, 1857
Marshall, Kennedy
November 21, 1859
Mason, Samuel R.
January 4, 1865
Montgomery, William
. June 5, 1866
Morris, D. S.
. March 20, 1867
Moore, Henry R
November 18, 1869
Moore, A. S.
September 4, 1871
Mueller, John H
1872
Martin, N. C.
September 1, 1873
Moorhead, John W
. June 7, 1875
Moore, Winfield S. March 15, 1876
Marshall, Alfred P.
April 28, 1876
Mac Connell, John G.
.April 8, 1878
Martin, James Rankin
February 6, 1882
Mecklem, Millard F March 6, 1882 Mellon, William Joseph. May 15, 1882
Moreland, William C. February 18, 1884
Martin, William H . March 29, 1888
Miller, Henry A. December 14, 1888
Meyer, Henry
January 18, 1889
Marshall, Thomas, Jr
. March 21, 1893
Morrison, William Sturgeon . August 18, 1893
Marshall, Henry N. . September 26, 1893
Martin, Jeremiah Calvin September 19, 1894
Moorhead, Forest G. . April 18, 1902
May, Charles Reeves.
January 26, 1904
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McDonald, John. January 5, 1808
Mclaughlin, William January 12, 1829
Mclaughlin, James .January 13, 1829
McCandless, Wilson. December 6, 1831
McClowry, John N . March 11, 1846
McGuffin, J. N
November 23, 1847
McGuffin, L. L.
McNeill, John. September 2, 1851
McElrath, Archibald October 18, 1853
McCombs, John C. .June 12, 1866
McCreery, James Harvey
April 27, 1870
McConaghey, John G ..
. June 9, 1875
McCoy, Alexander Winfield.
.June 10, 1878
McKenna, Charles Francis . May 6, 1882
McCombs, Robert B.
. June 26, 1886
McConnel, William Appleton.
January 23, 1893
McConnell, Malcolm.
. June 9, 1893
McBride, Junius William Ulston December 29, 1893
McCarter, Clement Byron. May 4, 1896
McClure, John Benjamin.
July 3, 1897
Mckenzie, Joseph Clark.
September 6, 1897
McGoun, John Blaine
May 2, 1898
Nicholson, Thomas C March 20, 1861,
Naugle, David S.
May 19, 1884
Nelson, David A.
. June 2, 1884
Nodine, Gilbert A.
April 28, 1904
Oliphant, E. P 1852
Otis, W. C. S
.June 5, 1865
Pentecost, Joseph May 8, 1804
Pickens, Israel. November 8, 1804
Picknoll, Hugh.
August 8, 1810
Purviance, Samuel A October 28, 1828
Pentland, E. April 11, 1831
Purviance, John N September 2, 1851
Power, Samuel A.
August 2, 1859
Piersol, Benjamin K. September 10, 1862
Patterson, David F .June 5, 1866
Pusey, William B., Jr.
.April 27, 1870
Piersol, James K. .June 13, 1870 Patterson, George E . November 3, 1879
Pier, William S. February 18, 1884
Pierce, William Lemmex December 19, 1887
Prescott, James W.
. June 26, 1891
Potter, Washington Mcclellan January 13, 1896
Patterson, Milton James March 5, 1901
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R. W. Stiffey. L. W. Reed.
J. A. Elliott. J. L. Holmes.
W. H. Martin.
Robert Ritchie.
F. H. Laird. W. C. French.
R. S. Holt. W. B. Cuthbertson. J. Sharp. Wilson. T. M. Henry. James Cameron. S. J. Black.
Roger Cope.
A. P. Marshall.
A. S. Moore.
J. M. Buchanan.
J. F. Reed. E. N. Bigger.
W. S. Morlan. J. J. Wickham.
D. A. Nelson. George Wilson .;
W. J. Mellon. M. F. Mecklem. W. H. S. Thomson.
J. R. Martin.
L. E. Grim. A. W. McCoy. Joseph Ledlie. J. R. Harrah. F. H. Agnew.
W. S. Moore. J. B. Young. E. B. Daugherty."_G. L. Eberhart.
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Pence, Edward Harrison.
