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Julius Byles studied law in the office of Benjamin Grant, at Erie, Penn- sylvania. He was admitted to the Erie County bar in August, 1868. He immediately afterward began the practice of law in Venango County, Penn- sylvania, and continued in his practice there until about January 1, 1870, when he came to Titusville and entered into partnership with F. B. Guthrie, under the firm name of Guthrie & Byles. The firm lasted until Mr. Guthrie left for California in the fall of 1888, a period of over eighteen years. Mr. Byles continued in. the practice of his profession alone until 1890, when he associated with him in the profession Eugene Mackey, the partnership of Byles & Mackey lasting until the present time.
Eugene Mackey first read law in the office of Sherman & Grambine,
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but finished his study in the office of Julius Byles. He was admitted to the bar in March, 1889. He entered into partnership with Julius Byles May I. 1890, with whom he is still associated in the legal profession. Both members of the firm practice in Crawford and all the neighboring counties, before the Supreme and Superior courts of the State, and before the United States courts. Their office is on the second floor of the Chase & Stewart Block, fronting on Spring Street.
M. J. Heywang read law in the office of Roger Sherman in Titusville, from 1872 to 1875, when he was admitted to the Crawford County bar. He has been engaged constantly ever since in the practice of law in Crawford and the adjoining counties. He practices before the Supreme and Superior courts of Pennsylvania, and in the United States courts. Mr. Heywang has an important record for successful practice before the Interstate Com- merce Commission. His office is on the second floor of the Chase & Stewart Block, rooms Nos. I and 2, fronting on Franklin Street.
George A. Chase began the study of law at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, with Alexander Miller in 1865. He was admitted to the bar in that city in 1868. In 1873 he was appointed United States Commissioner, and he has continuously held the office ever since. He has been City Solicitor of Titus- ville ten years. He has practiced law in Titusville for the last thirty years. He has practiced in all the courts of Pennsylvania, and in all the courts of the United States. His office is on the second floor of the Chase & Stewart Block, fronting on Spring Street.
Samuel Grumbine began to read law with Gurdon S. Berry in 1871, while teaching in the Soldiers' Orphan School at Titusville. His studies were interrupted by his election as City Clerk in 1872. He held this office two years, and resumed the study of law with Harris & Fassett in April. 1874. He was admitted to the bar of Crawford County by Judge Lowrie, Novem- ber 17, 1875. He was afterward admitted to the bar of Venango. Warren, Forest. Erie, Mckean and Lebanon counties, also in the District and Circuit courts of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and the Supreme and Superior courts of the State. His office is on the second floor of the Algrunix Block.
C. H'. Benedict began to read law at Pleasantville at the age of eighteen, in August, 1881, in the office of M. C. Beebe. He was admitted to the Venango County bar in August, 1884. He immediately afterward opened
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an office at Pleasantville alone there for about four months. Then he went into the office of Mr. Beebe as a partner, with the firm name of Beebe & Benedict. The partnership lasted until Mr. Beebe's death. He was ad- mitted to the bar of Crawford County in 1886. He practiced law at Talli- poosa, Georgia, in 1888-9. Settled in Titusville in 1890, and has practiced in Crawford and the surrounding counties since. His office is in the Chase & Stewart Block, fronting on Franklin Street.
George Frank Brown was registered as a student of law in the courts of Crawford County in November, 1891, and on the 24th of November in the same year he entered the office of Roger Sherman in the city of Titusville, and continued in that office until February 28, 1895. On that date he was admitted to the courts of Crawford County as a member of the bar, where he has since continued to practice. He also practices before the Supreme and Superior courts of the State, and in the courts of the several counties adjoining Crawford. He is a City Solicitor, to the office of which he was elected in June, 1898. His office is on the second floor of the Ralston Block.
