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In 1873, Dr. Eliphaz C. Bigelow, another nephew of the first Eliphaz Bigelow, located there and remained to the time of his death, in 1882. In the fall of 1882 came Dr. Brown .1. Bigelow, son of the first Dr. Eliphaz Bigelow, who is a practicing physician at Belleville at the present time (1885).
M. T. Mireneen, M.D., graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Penn- sylvania in the month of March, 1840. He came to Milroy and began the practice of medi- eine in 1840. Hle remained there until the time of his death, which was in March, 1860.
Dr. JOHN C. RHEAM (Thompsonian) prac- tieed medicine in Upper Milroy for several years. Hle was there in November, 18 16, and moved some the afterward to Pleasant Gap, in C'entre County, where he established a Thomp- sonian resort.
DR. SAMUEL SMITH, studied medicine nuder
Dr. Joseph B. Ard, and began practice in Lewis- town about 1840. After continuing a few years, he removed to Pittsburgh, where he died about 1883.
DR. EMIAS W. HLALES, studied nuder the instructions of Dr. Joseph B. Ard. Practiced in Lewistown a few years, and removed to near Reedsville. About 1865 he moved to Belle- fonte, where he still resides.
DR. RixHond, a German physician of the homeopathie school, came to this country about 1840. After a time he settled in Juniata County, the first of the school to settle in the county. He remained there several years, and then moved to Lewistown. After practicing a few years at the latter place, he finally removed to Williams- port, where, after practicing many years, he died.
DES. SEVERUS and ALBERT S. CUMMINGS, came to Lewistown from Middleburg, Union County (now Snyder), about 1848. Severus practiced till his death by an accident, October 29, 1863. Dr. Albert moved to Sunbury a year or so before his brother's death, but after the accident returned to Lewistown, remained about a year and finally settled at Sunbury.
In 1849, DR. J. A. SWARTz, a son of Dr. Frank Swartz, of Lewistown, studied medicine with his father and began practice in his native town. After he graduated at Jefferson Medi- cal College, Philadelphia, he became a resident of Mc Veytown, where he continued his practice until 1884. He is now in one of the depart- ments at Washington, D. C.
DR. J. B. MITCHELL, practiced at Lewistown in 1850. He also conducted a drug-store.
DR. A. W. MASS, a native of Juniata County, came to Lewistown, and studied with Dr. Joseph Ard. Having graduated at Phila- delphia, he began practice in Lewistown in 1851. Ilere he remained six years, when he removed to Philadelphia.
DR. GEORGE HOOVER, Studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. Lewis Hoover, and graduated at the Medical College of Philadelphia about 1855. Hle settled at Lewistown, where he practiced until his death, in February, 1875.
DR. DAVID D. MAHON settled in Newton Hamilton in 1861, soon after Dr. Chas. Bower
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joined the army. Ile practiced until 1865, when he was succeeded by his son, Dr. J. T. Mahon, who is still in practice.
JOHN 1. MARKS, M.D., was born in Lewis- town on the 9th day of April, 1826. He re- wived his primary and preparatory education at the Lewistown Academy and at Tuscarora Academy, in JJuniata County. He graduated at Jefferson College, in Cannonsburg, Pa., in June, 1816. Ile read medicine with Thomas Van- valzah, M.D., and T. A. Worrall, M.D., both of Lewistown. He graduated at the Pennsyl- vania Hospital January 6, 1855. He prac- tired medicine, first, in Lewistown two years, second, in Lockhaven two years ; he then re- turned to Lewistown and practiced medicine in that place until he moved to Milroy, where he practiced medicine two years. The Civil War then commenced and he went to the army with the three months' men as a surgeon in the Seventy-eighth Regiment. When the three months had expired he came home and re- mained a short time. He again returned to the army in 1864, and was assigned to the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Afterwards he was assigned to the Seventy-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Vol- uuteers. Owing to ill health he came home and remained there until he recovered ; he then went back to the army and was assigned to the Eighteenth Regiment of Pennsylvania Cav- alry as surgeon. This was about three months before the close of the war. He became severely sick and was compelled to leave the army for home. After his recovery he again resumed the practice of medicine, and continued to practice in Lewistown nutit the time of his death. Hle died Jannary 12, 1882. During the last two years of his life he was too frail to practice.