February 20, 1903
Quay, Matthew Stanley October 13, 1854
Redick, David. . February 6, 1804
Roberts, Horatio N September 5, 1831
Roberts, Richard P
. March 15, 1848
Rutan, James Smith
January 16, 1861
Ruple, Charles M
June 5, 1866
Reed, Bernard I.
. May 17, 1868
Reeves, Wilbur A.
March 2, 1875
Reed, John F.
September 14, 1877 . May 7, 1888
Reno, William Wilson
February 4, 1889
Ritchie, Robert ..
September 3, 1889
Reader, Frank Eugene
October 29, 1891
Rouser, Frank Howard.
. April 23, 1894
Rheem, W. C
February 8, 1900
Sample, C. S.
February 6, 1804
Semple, Steel.
February 6, 1804
Shannon, John R
. October 3, 1808
Shaw, George. . August 29, 1827
Shields, Thomas L. September 5, 1831
Sullivan, Charles C .June 5, 1832
April 8, 1833
Smith, George W
. June 3, 1833
Sample, S. N.
March 7, 1838
Scroggs, Gustavus A.
. June 4, 1845
Stowe, Edwin H
March 14, 1850
Snowden, Edmond.
September 13, 1854
Sweitzer, J. B
. June 12, 1859
Selden, George S.
November 21, 1860
Schoyer, Solomon.
October 31, 1861
Shinn, Thornton A
June 5, 1865
Siebeneck, J. J.
September 8, 1868
Stoner, James.
. March 15, 1869
Stevenson, John H
December 29, 1869
Small, Oscar A. .
October 10, 1872
Sterrett, James P
. April 8, 1878
Shiras, George, Jr. April 8, 1878
Slagle, Jacob F . February 18, 1884
Shields, James M September 3, 1888 Stiffey, Richard W .August 5, 1889
Stone, Dan. H.
September 19, 1892
Stone, William Alexis. September 22, 1892
Stone, Charles Henry
December 7, 1896
Reed, Lewis W.
February 6, 1804
Simonson, John
Stewart, James H.
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Sebring, Lawrence Monroe. September 2, 1901
Todd, Bradford E . September 8, 1841
Taylor, Lewis .. . September 4, 1843
Thomson, Alexander R. September 14, 1857
Taylor, Alexander W
September 9, 1869
Thomson, W. H. S.
. December 5, 188 1
Twiford, Daniel M.
December 3, 1889
Tomlinson, Sidney Lee
February 3, 1902
Von Bonhorst, Charles
August 23, 1824
Veon, J. H.
September 3, 1866
Vosler, John W
.June 5, 1876
Wilkins, William
February 6, 1804
Weigley, Joseph.
August 7, 1804
White, John.
August 2, 1808
Wilkins, Charles
November 8, 1808
Watts, Henry M
Wills, James.
August 4, 1812
Walker, A. S.
August 22, 1822
Watson, George.
August 25, 1823
Waugh, John Hoge
October 27, 1828
Wallace, John B
January 13, 1829
Williamson, John
June 5, 1843
Wilson, Joseph H
June 5, 1850
Wilson, Samuel B
November 18, 1850
Weir, Hugh W.
March 8, 1852
Williams, Thomas
. June 6, 1852
Welsh, Moses B
March 14, 1853
White, J. W. F
March 19, 1859
Wray, Andrew . May 4, 1864
Wilson, Frank.
March 27, 1866
Wilson, David S.
June 5, 1866
Whitsell, Jacob
September 6, 1867
Wilson, John S.
September 10, 1867
Wickham, John J.
March 15, 1869
Winternitz, B. A.
September 18, 1874
Wynn, Addison
July 15, 1875
Wallace, J. A.