Chester L. Kerr, in November, 1891, was registered in Crawford County as a student of law in the office of Sherman & Grumbine, at Titus- ville. During the school year of 1892-3 he read law in the office of Henry Newman at Chicago, Ill., and attended the sessions of the Chicago College of Law. In 1893-4 he was in the office of Samuel Grumbine in Titusville. On October 1, 1894, he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, and was graduated with the class of 1895. On June 2, 1896, he was admitted to the bar of Crawford County. He immediately opened an office in Titusville on the second floor of the Chase Block, over Thompson's drug store, opposite the city fountain, where he is still located. He is a mem- ber of the bar in the State of Michigan, and practices in the counties ad- joining Crawford.
Waldron M. Dame read law in the office of R. & W. M. Ingraham, in Brooklyn, New York, and he was admitted to the bar in 1867. He came to the oil country in 1870 and practiced law here until 1887, when he was elected City Recorder of Titusville and served in that capacity until 1889, when the office was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Since 1896 he has served continuously as City Clerk, and since 1894 he has also
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performed the duties of Secretary of the Water Department. His duties in the two positions are of a semi-legal character.
George Bryan began the study of law at the law school of Richmond, Virginia, College, September, 1879. He was graduated in that depart- ment in June, 1881, and also thereupon admitted to the bar of the State and Federal courts of Virginia. He then spent two months at the University of Virginia in law study, taking the summer course of that institution. He practiced law in Richmond until April, 1890, when ill health required him to suspend work. His bad health continuing, he was unable to resume prac- tice until September, 1895, when he was admitted to the bar of Crawford County, Pennsylvania. He has since been engaged in practice in Crawford and adjoining counties. In 1898 he published a volume of law upon Petro- leum and Natural Gas. His office is on the second floor of Sherman & Beebe Block, southwest corner of Washington Street and Central Avenue.
Jules A. C. Dubar began the study of law in the office of Sherman & Grumbine in 1868, and continued in their office until admitted to the bar at Meadville, September 22, 1891. He practices in all the courts of the State, including the Supreme and Superior courts, as well as the United States courts. Office at the City Hall.
Sidney A. Schwartz registered in March, 1893, as a student of law in the office of M. J. Heywang in Titusville. He was admitted to the bar of Crawford County in September, 1896. His office and residence is at the corner of Third and West Spring streets.
DOCTORS OF MEDICINE.
As stated in the foregoing pages, Dr. Isaac Kellogg was the first phy- sician located at Titusville. The names of some of the earlier physicians since his time have been given. Dr. Jolin Shugert and Dr. W. B. Shugert were among later practitioners. Dr. William M. Jennings was a prominent physician at Titusville in the early sixties. He was successful in oil terri- tory investments, and being at the time young and unmarried, he disposed of his office, discontinued practice and about the year 1864 took up a temporary residence in New York City. About three years later, having returned to Titusville, he resumed the work of his profession. He married a daughter of Mr. John Waid, of Steuben Township, and a sister of the present Dr. J. M. Waid, of the city, and forming a partnership with Dr. Richardson in
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1868, he was getting a good practice, when an accident very suddenly ter- minated his life. In the month of December, 1868, he occupied with his wife private rooms, while they took their meals at a hotel. One morning he went as usual to Clark's drug store, where now is Renting's drug store, to take some medicine before breakfast. As he was entering the store some one engaged him in conversation, and, while intent upon the subject of the colloquy, he approached leisurely to the spot on the shelf where the bot- tle containing the medicine was placed, and reaching for it while still talk- ing, he inadvertently took the wrong bottle, poured the usual quantity into a glass, swallowed it and soon after returned to his rooms and walked with his wife to the hotel for breakfast. While eating he began to experience strange sensations, and after a little remarked to his wife that he feared something serious ailed him. Could he have drank the wrong medicine? He did not long speculate upon the subject, but rising from the table hurried to the drug store and found standing beside the medicine which he had in- tended to take a bottle containing a deadly poison, which he then knew he , had taken into his stomach. He hastened to his rooms and told his wife of what had happened and said to her that in a short time he would be a dead man, that nothing less than a miracle could save him. His warning soon proved true. His partner and other physicians were summoned, but all efforts to save his life were unavailing.
Dr. T. F. Oakes, who practiced in Titusville from 1865 to 1867, was able and accomplished. He died at his post.
