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Of late years his practice has consisted largely of land cases. He has been counsel in many of the more important and intricate contests on titles and surveys that have come up in this section of Pennsylvania within his time at the bar. His naturally careful, mathematical, and logical mind is reinforced in this line of his profession by a practical knowledge of land surveying, and of the surveyor's method of doing the work on the ground, which art he learned from his father. His skill and accuracy as a draughts- man is attested by the map of Venango county, issued in 1857, which he compiled, and which, through all the subdivisions of original tracts, still remains the standard map of the county. Mr. Heydrick's style of speak- ing or writing is dignified, deliberate, logical, clear, and concise, yet with comprehensive fidelity to all necessary details, while his legal papers are models in both style and diction. He is recognized as a safe, conservative, and able lawyer, whose long and successful experience in his profession justly entitles him to rank among the leading attorneys of northwestern Pennsylvania.
As a citizen, Mr. Heydrick has taken an active interest in many of the local enterprises, such as in procuring the construction of the Franklin branch of the Atlantic and Great Western railroad (now New York, Penn- sylvania and Ohio), from Meadville, the Allegheny bridge, the Venango Water Works, and the turnpike to Oil City. Though ardently devoted to his pro- fession, he has always given his time and talents toward inculcating and defending the principles of the Democratic party, and in 1878 he was the Democratic nominee of this judicial district for the president judgeship.
On the 20th of June, 1860, Mr. Heydrick married Frances Helen, eldest daughter of the late Judge Richard Irwin of Franklin, who has blessed him with five children: Carl I., lawyer of Franklin; Harriet; Frederick P. ; Eva (deceased), and Helen. The family are adherents to the Presbyterian church, to which denomination the ancestry belonged.
Theodore Spencer of Enterprise, Warren county, Pennsylvania, was admitted to the Venango bar January 18, 1855. As a lawyer he was quiet, unpretentious, very accurate in the preparation of legal papers, and in the presentation of cases was remarkably clear and explicit. He subsequently returned to Warren, where he continued to practice until defective hearing compelled him to abandon the profession.
John Daily came to Franklin in boyhood. He was a printer by trade, but afterward studied law, was admitted to the bar April 26, 1859, and did a small business for several years thereafter. He was also justice of the peace many years, and died in Franklin.
S. C. T. Dodd, one of the ablest lawyers of the Venango bar during his
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connection with it, was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1836, son of Levi Dodd, an early settler of that place. He learned the printing trade, graduated at Jefferson College in 1857, studied law with James K. Kerr, of Franklin, and was admitted to the bar August 31, 1859. In his practice of nearly twenty-two years in the courts of the district and ad- joining counties he stood in the front rank of his profession. Possessing extensive literary acquirements, a fine analytical mind, and a well grounded knowledge of the most important branches of legal science, he soon won a conspicuous position among the successful jurists of western Pennsylvania. His selection by the Standard Oil Trust as its general solicitor was a marked recognition of his superior abilities as a lawyer. Mr. Dodd was selected in 1872 as one of the Democratic members at large to serve in the constitutional convention, and took quite a prominent part in the delibera- tions and work of that body. During his residence in Franklin he built up an extensive legal business, and enjoyed in a large degree the esteem and confidence of his professional brethren, as well as of the whole commun- ity. Politically he is a Democrat, and has always taken an active interest in the political battles of the state and nation. He removed to New York in January, 1881, and has since filled the prominent and lucrative position of general solicitor of the Standard Oil Trust.
Calvin W. Gilfillan, though not engaged in active practice for the past sixteen years, is one of the older surviving members of this bar. He is a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and a descendant of one of its best known pioneer families. He read law with William Stewart, of Mercer, and was admitted to the Mercer bar in November, 1859. In the meantime he filled the office of superintendent of schools of his native county, and that of transcribing clerk in the Pennsylvania house of representatives. Imme- diately after his admission he located in Franklin, and soon built up a good practice. In 1862 he formed a partnership with Charles E. Taylor, which existed five years. The firm of Taylor & Gilfillan was recognized as one of the ablest legal firms in the county. In 1861 Mr. Gilfillan was appointed district attorney, and elected to the same office in 1862. In 1868 he was the choice of the Republican party for congress, and was elected by a hand- some majority. From 1867 to 1873 he continued in practice alone, and in the latter year gave up the active duties of his profession to accept the pres- idency of the Lamberton Savings Bank, which position he has ever since oc- cupied.