December 9, 1875
Wood, Robert.
September 10, 1877
Wilson, George S.
March 4, 1878
Watson, David T
April 8, 1878
Wallace, William D .June 7, 1886
White, J. H . June 30, 1887
Woodward, Marcus A.
December 23, 1887
Wilson, James Sharp
June 4, 1888
Woods, William Speer
May 7, 1888
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Dan H. Stone. J. B. McClure. Elmer Lyons.
L. M. Sebring.
H. R. Calhoon.
J. F. Covert. F. E. Reader. C. R. Eckert.
Robert Darragh.
WV. M. Potter.
A. E. Barnett.
E. H. Pence.
J. B. McGoun.
J. W. U. McBride. R. A. Wilkinson.
A. T. Bonsall. J. Sharp Wilson.
W. S. Morrison. J. L. Hogan.
D. K. Cooper. E. S. Weyand. M. J. Patterson,
W. A. McConnel. D. M. Twiford.
C. B. McCarter.
Members of the Bar of Beaver County, 1903.
F. G. Moorhead. D. B. Hartford.
H. H. Wilson, C. H. Stone.
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Wilson, George ..
March 4, 1889
Weyand, Edwin Stanton May 31, 1892
Wilkinson, Romaine A
July 3, 1897
Wilson, Henry Hice. November 21, 1898
Young, John B VOL. I .- 24.
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CHAPTER X
MEDICAL HISTORY
Tributes to Profession-Scope of Chapter-Sketches of Prominent Physicians, Deceased-Healthfulness of Beaver County-Noted Epidemics-Beaver County Medical Society-Hospitals.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too .- Cymbeline, Act V., Sc. 2.
IF all men love a lover, they as surely love the physician who is in his calling for the good he can do, and not for pelf alone. Was it not Charles Lamb who said of the good phy- sician "There is healing in the very sound of his foot-fall on the stairs"? Art and literature have paid him grateful homage. Look at the picture of The Doctor by Luke Fildes! Read Bal- zac's The Country Doctor and Ian Maclaren's touching tribute to old "Weelum McLure," and Drummond's "Old Docteur Fiset":
But Docteur Fiset, not moche fonne he get, Drivin' all over de whole contree, If de road she 's bad, if de road she 's good, W'en ev'ryt'ing 's drown on de Spring-tam flood, An' workin' for not'ing half tam mebbe!
Let her rain or snow, all he want to know Is jus' if anywan's feelin' sick, For Docteur Fiset's de ole fashion kin', Doin' good was de only t'ing on hees min', So he got no use for de politique.
And no history would be complete which did not give full meed of praise to the labors of this class of the world's benefactors.
Beaver County, even from pioneer times, has had her full share of noble and self-sacrificing physicians. In the earliest period, indeed, they were few and far between, and it some-
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times fell to the lot of the hardy wives of the settlers to do the work of the physician and even, occasionally, of the surgeon, as may be read of Mrs. Adams in this chapter, and of Mary Dungan in the chapter on the first settlers. The story of the very earli- est laborers in this field can only be imperfectly told, because they have seldom left any records of themselves and of some, doubtless, not even the names survive. Of the living members of the fraternity our space forbids us to speak, but we have made diligent effort to obtain for this chapter notices of all deceased physicians who, by birth or service, have been iden- tified with the history of Beaver County.
One of the earliest physicians in Beaver County, probably the earliest one, was Samuel Adams, who came from Rowley, Massachusetts, and first settled on Chartiers Creek in Washing- ton County, Pa. He removed to what is now Beaver County sometime before 1800, and settled at the Upper Falls of the Beaver, where he bought four hundred acres of land, extending from what is now Seventeenth Street, Beaver Falls, north to the foot of the hill at the old car-barn, and west including what is now called Mount Washington. Here he built a cabin near the present Eastvale bridge. He also erected a dam and a grist- and saw-mill. The place was afterwards called Adamsville. At ninety years of age his eldest daughter used to relate intelli- gently and interestingly the incidents of the trip to the Falls as she made it with her father, and of their stopping on the way at Fort McIntosh.