Dr. George O. Moody began the practice of medicine in about the fall of 1862. He had a high standing in his profession. After practicing sev- eral years in Titusville, he went to Europe, made a study of specialties at Vienna and at some of the best universities and hospitals elsewhere and, re- turning home in the early seventies, he resumed his professional work. But in the winter of 1886-7, in the midst of a highly useful career, he suddenly one evening dropped dead in his own house. Heart difficulty was probably the cause. In the death of Drs. Jennings, Oakes and Moody the medical profession lost three strong men. But other able practitioners have sur- vived in Titusville for a generation.
Dr. Il'illiam l'arian had superior advantages in his early medical edu- cation. Two of his maternal uncles, Dr. Washington L. Atlee, of Philadel- phia. and Dr. John L. Atlee, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, were eminent sur-
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geons, who brought fame to American surgery by a bold advance in the mode of operations. They taught the profession that abdominal tumors could, with the aid of anesthetics, be safely removed. By their improved methods in mechanical surgery the loss of human life has been greatly reduced. Dr. Varian studied in the office of his uncle, Dr. Washington L. Atlee, and took his degree of M. D. March 4, 1854, at Pennsylvania Medical College, in Philadelphia. He practiced medicine in Pittsburg one year-from March, 1854, until March, 1855-when he moved to Chicago, where he continued in active practice until the breaking out of the Civil War in 1861. Having passed medical examination by the regular army board, he was commissioned by President Lincoln surgeon United States Volunteers on the 4th of Sep- tember, 1861. serving continuously from that time until the close of the war. He was mustered out September 6th, 1865. During the war Dr. Varian held numerous positions of authority and responsibility as medical director and superintendent of armies, army corps, military districts and de- partments, and large hospitals in the field and in the rear. Served on the staffs of Generals B. F. Prentiss, John Pope, Gordon Granger, Phil. Sher- idan, U. S. Grant, Rosecranz and Heintzelman, and made a record for efficiency in the organization of general hospitals, in the field and outside : and in directing the medical service of armies on the field of battle, in the transportation of the sick and wounded to the hospitals. with care for their condition as they were moved, and for their proper treatment while they were in hospitals. In 1864 Dr. Varian was promoted to the rank of lieuten- ant Colonel, and at the close of the war he was sixth in rank in the medical department of the volunteer surgeons in the United States army. At the close of the war. September 10, 1865, he settled at Titusville, where he has since been engaged continuously in active practice. Ever since coming to Titusville he has been a prominent member of the National, State and County medical societies. He was Vice-President of the State Medical Association in 1880. and President of that body in 1882. In his practice for a genera- tion at Titusville he has made a special record in abdominal surgery, as well as in general surgery and gynecological practice. He is vigorous in all his powers and has still before him years of additional usefulness. At the age of 66 he is ripe, but not ready for harvest.
Dr. George W. Barr has practiced medicine in Titusville longer than any other living physician. He began the study of medicine in 1852 under
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the preceptorship of Dr. George Sweetland, of Evans, New York. He sub- sequently studied under the instruction of Levi Aldrich, M. D., of Angola, New York; Dr. Charles H. Wilcox, physician in Buffalo Marine Hospital; and Professor James P. White, who appointed him resident physician of St. Mary's Lying-in Asylum, in 1855. He attended two full courses of lectures at the medical department of the University of Buffalo, from which he was graduated in 1856; also a post-graduate course at Bellevue Medical College, 1864-5. He began the private practice of medicine in Gowanda, New York, in 1856, and continued there engaged in the duties of his profes- sion until appointed examining surgeon upon the staff of General R. B. Van Valkenburg, at Elmira Barracks, in 1861. He was surgeon of the Sixty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, 1861-3, and has been United States Pension Examiner since February 12, 1884. He settled in Titusville February 6. 1865, where he has since been extensively engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery.
Dr. Barr is a member of the Venango County Medical Society, of which he was President in 1893. He has been a member of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania since 1867. He is a member of the American Medical Association. He was a member of the Ninth International Medical College, 1887, and of the Pan-American Medical Congress, 1893. Dr. Barr has been a member of the Titusville Board of Health since its organization in 1879. and has contributed largely to its practical efficiency by his per- sonal attention to its work. He has long officiated as surgeon of Chase Post, No. 50, Grand Army of the Republic, and ever since his residence in Titusville he has been the medical examiner for several of the leading life insurance companies.