The great oil excitement extending over the principal part of the decade ending in 1870 brought to this county a large number of lawyers of whom only a brief mention can be attempted. Some of them located at Franklin, others at Oil City and the various towns that flourished in this region at. that period. Among this number were George R. Snowden, a native of the county, admitted to practice April 30, 1862, now a resident of Philadelphia
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and brigadier general of the National Guard of Pennsylvania; David Ster- ritt, from Mifflin county, was admitted in November, 1864; William J. Gal- breath, admitted November 28, 1864, located at Oil City; Major James M. Bredin, of Butler county, also admitted November 28, 1864, practiced in Franklin until his death; William H. James, of Philadelphia, admitted in 1865, was subsequently elected district attorney; J. D. McJunkin, admitted in January, 1865, was afterward a member of the legislature from this county and is now a resident of Butler; James H. Smith came from New York in February, 1865, and was elected district attorney in 1871; C. W. Smith came from Pittsburgh in April, 1865; John M. Bonham, from York county, admitted to the bar of this county in July, 1865, is now a resident of Washington city, and widely known as the author of " Industrial Liberty;" E. L. Keenan was admitted in January, 1866; William Carroll came to Franklin in March, 1866; Roger Sherman, from Erie, was admitted to this bar in February, 1867, and practiced at Pithole and Pleasantville; M. C. Beebe, of Pleasantville, was admitted to practice in March, 1868, and successively county superintendent of public schools, member of the legislature, and of the constitutional con- vention of 1873; N. B. Smiley, a native of Franklin, a printer by trade, and editor of the Citizen from 1864 to 1867, was admitted to the bar in April, 1869, but removed to Bradford several years later, and at the time of his death was regarded as one of the leading members of the McKean county bar.
The following are the names of the attorneys in active practice at Frank- lin at the present time, with the respective dates of admission to the bar of this county: Robert S. McCormick, August 27, 1845; S. P. McCalmont, No- vember 25, 1847; C. Heydrick, January 27, 1854; Charles E. Taylor, April 27, 1858; Samuel B. Myers, April 26, 1859; J. D. Hancock, January 24, 1865; W. C. Rheem, April 24, 1865; J. H. Osmer, August 28, 1865; Charles W. Mackey, August 28, 1865; T. J .. McKean, April 27, 1866; J. D. Chad- wick, April 8, 1867; James W. Lee, April 26, 1869; R. W. Dunn, June 7, 1869; D. A. Hays, June 2, 1873; George S. Criswell, September 30, 1875; Thomas McGough, July 11, 1876; C. A. Myers, August 27, 1877; Robert F. Glenn, May 13, 1878; E. H. Lamberton, April 21, 1879; J. S. Carmichael, April 28, 1881; Edward Trainor, May 9, 1881; B. H. Osborn, August 26, 1881; Robert McCalmont, December 5, 1881; William H. Forbes, April 23, 1883; William J. Breene, December 10, 1883; E. E. Hughes. April 26, 1886; F. L. Kahle, August 23, 1886; Carl I. Heydrick, August 23, 1886; J. O. McCalmont, April 25, 1887; John K. Crawford, March 29, 1888; Lawrence P. Hancock, F. A. Sayers, and W. D. Doyle, August 26, 1889.
The following residents of Franklin, admitted to the bar at the dates indicated, are not now engaged in the active duties of the profession: N. R. Bushnell, 1843; Samuel Plumer, July 7, 1852; Calvin W. Gilfillan, Novem- ber 30, 1859; R. L. Cochran, November 25, 1862, and R. G. Lamberton, September 12, 1870.
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The attorneys residing at Oil City are Isaac Ash, admitted to the bar of Venango county, November 28, 1864; H. C. Graham, December 1, 1864; J. B. McAllister, April 24, 1865; William McNair, April 24, 1865; F. W. Hays, October 10, 1870; Luman Stephens, November 28, 1870; H. D. Han- cock, March 29, 1872; Henry McSweendy, April 24, 1876; W. J. Hulings, March 8, 1877; Martin Carey, August 27, 1883; H. W. Fisher, August 27, 1883; J. L. Dorworth, August 25, 1884; T. F. Ritchey, October 17, 1887; J. L. Mattox, R. M. Speer, and Joseph McSweeney, August 26, 1889.