Dr. Adams and his eldest son, Milo Adams, were the only physicians at that day on this side of Pittsburg, and they were sent for professionally from points thirty and forty miles dis- tant. Mrs. Samuel Adams herself had acquired considerable knowledge of medicine, often compounded drugs for the doc- tors, her husband and son, and in their absence frequently pre- scribed for patients, and even set fractured limbs. Dr. Adams, Sr., became a local minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and religious services and quarterly meetings were frequently held in his house, where he exercised a large hospitality, as many as forty or fifty people with their horses finding accommodation for several days at a time in his roomy house and barn. Dr. Adams died March 6, 1832, in the seventieth year of his age.
Milo Adams continued to practise in Beaver County, and
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held many positions of honor and trust in the county, being at one time (1842-45) sheriff of the same. He died August 18, 1846, at his residence in Sharon, now Bridgewater.
George W. Allison, born in Washington, Pa., in April, 1803, was the third son of Hon. James Allison, Jr. He graduated from Washington College and studied medicine under Dr. Milo Adams at Beaver. In 1828 he attended a course of lectures in the medical department of the University of Maryland. The following year he commenced the practice of his profession in Beaver, where he remained until his death. In 1841 he was married to Sarah K., daughter of James Lyon of the same place. His widow, with two daughters, still resides in Beaver; one daughter is in Pittsburg, and a daughter is employed in the United States Mint at Philadelphia. James Lyon was an interesting character. The story of his captivity among the Indians will be found in the chapter on Beaver borough. Dr. Allison attained the front rank in his profession. He repre- sented Beaver County in the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, being at one time its vice-president. He died December 7, 1863, in the sixty-first year of his age.
Zadoc Bliss, mentioned also in our chapter on the educa- tional history of the county, was the eldest son of Artemas and Rebecca Gorrell Bliss. His father came to Beaver County from Massachusetts during the early part of the last century, and his mother was a native of South Beaver township, this county, where the son, Zadoc, was born, August 6, 1821. When quite a young man he began teaching in the public schools of the county, following this work uninterruptedly for a period of ten years. He read medicine with the late Dr. James Barnes, and later entered Sterling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated in 1851. He immediately entered upon the practice of his new profession in his native township, where he continued until his death, May 14, 1875. November 25, 1852, Dr. Bliss was united in marriage to Rebecca McMillen, who, at the age of eighty-nine, resides in Beaver. She is also a native of South Beaver township, where her parents, John and Rebecca (Ar- buckle) McMillen of Washington County, Pa., settled in 1802. Two sons and two daughters were born to Zadoc and Rebecca
David Minis, Jr., M.D.
George W. Allison, M.D.
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Bliss, Howard, now Sheriff of Beaver County; and Wilber F., Professor of History in the State Normal School of San Diego, Cal .; and Sue and Rebecca, of Beaver.
R. J. Brittain of New Galilee was born in what was a part of Beaver County, now Lawrence, in 1838. He was educated at private schools and in the Darlington (Greersburg) and Beaver academies. He studied medicine in 1854 with Drs. Hezlep and Meigs, entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- phia, in 1860, and was graduated in March, 1863. For the fol- lowing two years he practised in Philadelphia, and in 1865 came to New Galilee, where he acquired an extensive professional business. He is now deceased.
Thomas Bryan was born in Hopewell township, Beaver County, April 6, 1797. He was the eldest of a family of nine- teen children. His early years were spent in work on the farm and in the mill, and he taught school for twelve years. At the same time he was looking toward the practice of medicine, which he began in 1830, near his birthplace. For the first twenty-five years of his practice he followed the theories of the old school, but then changed to the new school, to which he adhered until his death. His professional life covers a period of forty-seven years, and was one of eminent ability and usefulness. A son, Dr. John Bryan, is practising now at Beaver Falls.