SAMUEL LEWIS ALEXANDER, M.D., was born in Armagh township, Mifflin County, Angust 15, 1831. In 1838 his parents moved to Penn's Valley, in Centre County, where he received a liberal free-school education. Iu 185t he entered Dickinson Seminary, in Wil- liamsport, Pa,, where he remained until the California gold fever of 1852, then at its height, took possession of his boyish faney, and, in company with several friends, he took the
"overland route " to the then far-away land of gold. He remained in California, working in the gold-mines and merchandising, for three years, when he thought his dreams of wealth had been sufficiently realized to warrant a re- turn to his home in the East. He consequently sailed from San Francisco, intending to come by the way of Cape Horn, but was ouly out twenty- four hours when the steamer upon which he had taken pas-age was wrecked by running on a bar, and many of the passengers were lost in the ocean. He was picked up by a vessel and taken back to San Francisco, stripped of all the wealth he had accumulated during his three years' toil on the Pacific coast. After his re- turn home he read medicine with J. P. Wilson, then a distinguished physician of Centre Comty. In 1857 he entered the Jefferson Medical C'ol- lege of Philadelphia, and graduated at that in- stitution in 1859. He married Miss Mary Louise Noblet, of Philadelphia, and located at Milroy, in Mifflin County. He there began to practice medicine, and soon acquired a large and Incrative practice. The Civil War then broke ont in all its fury, and the call- of his country aroused his patriotism to such an extent that in July, 1861, he entered the army as first assistant surgeon, and was assigned to the First Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Cavalry (Forty-fourth Regiment). On Novem- ber 25th his regiment was detailed to capture some rebels then at Drainsville, Va., and on their return to headquarters he was shot by a rebel hid in ambush. The orderly sergeant (William Wagner), who was with him at the time, held him on his horse until they reached a farm-house, a short distance farther on their way, where they stopped only long enough to got a conveyance, upon which the doctor was placed and taken to camp. They arrived at camp in the after-part of the night or carly in the morning. He breathed his last soon after- ward. He died November 27, 1861.
ISAAC P. NEEE, M.D., was born in Penn's Valley, Centre County, January 23, 1833, abont two miles west of where Centre Hall now stands. He attended school at Dickinson Sem- inary, in Williamsport, and at Pennsylvania College, iu Centre County. He read medicine
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with his brother, Peter D. Neff, M.D., in 1857 and 1858; gradnated at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in March, 1859, after attending two full courses of lectures. He com- meneed the practice of medicine at Nittany Hall in April, 1859, and on the 27th of the fol- lowing May he moved to the lower end of Penn's Valley, and practiced medicine in Aaronsburg and vicinity until September, 1865, when he relinquished the practice and entered upon the study of theology. In October, 1866, he moved to Milroy, in Mifflin County, and there resumed the practice of medicine, and continued in the same until March, 1868. At that time he received and accepted a call from the Evangelical Intheran pastorate of Liberty Valley, in Tioga County, Pa. He married there, and has been in the active work of the ministry ever since.