In addition to those mentioned, the following attorneys were members of the Venango bar, and some of them practiced in this county several years before their death or removal therefrom: T. R. Ridgway, admitted in Feb- ruary, 1847; Sidney McGuire, March, 1848; James Knox, August, 1853; T. B. Hoover, December, 1859; Charles F. Hasson (Oil City), August, 1861; E. Ferero, Oil City, April, 1864; Archibald Bleakley, August, 1864; S. P. Irwin, November, 1864; F. E. Felton, December, 1864; H. P. Montgom- ery, December, 1864; Isaac Myers, Jr., January, 1865; W. S. Crawford, January, 1865; H. C. Johns (Pithole), January, 1865; W. T. Bell, Janu- ary, 1865; Henry G. Smith, April, 1865; A. G. Rice, April, 1865; Mal- colm Hay, afterward assistant postmaster general, April, 1865; James Flynn (Rouseville), April, 1865; William Bleakley, August, 1865; George S. Daugherty, August, 1865; William R. Dickerson, August, 1865; W. V. Perrine, August, 1865; T. S. Zuver (Oil City), August, 1865; C. S. An- drews, September, 1865; J. G. Elliott (Petroleum Center), November, 1865; T. C. Spencer, January, 1865; G. W. Andrews, January, 1866; C. O. Bowman, January, 1866; H. T. Beardsley, November, 1866; F. W. Hast- ings, December, 1866; Jacob A. Vroman, Samuel D. Irwin, January, 1867; H. B. Plumer, April, 1867; Henry A. Miller, April, 1867; John P. Park, March, 1868; W. T. Graham, April, 1868; Frederick L. Seely, April, 1868; R. Mackwood, April, 1868; John McKissick, September, 1868; John McC. Miller, December, 1868; G. B. McCalmont, January, 1869; M. D. Christy (Oil City), March, 1869; S. P. Newell, April, 1869; William A. Given (Rouseville), April, 1869; N. H. McCormick, March, 1870; James H. Donly, May, 1870; A. W. Covell, October, 1870; J. H. Bowman, January, 1871; J. C. Boyce (Oil City), April, 1872; Henry A. Strong, December, 1872; Samuel P. Brigham, April, 1873; S. S. Avery, May, 1873; W. N. Miles, March, 1874; William M. Francis, March, 1874; J. W. Osborn, April, 1874; William A. Selby, April, 1875; John T. Selby, May, 1875; T. A. Morrison, November, 1875; Heber Donaldson, John K. Wilson, July, 1876; Jacob O'Dell, James W. Shaw, August, 1876; C. L. Poor, September, 1876; N. P. Bryden, March, 1877; W. W. Dale, August, 1877; E. L. Davis, Novem- ber, 1877; E. S. McCalmont, August, 1880; L. R. Freeman, September 27, 1880; Wilmot Heard, August 27, 1883; C. W. Benedict, August 25, 1884; E. E. Smith, December 8, 1884.
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CHAPTER XIV.
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
UNINVITING CHARACTER OF VENANGO COUNTY AS A FIELD FOR THE LABORS OF PROFESSIONAL PHYSICIANS AT AN EARLY DATE-PIONEER DOCTORS AT FRANKLIN AND THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY-MEDICAL SOCIETIES-ROSTER OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. #
V ENANGO COUNTY does not seem to have been an encouraging field for the labors of professional physicians during the first decade of its history. A hardy race of people, inured to exposure and privation, and entirely unacquainted with the luxuries which foster a large proportion of the diseases incident to the usual manner of living in older and more wealthy communities, composed its early population. In the long category of human ills, there are very few likely to afflict a people with whom the principal articles of food were wheat flour, corn meal, and wild meats, who were generally engaged in manual labor of the severest kind, and enjoyed the added advantage of living in an exceptionally healthful locality. Trifling ailments and even serious illness were treated with prescriptions from the domestic pharmacopia; the prompt application of such remedies, guided by experience, common sense, and self-reliance, generally succeeded very well. Much as "grandmothers' remedies"-nauseous decoctions of herbs that were cultivated in the garden for the purpose, and whose virtues were a traditional heritage from mother to daughter; preparations compounded from the bark and roots of trees, or from drugs that could be obtained at the country store-have been ridiculed, their efficiency on many occasions can not be questioned. Professional physicians were not the less desirable, however, and the first demand for the services of a knight of the lancet and pill bag met with a prompt response.
The following interesting particulars regarding the practitioners who "blazed the way" for the succession of gentlemen who have since graced the ranks of the profession is given in the language of Doctor Eaton:
The first to hang out his sign was T. G. Symonds. Whence he came no one now knows, and what was the character of his work is equally ohscure. He located here about the close of the last century, and probably did not remain long. There must have been an interregnum after his departure, as Mrs. Irvine testifies that when any one was sick, very sick, after she arrived, which was in 1800, a physician was called from Meadville. This meant a long, weary ride over a rough road, on horseback, and a return in the same way.