Theodore J. Young, M. D., studied at Meadville, Pennsylvania, from 1857 to 1860, with Dr. John C. Cotton as his preceptor, and attended a course of medical lectures at Wooster College, at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1860-I. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1867-8. He passed examination by the Pennsylvania Army Board of Surgeons at Har- risburg, Pennsylvania, in 1862. He served as volunteer surgeon at the battle of Centerville. Virginia, the second battle of Bull Run, in 1862. He was appointed assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, January 30. 1863. That regiment had volunteered for nine months, and it was mustered out May 17. 1863. On the next day,
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May 18, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, acting as surgeon of the regiment, or in charge of the brigade hospital, the first brigade, second division of cavalry in the Army of the Cumberland, as necessity required, and taking an active part in nearly all the battles and engagements of that well known "Sabre Brigade." Dr. Young served as surgeon on the staffs of Generals Hatch and R. H. G. Winty. He also had charge of the division hospital at Huntsville, Alabama, and Eufaula, Georgia. He was mustered out at Macon, Georgia, August 23, 1865. He located in Titusville, Pennsylvania, October, 1865, where he has resided and been engaged in active practice ever since. He became a member of the Crawford County Medical Society in 1868, and was its Sec- retary in 1872. He was delegate to the American Medical Association in 1872: President of Crawford County Medical Society in 1878, and subse- quently its Secretary and Treasurer. He was delegate to the International Medical Congress, held in Berlin in 1890. He served as surgeon of Oil Creek R. R. from 1879 to 1884, and of the D. A. V. & P. R. R. from 1879 to 1887, and of the W. N. Y. & P. R. R. from 1884 to 1894. He was a member of the National Association of Railway Surgeons from 1891 to 1894. He is now Pension Examining Surgeon, receiving his appointment October 1, 1893. He is examining surgeon for the New York Life Insur- ance Company, appointed in 1869; Guardian Mutual, appointed in 1869: Germania and Hartford, appointed in 1870; Travelers, ap- pointed in 1884; Mutual of New York, appointed in 1887; Metro- politan, appointed in 1895, and others. He was County Physician from 1879 to 1890. His contributions to medical literature will be found in Medical Report in State Transactions, Volume IX, Part I, June, 1872; Hays American Journal of Medicine, No. CXL, October, 1875; Amputation of Clavicle and Scapula on Child Six Years Old, from railroad accident, and a recovery, together with many more contributions in pamphlet formn.
Morris Bailey, M. D., began the study of medicine by reading medical works at home. Then he read in the office of Dr. C. P. Kibby, in Spring- field, Massachusetts. He next studied at Castleton College, Vermont. In 1848 he was graduated from the Electric Institute, of Springfield, Massa- chusetts. He was subsequently engaged in office practice in Baltimore, Maryland. He practiced eight years at Bellows Falls, Vermont. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Medicine and Surgery in the winter of
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1864-5, and was graduated from that institution, receiving the degree of M. D. He came to Titusville in February, 1865, where he has had a large practice continuously ever since. He is a member of the American Eclectic Medical Association.
Dr. J. M. Il'aid began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Albert Logan, in Woodcock Borough, in 1881. He studied there five years, dur- ing which time he took two courses of lectures in the medical department of the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio. Then he took a course in the medical department of the Western University of Pennsylvania, re- ceiving the degree of M. D. in 1888. In the spring of 1889 he came to Titus- ville, where he has continuously ever since practiced medicine. He is a member of the Venango Medical Society, of the State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association.