F. S. KOHLER, M.D., was born at Milroy, Mifflin County, December 18, 1836. Ile re- ceived his primary education in the common schools of that place. He engaged in the busi- ness of elerking at various places, viz. : Centre Hall, Bellefonte and Lewistown, at which latter place he studied Latin and the higher mathemat- ies under the private tutor hip of Professor I. J. Stine, with a view of preparing himself for the study of law. In 1857 he went to Phila- delphia, and there became acquainted with a number of medical students, who turned his at- tention from the law to medicine. He then studied medicine and graduated from the Eelec- tie College in 1860. . Hle located at Reedsville and engaged in the practice of medicine, and entered the army as assistant surgeon of the Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry in February, 1865, and was discharged in August of the same year, when the war closed. He again resumed the practice of medicine in Reedsville, and con- timted there until the fall of 1872. In the mean time the college at which he had graduated met with reverses, and was finally disbanded. Not wishing to incur the ostracism of his professional brethren, as an ahummus of a defimet medical college, in the fall of 1872 he entered the Med- ical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, and gradu- ated with the class in March, 1873. He then located at Vevay, in Indiana. That region
being malarial, he practiced there several years, when he discovered that his health began to fail. In 1880 he sought the Rocky Mountains and located at Morgan City, in Utah, where he established a medical school, and is now en- gaged in practicing and teaching medicine.
CHARLES S. HonBur, M.D., is descended from English stock, the earliest representatives of the family having, on their emigration, settled in Connecticut, from whence a branch removed and located in the Wyoming Valley, Pa. In the line of descent from the latter was Chris- topher, grandfather of Dr. Hurlbut, who re- sided in Steuben County, N. Y. His children were James, Christopher, John and several danghters. John, whose birth occurred in the Wyoming Valley, when a youth removed to New York State, where he married Priscilla, dinighter of William Sharp, of Staten Island, N. Y. Their children are Edward, William, John, Charles S., Elizabeth (wife of Rev. Mr. Woodcock), Abigail, Mary (wife of Rev. T. M. Hodgman) and Martha. Charles S. Hurlbut was born February 9, 1826, in Steuben County, N. Y., where the early years of his life were spent. He received a classical education at the Alfred University, located at Alfred Centre, Allegany County, N. Y., and choosing the profession of medicine as that most congenial to his tastes, began his studies with Dr. Dimmick, of Burns, Allegany County, N. Y., afterward concluding them with Dr. W. S. Babbitt, of Olean, N. Y., and graduating from the Univer- sity of Buffalo, at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1852. Im- mediately after he accepted a partnership with his preceptor, Dr. Babbitt, at Olean, and con- tinued this association for several years, ulti- mately controlling the practice on the removal of the latter to Lockport, N. Y. Being espe- cially interested in surgery, most of the surgical enses in the vicinity came inder his direction, which, together with an extensive general prae- tice, rendered his labors both arduous and responsible. Here he remained until 1867, when Lewistown offered an attractive field, and has since been his home, as also the scene of sue- cesstil professional labor until the present time. Dr. Ilurlbut is a member of the Mifflin County Medical Society and of the Juniata Valley
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Medical Society, in both of which he manifests an active interest. A Republican in his political sympathies, he is not a partisan, and has in- variably declined all proffers of office. His re- ligions creed is in harmony with that of the Presbyterian Church, of which he is a member. The doctor was, on the 15th of October, 1868, married to Mary C., only daughter of Arthur B. and Anna Eliza Long, of Lewistown.
G. N. HAROY, M.D., graduated in the Inn- garian University, in Hungary. After practic- ing medicine in Lewistown and Lilleyville, in Mifflin County, he moved to Siglerville, in Armagh township, in the month of September, 1859. He continued to practice medicine in that place until Angust, 1862. He then moved to Iluron County, in the State of Ohio, where he still remains in the practice of his profession.
DR. THOMAS C. THOMAS (celectie) came to Milroy from somewhere in the neighborhood of Pine Grove, in Centre County, some time in 1862, and practiced medicine in that place until some time in 1865. Ile then moved away.
SOLOMON F. WEHR, M.D., was born in I'nion County, Pa., near New Berlin. At- tended lectures in Philadelphia at a medical college in Spruce Street. He practiced medi- cine in Madisonburg, in Centre County, and came to Milroy in the spring of 1863, and practiced medicine until the 1st day of April, 1866, at which time he moved from Milroy.