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The next doctor was Thomas Smith. He is said to have been a skillful physician,. but an eccentric man. He was slow of speech, and somewhat credulous, to his own injury at times. On one occasion a young man had captured a porcupine and brought it to Doctor Smith as a present. The doctor was delighted with the pet and proposed to keep it as a curiosity, and shut it up in his office over night, until he could arrange- suitable quarters for it.
In those days every doctor kept a minature drug store, so as to be able to furnish the medicine his patients might require. On coming to his office in the morning the naturalist was greatly horrified at finding that his porcupine had climbed upon the shelves and knocked down almost every jar and bottle and tumbled them on the floor, in one general scene of ruin. Drugs that agreed and disagreed with each other were mingled together. Solids and fluids were combined, as no doctor has ever combined them. Probably the porcupine smiled to see the ruin he had wrought, but the smile was premature. The doctor was excited to very great wrath, and indulged in indis- creet language, and finished by shooting the cause of his trouble.
Peter Faulkner came to Franklin in 1820, but moved to Woodstock, Crawford county, within a brief period. The scope of his professional labors still embraced the northern part of the county, however, and his ap- pearance on horseback with the stout leather saddle-bags and old fashioned riding accoutrements of that day was familiar throughout the northwestern counties. He was quite successful, both as surgeon and practitioner. He died at Erie January 13, 1876, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.
George R. Espy also located at Franklin in 1820. He was born Feb- ruary 21, 1796. His academic education was obtained at Bedford, Penn- sylvania, and his professional training under the tutorship of Doctor Peter Allen, of Knisman, Ohio. He bore an excellent reputation as a physician and enjoyed great personal popularity. In 1827 he was elected to the legis- lature from the counties of Crawford and Venango, and from that date was. a prominent factor in the political affairs of the county, rising to the posi- tion of auditor general of the state under Governor Porter. In 1831 he re- tired from practice; in the winter of 1845-46 he removed to Fort Madison, Iowa, where he was engaged in milling and merchandising until his death, February 21, 1849.
Several physicians located at Franklin temporarily at a comparatively early period, among whom were Doctors Gilfillan, J. Dowling, John D. Wood, and J. Bascom. Doctor Wood was popular as a physician and fairly successful in his practice. After his departure from this place he went down the Mississippi, and nothing regarding his future career is known. Doctor Bascom succeeded to Doctor Espy's practice in 1831. He came with high recommendations from the medical societies of New York and Ohio and remained several years.
Nathaniel Duffield Snowden began his professional career in this county in 1828 at Emlenton; two years later he removed to the county seat, thence- forth his residence to the close of his life. He was born at Harrisburg No- vember 28, 1803, son of Reverend Nathaniel Randolph and Sarah (Gustine)
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Snowden, the former descended from a family that settled at Barnstable, Massachusetts, in 1630, the latter a daughter of Doctor Lemuel Gustine, a surgeon in the American army during the Revolution. He acquired a classical education at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during the incumbency of his father as president of that institution, and after a course of preliminary study with his brother, Doctor Isaac Snowden of Thompson- town, Pennsylvania, attended the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. From the time that his practice began until failing health compelled him to relinquish its active duties he was assiduous and untiring in his devotion to its pursuit. Equally skilled. as a physician and a surgeon there were few emergencies to which he was not equal. Gentle in manners and by na- ture tender and sympathetic, few men more readily gained the confidence of the afflicted. In those days the practitioner drove or rode long distances in the country and was frequently asked in consultation to undertake a jour- ney of twenty or thirty miles. With conscientious devotion to his calling and unfeigned sympathy for sorrow or distress in every form he cheerfully responded to demands for his services, often answering a summons when he was more in need of rest and medical attention than his patient. A man of studious habits, he was familiar with the literature of his profession and well informed as to its progress.
Long before an apothecary was located at Franklin he was obliged at times to prepare his own drugs, and often gave both medicine and advice to the needy and destitute. Liberally educated himself he was active in promoting all local educational interests, serving frequently as trustee of the academy and school director. Repeatedly honored by his fellow citizens by election to places of trust, he was coroner of the county from 1844 to 1847, and register and recorder from 1857 to 1860. He was married on the 27th of April, 1833, to Jane, daughter of George McClelland; their children were Samuel Gustine, who succeeded to the practice of his father; George Randolph, of Philadelphia, brigadier general of the First brigade, National Guard of Pennsylvania, who served in the civil war as captain in the One Hundred and Forty-Second Pennsylvania Volunteers; and Jane Bredin, deceased wife of James Woodburn, of Franklin. Doctor Snowden died September 30, 1864, in the sixty-first year of his age, and in full com- munion with the Presbyterian church.