John Smith Bryan, eldest son of James and Isabella (Miller) Bryan, was born in Hookstown, this county, March 26, 1846. He served in the Civil War as a drummer-boy, and for gallantry on the field was promoted to the rank of adjutant in the 140th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. After the war he studied medicine, practising for three years at Mexico, Mo. He died January 25, 1876.
William H. H. Chamberlin was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 22, 1810. He graduated in 1834 from the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons of New York City. The same year he came to New Brighton, where he formed a partnership with Dr. E. K. Chamberlin, which lasted eight years. He died Decem- ber 21, 1847, in New Brighton, of typhus fever.
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E. K. Chamberlin, a brother of the preceding, practised his profession in New Brighton for some years successfully. In 1842 he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and later served as a sur- geon in Taylor's army in the Mexican War. He was a great favorite with the troops, who lovingly nick-named him "Old Medicine." Afterwards he served in the Mexican Boundary Survey and as State Senator in California. During the cholera epidemic of 1834 Dr. Chamberlin was very active in the work of relief. He died in 1852 or 1853, while on his way from Pa- nama to San Francisco.
Alexander Young Coburn was a partner of Dr. Samuel Wal- lace, of Hookstown, Pa., who was a victim of the scourge known as the "Hookstown fever." After his partner's death, Dr. Coburn labored beyond his strength during the epidemic, and was himself stricken by the disease, dying in November, 1845, at twenty-five years of age.
James Cochran, another of Beaver County's early physicians, was born in Adams County, Pa., August 16, 1780, and came to what is now Darlington in 1808. He found the practice of his profession in the new country to which he had removed too hard, and went into other business, retiring about ten years be- fore his death with a moderate fortune. He was for some years a justice of the peace, and took a warm interest in Greersburg Academy and the Free Presbyterian Church of Darlington, of which he was a member, and to which he gave the ground for their church building. He died at Darlington, August 16, 1851, at seventy-one years of age.
Stephen A. Craig was born in Freedom, Pa., March 4, 1848. He began the study of medicine in 1866 and graduated in 1877. He commenced practice in Freedom, and at the breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted in Battery D, Ist Pennsylvania Light Artillery, and served one year. With his brother, W. H. Craig, an able physician, associated with him, he continued to prac- tise in Freedom for some years, when, on account of failing health, he removed to California, where he remained several years. Returning to Freedom, he died there, August 14, 1893.
J. B. Crombie was located about a year at New Sheffield, this county, when he removed to Allegheny City. There he
Zadoc Bliss.
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obtained a large and lucrative practice, which he eminently de- served. He was killed at a railroad crossing in Allegheny City in the winter of 1903.
S. P. Cummins practised his entire professional life in Indus- try, and spent his old age in Beaver, where he died.
Oliver Cunningham was, it is believed, a native of Lancaster County, Pa., and settled early in Beaver. He was previously a skiff builder in Pittsburg. He practised medicine in Beaver for many years, and was regarded as an able and conscientious physician. He is now deceased. His widow, who resided dur- ing the latter part of her life with a daughter in one of the sub- urbs of Pittsburg, died in 1902, above ninety years of age.
Smith Cunningham, a cousin of the preceding and his junior in years, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., January 10, 1804. He began his medical studies with Dr. James Speer of Pitts- burg, and after completing his course located, in 1829, in Peters- burg, Ohio. Soon after he came to Beaver, where he practised his profession for more than a third of a century. He was for a long time associated with his cousin, Dr. Oliver Cunningham, and like him attained a high rank in his profession. Dr. Cun- ningham was one of the founders of the Beaver County Medical Society, and was several times its representative in the meetings of the State Society, of which he was once president. As a citizen he was a man of great influence, and was active in all public movements. He married the eldest daughter of Judge Joseph Hemphill, and was the father of Joseph Cunningham and Oliver Cunningham, both graduates of Jefferson College, Canons- burg, Pa., in the class of 1858, the former of whom practised a number of years as an attorney at Beaver and was well known, and the latter of whom became a reputable physician, practising in Allegheny City, now deceased.