ABRAHAM HARSHBARGER, M.D., was born in Potter township, Centre County, on the 12th day of December, 1810. He read med- ieine with T. A. Worrall, M. D., in Lewistown, Mifflin County, in 1841 and 1842. Ile com- pleted his course of medical studies with William 1. Wilson, M.D., of Centre County, Pa., in 1812. Graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, in the month of March, 1511, and began practice in MeAlisterville, Juniata County, and continued there until abont 1856, when he moved to Port Royal and prac- tired until September, 1861, when he enlisted as captain of Company I, of the Forty-ninth Regi- ment. Ile was commissioned as assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers Angust 2, 1862; was promoted to surgeon of the One
Ihmdred and Sixty-sixth Regiment of Pennsyl- vania Volunteers December 5, 1862. After that regiment was mustered out he was trans- forred to the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers November 9, 1863. Ile served in that regiment until it was mustered ont, the 24th day of June, 1865, being at the close of the war. He was in the army from September, 1861, to June 24, 1865. Hle came to Milroy on the 4th day of September, 1865, and still continues to practice medicine in that place.
DR. A. II. SHAEFFER was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1867, at the age of twenty-seven. Practiced in Belleville until the fall of 1873, when he removed to Lewis- town, where he still resides engaged in active practice.
DR. Cox, in 1869, settled at Lewistown, and commeneed practice as a homoeopathist. He moved away in 1871.
DR. M. B. GARVER studied medicine with Dr. D. C. Smith, and graduated at Hahnemann College, Cleveland, in 1871. Located at New Holland, Lancaster County ; then moved to Thompsontown, Juniata County. In 1880 he removed to Belleville, in Union township, where he still resides.
DR. WILLIAM F. SPETIT, a native of Ger- many, and a graduate of Hesse Darmstadt, came to this country, and was an intimate friend of Dr. Herring and other leaders of the homeopathie school. He settled for several years in Pottsville, and upon the retirement of Dr. Cox was persuaded to come to Lewistown, where he remained until his death, in June, 1881, being over sixty years of age.
M. BONNER FLYNN, M.D., was born in New York City, N. Y., January 13, 1843. He attended the Cumberland Valley Institute, in Mechanicsburg, Pa., in 1852 and 1853. He afterward attended St. John's College, in Frederick City, Md., in 1857 and 1859. He commenced the study of medicine in 1860, and graduated first at Bellevue Col- lege, in New York City, in 1862; then, second, he graduated at the New York Hygeo- Therapeutic College on March 29, 1865. Ile entered the United States service of the late
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Rebellion in 1862. He practiced medicine in Jersey City from 1865 to 1867 ; in Worcester, Mass., from 1867 to 1872. HTe located at Reedsville in August, 1871, and removed to Lewistown in March, 1882.
ALEXANDER SAMUEL HARSHBARGER, M.D., son of Abraham Harshbarger, M.D., was born in MeAlisterville, "in Amiata County, Pa., Jannary 6, 1850 ; graduated at the Airyview Academy, in Port Royal, Juniata County, in 1867. Ile read medicine with his father in Milroy, Mifflin County, in 1868 and 1869. Hle graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in March, 1870, and practiced medicine from that date with his father, in Milroy, to August, 1884. He then moved to Lewistown, where he still continues in the practice of his profession.
WALTER II. PARCELS, M.D., was born in Allegany County, in the State of New York. He read medicine with Drs. Allen and Noble. of Oberlin, in the State of Ohio. He attended his first course of medical lectures at Cleveland Medical College in 1870, and practiced medi- cine irregularly, but continued medical studies until the winter of 1872 and 1873, when he graduated at the Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio. He located in Reedsville, Mifflin County, Pa., where he remained a year and a half, and moved to Toledo. In 1876 he came to Lewistown and began a practice, which he continnes.