Buckland Gillett was born in Schoharie county, New York, September 18, 1807. His parents were natives of Connecticut, who emigrated to Schoharie county, and thence to Fredonia, Chautauqua county, New York. He received a good education at the Fredonia Academy, and in 1824 began his medical studies with Doctor S. White. After a four years' course he was admitted to an examination by the censors of the Chautauqua County Medi- cal Society, and licensed to practice medicine and surgery in conformity with the law then in force in the state of New York. In 1829 he began
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practice at Titusville, but in May, 1834, moved to Franklin, where he made his home and continued in the active practice of his profession nearly half a century. In 1847 he matriculated and attended lectures at Harvard Uni- versity, and subsequently the honorary degree of M. D. was conferred upon him by the University of Wooster at Cleveland, Ohio. He assisted in the organization of the Venango County Medical Society, of which he was the first president. He was also a member of the State Medical Society and one of its vice-presidents; a member of the American Medical Association, and an honorary member of the California State Medical Society. April 30, 1832, he married Sarah, daughter of Ebenezer Byles of Allegheny township; she is still living (1889) at the age of seventy-seven. They had one child, Annette, wife of R. L. Cochran. Doctor Gillett died October 19, 1881. In noting his death the Venango Spectator pays the following just tribute to his memory :
His name was familiar to our whole people. To the ability of a skilled physi- cian, he added the soothing care and kindness of a friend. In his medical career he was eminently successful, and perhaps no man in his profession ever gained to a greater extent the love and gratitude of those to whose ailments he was a healing messenger. Educated in the strictly orthodox school of medical science, he was a student throughout his long life, and neglected nothing necessary to keep himself abreast of the improvements and discoveries that time had made in his art. He was a man of sterling knowledge outside of his profession and would have made his mark in lines entirely distinct from his calling. But it was as the gentle, kind, and skillful physician that our people hest knew him, and as such he will long be remembered in many a household. No man had more or truer friends, and no man hetter deserved them.
George W. Connely read medicine with Doctor Espy, and practiced at Franklin several years. He was born in Allegheny township September 3, 1804, son of Isaac Connely, a pioneer in that part of the county. He had a collegiate education, was a member of the Methodist church, and a Demo- crat. He retired from the profession to become clerk to the county com- missioners, a position which he held many years. He was elected prothono- tary in 1842 and served until 1848. September 14, 1826, he was married to Margaret Lowry, of Meadville, Pennsylvania, to whom three sons and one daughter were born: James L., of Philadelphia; Espy, of Franklin; Isaac, of Pleasantville, and Mrs. B. W. Bredin, of Franklin. His death occurred January 13, 1851.
Samuel Gustine Snowden, eldest son of Doctor Nathaniel Duffield Snow- den, was born at Franklin, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1837. He obtained his early education at the public and private schools of that place, and sub- sequently took a three years' course of study under the Reverend William White, D. D., LL. D., rector of the Episcopal church of Butler and princi- pal of the Butler Academy. This included in addition to the usual academic studies a full collegiate course in Greek and Latin. Doctor Snowden came
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of a family of physicians. His father and three of his father's brothers were physicians, as also were his great-grandfather, Samuel Gustine, and his great-great-grandfather, William Hooker Smith, the two last mentioned well known among the Wyoming patriots and sufferers in the early history of Pennsylvania. In boyhood he had chosen his profession, and spent many hours in his father's office, under his supervision, studying the elementary principles of medical science at an age when most boys spend their leisure time upon the playground. After returning from Butler he read medicine regularly with his father, and before he was twenty years of age assisted him in his large practice.
In October, 1857, he matriculated at the Philadelphia College of Medi- cine, an excellent institution numbering among its professors at that time D. Hays Agnew and Henry Hartshorne. But the withdrawal of southern patronage during the late war so reduced its numbers that it was finally merged in the University of Pennsylvania, thus leaving the doctor without an alma mater. He graduated March 3, 1859, receiving his diploma soon after his twenty-first birthday. He established himself permanently at Franklin and continued in the active duties of an extensive practice until 1883, when failing health compelled him to relinquish professional work. Early in that year he spent several months in Philadelphia, hoping that rest might restore him to health. In June he returned to Franklin no better, and the rest of the summer was spent at Waterford, the early home of his wife. On Christmas day, accompanied by her, he bade adieu to Franklin and went to Asheville, North Carolina, hoping against his better judgment that the bracing mountain air of that place might prove beneficial; but it was of no avail, and on the 22nd of August, 1884, in the presence of his wife and only brother, he passed quietly away. His remains were brought to Franklin and interred in the cemetery there.
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