Dr. Daugherty practised medicine in Hookstown in 1845, and was very successful in dealing with the typhoid epidemic of that year.
James Dawson was born about 1805, and died in Ohioville, September 21, 1847. Ten days before his death he had a leg
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amputated and never recovered from the shock. He left a widow and six children.
Joseph H. Dickson practised some time in Rochester, Pa., when he located in Pittsburg, corner of Penn Avenue and Ninth Street. There he was associated with his brother John, and they both became eminent practitioners.
Bernard Dustin, Sr., was born in New Hampshire, March 16, 1781, and studied medicine in Utica, N. Y. He came to Beaver County in 1807, from Boston, settling at Greersburg, now Dar- lington, preceding both Dr. Henderson and Dr. Frazier in that region. He achieved considerable fame as a physician and sur- geon, had a large and paying practice, and was at the same time the "poor man's friend." Dustin was immense of body and eccentric in manner, and the country side abounded in stories characteristic of the man, many of which were not true. He was found dead in his bed, February 21, 1844, and was buried by the side of his wife in the graveyard at Little Beaver. He built the many-storied house which for seventy-five or eighty years stood on the public square at Darlington, opposite the Greersburg Academy.I Two of his sons, Bernard, Jr., and Nathaniel, became physicians. A sister, a woman of unusual accomplishments, and thoroughly educated at Boston, taught for many years a private school in the Dustin home at Darlington.
James S. Elliott was born in Trumbull County, Ohio. At- tending school at Hookstown, this county, he read medicine with the Drs. Cunningham of Beaver; and after graduation commenced the practice of his profession in Moon township, where he continued it for twenty years. In 1869 he removed to Beaver Falls, where he practised until his death, February 24, 1890.
Benjamin Feicht practised some years in Beaver as partner of Dr. David McKinney, Jr., later removing to Economy, where he died.
Joseph Frazier was one of the eminent early physicians of the county. He was of Irish birth, and obtained his medical
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education in Edinburgh, Scotland. Coming to America, he settled at Darlington, Beaver County, and formed a partner- ship with Dr. Henderson. He was a man of vigorous physique and aggressive temperament, and in a short time became one of the most noted physicians between Pittsburg and the western boundary line of the State. He perhaps taught medicine to more students than did any other physician in western Pennsyl- vania. As showing the strong hold his personality had on the people among whom he practised, many of their children were called for him. He was a daring and cruel horseman, and there were always many stories told in the community of his adven- tures with his equine forces. His practice covered a radius of twenty-five to thirty miles, and he was frequently called for consultation to the towns embraced within these limits. His only child became the wife of Dr. John Wallace, afterwards a member of Congress, who had been his student and medical partner. In the early fifties he removed to Centralia, Ill., where he died not many years ago, beyond the age of ninety. Among his medical students was Daniel Leasure, Colonel of the famous Roundhead Regiment.
Jesse Goodrich was born about 1785, and practised medicine at Hookstown from 1818 to 1828.
William H. Grim practised in Beaver Falls for a lifetime. He was a fine man and a fine doctor. His death occurred at Beaver Falls, April 29, 1896, when he was aged sixty-five years. A son, Dr. W. S. Grim, still practises in that place.
S. T. Hamilton was born at Calcutta, Ohio, February 6, 1820. He came to Georgetown, Beaver County, in 1851, where he practised medicine with marked success for forty years. He was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church, and a ruling elder from 1852 until the time of his death, which occurred Sep- tember 7, 1889.
John Hatch was born in the State of New York about the year 1780. He studied medicine in his native State, and prac- tised at Hookstown, this county, from 1816 to 1819.
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