BROWN A. BiceLow, M.D., was born in Belleville, Mifflin County, September 25, 1850. Hle is the youngest son of Dr. Eliphaz Bigelow, who came to Milllin County in 1829. Three of his sons became physicians. Dr. Eliphas moved from Belleville to Huntingdon County in 1855. From this place Brown A. Bigelow attended school, one term, at the Kishacoquillas Seminary, in 1861. He also attended school one term at Me Alevey's Fort, under Professor Austin. Ile began the study of medicine, under Dr. James II. Bigelow, in 1871, and entered the Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, in October, 1872, and graduated at that place on the 11th day of March, 1871. He then practiced medicine with Dr. James II. Bigelow, two years, at MeAlevey's Fort, and in March,
1876, he moved to Siglerville and practiced medicine in that place until December 14, 1882, when he moved to Belleville, where he still re- mains in the practice of his profession.
DR. D. C. DEAx, a native of Saville town- ship, Perry Comty, studied medicine with Dr. II. O. Orris, of Newport. In 1877, he graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and practiced in Perry County until November, 1881, when he moved to Lewistown, where he is now in practice
DR. W. S. WILSON settled at Me Veytown in 1881.
DR. D. C. SMITH, a native of Thompson- town, Juniata County, graduated a homeopa- thist in 1869. ITe settled at Mifflin and in 1882 removed to Lewistown, where he still con tinnes in practice.
Dr. D. NIPPLE began practice in 1882, at Newton Hamilton, where he still resides.
De. B. Book, a student of Dr. D. C. Smith and a graduate of the Homeopathie College, Philadelphia, settled at Lewistown April, 1884, where he is still in practice.
DR. R. M. Jouxsox is a practicing physi- cian at Me Veytown, having located there in 1884.
WOODS STERRETT, M.D., was born in the east end of Kishacoquillas Valley, at what is How MeAnley's Mill, February 11, 1852. He received his education at Airyview Academy, in Juniata County, Pa., in 1872. Ile read medicine with Samuel Malay, M.D., in Mil- roy, beginning in 1873 and ending in 1877. He graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, March 12, 1877, and began the practice of medicine at Yeagertown, in Milllin County, on the 9th day of April, 1877. He left Yeager- town in April, 1879, and began to practice medi- cine in Port Royal, in JJuniata County, immedi- ately afterward. He left Port Royal in Sep- tember, 1882, and went to Milroy, where he still continues to practice medicine with Sammel Maclay, M.D.
GEORGE P. RismEL, M.D., was born in Centre County, near Bellefonte, on the 9th day of January, 1851. He received his education at the Pennsylvania State College and gradu-
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ated at that school in 1880. He read medicine with Thomas R. Hayes, M. D., of Bellefonte, during 1879 and 1880. He took three fill courses of lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and gradu- ated at that school in March, 1883, and moved to Milroy about the close of August, 1881, where he still continues to practice in the medi- cal profession.
SAMUEL J. BOYER, M.D., was born at Mar- kelsville, in Perry County, Pa., July 2, 1856. Received his early education at Markelsville, and afterward studied at the New Bloomfield Academy. In the spring of 1877 he com- meneed the study of medicine at Plainfield, in Cumberland County, Pa., with Preceptor J. E. Vancamp, where he continued his studies till the fall of 1879. From that place he went to the city of Baltimore and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In the spring he returned to Markelsville and there pursued the study of medicine under the instructions of J. D. Shull till the opening of college, and then attended medical lectures during the following winter, and graduated at the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons in Baltimore on the 1st day of March, 1881. He registered his diploma in Carlisle, in Cumberland County, Pa., and prac- ticed with his former preceptor for seven months. Ile then went to Illinois and after one year he located in Elliottsburg, Perry County, Pa., and continued to practice medicine for a period of over two years. He then went to Ohio and attended a partial course of lectures at the Cincinnati Medical College of Physicians and Surgeons, and during the next spring he came back to Pennsylvania. On the 12th day of March, 188 1, he located at Siglerville, where he began the practice of medicine, and where he still continues.
B. RUSH KOHLER, M.D., was born in Reedsville, in Mifflin County, September 7, 1865. ITe received his education at the con- mon schools of Mifflin County. In 1879 he went to Utah Territory and there commenced the study of medicine under the instruction of F. S. Kohler, M.D., and afterwards he gradu- ated at the Medical Department of the Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, Ohio, Febru-
ary 25, 1885. He is now engaged in the practice at Reedsville.
Among the later physicians at Belleville should be named the following : Dr. Angustus Hibler, for several years subsequent to 1850; and from 1861 to 1867, Dr. Sheaffer (elsewhere spoken of); Dr. M. F. Hudson, who succeeded him and remained until 1880; Dr. John B. Floyd took the place of the latter, and is a practicing physician at Bolleville at the present time ; Dr. M. B. Garver, a homeopathie physi- cian, was there several years prior to October, 1885, when he removed to Lancaster County ; Dr. J. J. Dahlen, a German doctor, who came in 1855 and remained until 1859, when he re- moved to the State of Ohio, and returning in 1866, remained until 1875; and Dr. J. W. Lyle, who commenced practicing medicine in Belle- ville in 1884, and is there at the present time.
MEDICAL SOCIETIES .- The first medical so- ciety of Mifflin County was organized in 1845. The following is a list of the officers and mem- bers at that time :
President, Dr. Joseph B. Ard; Vice-Presi- dents, Drs. Thomas Van Valzah, Joseph Hen- derson; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. T. A. Worrall ; Recording Secretary, Dr. C. Cameron ; Secretary, Dr. James Culbertson. Members, Drs. J. C. Reynolds, Samuel Maclay, George V. Mitchell, A. Rothrock, Charles Bower, Lewis Hoover and John Metz. Afterwards the following also became members: Drs. How- ard, E. W. Hale, Robert Martin, AA. W. Mass, I. B. Herring and S. S. Cummings. How long this organization continued to exist is un- known. Of this original society, Drs. A. Roth- rock, Samuel Maclay and John Metz are still living and practicing in the county.
The present Mifflin County Medical Society was organized March 4, 1874. The first meet- ing was held at the office of Dr. Charles S- Hurlbut, of Lewistown. The following ofli- vers were then elected :
President, Dr. A. Rothrock ; Vice-President, Dr. T. II. Van Valzah ; Corresponding Seere- tary, Dr. George V. Mitchell ; Treasurer, Dr. A. Harshbarger ; Secretary, Dr. A. H. Shaeffer. Members, Drs. C. S. Hurlbut, M. F. Hudson, James T. Mahon, A. S. Harshbarger. The so-
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ciety has held four meetings each year since its organization, and at the present time is in a flourishing condition. The following is a list of the present, officers and members : President, Dr. A. II. Shaeffer ; Vice-Presidents, Drs. (. G. ! Harmen, V. O. MeKim ; Treasurer, Dr. W. IT. Parcels ; Secretary, Dr. A. S. Harshbarger. Members, Drs. C. S. Hurlbut, T. II. Van Valzah, G. C. Dean, S. II. Rothrock, A. Harsh- barger, W. S. Wilson, John P. Getter, A. Rothrock, T. B. Floyd, I. IT. Mahon, Woods Sterrett.
CHAPTER IV.
THE BOROUGH OF LEWISTOWN.
AMoxa the traders who came up the valley of the Juniata a short time before the purchase of this territory from the Indians, in 1751, was Robert Buchanan, who had formerly lived at Carlisle. He located a trading-post at "the meeting of the waters " of the Kishacoquillas Creek with the Juniata, at the place where lived Pokety, an Indian chief, of whom he bought land.1 Kishacoquillas, the Shawanese chief from whom the valley takes its name, also is said to have lived there. He died in 1756, and in June of that year Robert II. Morris sent a letter of condolence to his sons.
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