James L. Dunn, M. D., began the study of medicine in 1846, studying during the summers and teaching in the winters. He was graduated from the medical department of the Western Reserve College, at Cleveland, Ohio; March 6, 1850. He practiced medicine from 1850 until the breaking out of the Rebellion in April, 1861. when his office was at Conneautville, Pennsyl- vania. He immediately entered the three months' service, as captain of Company D, McLane's Erie Regiment. At the end of the three months' term he recruited his company for three years, and placed it in camp at Erie, Pennsylvania, where it became Company H, Eighty-third Regiment, P. V. At this time he received the appointment of surgeon Pennsylvania Vol- unteers. with the rank of major, and was assigned to duty in the mustering office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained until March 6, 1872, when he was mustered as surgeon of the One Hundred and Ninth Regiment, P. V. He went to the front with his regiment, and while at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, he was appointed brigade surgeon of the Second Brigade, Second Division, Bank's Corps. In this capacity he continued during the entire remaining part of his service in the Twelfth and Twentieth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Cumberland and Army of Georgia.
On his return home he at once resumed the practice of medicine and sur- gery. In 1865 he was appointed United States Pension Surgeon, a posi- tion which he held for thirty years. He has practiced medicine in Titus- ville for almost thirty years.
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Dr. James Alfred Dunn studied medicine in the office of his father, Dr. J. L. Dunn, from 1882 to 1885. He was then a student four years at the New York Homeopathic City Medical College, graduating in 1889, taking the degree of M. D. Returning to Titusville, he engaged in the practice of his profession in partnership with his father, with whom he is still associated.
Dr. S: N. Burchfield was graduated at the Chicago Medical College in 1887, and he has practiced in Titusville ever since.
E. C. Quinby, M. D., began the reading of medicine with Dr. Anson Parsons, at Springboro, Pennsylvania, in 1877, and the same year he entered the Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1881. In July of that year he came to Titusville and commenced the practice of medicine, in which he has been continuously engaged until the present time. He is a member of the Hahnemann Medical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, and the American Institute of Homeopathy.
Dr. Hugh Jameson was graduated from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1889. He practiced in Edinburgh, Peebles and in the West Hartlepool, Durham County, England. He is a graduate of the West Penn- sylvania Medical College, Pittsburg. He has practiced at Titusville since 1890. He is a Fellow of the Royal Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh, and a member of the Venango County Medical Society.
WV. G. Johnston, M. D., commenced the study of medicine in 1886 in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1889. In October following he re-entered and took the post-graduate course during the winter of 1889-90, also doing hospital work in the dispensary at the same time. He is a member of the Venango County Medical Society, of the State Society, of the National Society and of the Association of Military Surgeons of America. He was for several years the secretary and health physician of the Titusville (Pennsylvania) Board of Health. For several years he was an assistant surgeon of the 16th Regiment, N. G. P. When the Spanish-American war broke out he offered his services with his regiment, and on May 5, 1898, was mustered into the U. S. service as first lieutenant and assistant surgeon of the 16th Pennsylvania U. S. Vol- unteers. From Chickamauga he was sent on detached service to Macon, Ga., to examine the recruits for the Third U. S. Immune Regiment. After finishing this duty he was sent back to his regiment, and later on assigned to the Ist Division Ambulance Company of the Ist A. C. With a detach-
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ment of this company he went with his regiment to Puerto Rico, and there was in the advance with the 16th Pa. Regiment. He participated in the battle of Coamo, August 9, 1898, and the engagement at Aibonito, August 12, 1898. He was later assigned as second in charge of the Ist Division Hospital in Puerto Rico, near Coamo, and afterward he had charge of it. When his regiment was ready to move, he was relieved of his care of the hospital, and assigned back to his place in the regiment. He next marched with his regiment and returned with it to the United States. Among other positions, he is medical inspector of the State Board of Health for Craw- ford County.
J. C. Wilson, M. D., began the study of medicine in the office of his father, Dr. George Wilson, at Luthersburg, Clearfield County, Pa. He was graduated from the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, in 1884. He first practiced, after his course at the university, eight years at Sigel, Jefferson County, Pa. He was next associated with his brother, Dr. H. M. Wilson, five years, at Evans City, Butler County, Pa. He came to Titusville in Septem- ber, 1897, and has since practiced here. He is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society and of the Pennsylvania Medical Association.
Dr. Catharine Walker began to read medicine with Dr. Asa S. Couch at Fredonia, N. Y., in 1882. She was graduated in 1885 at the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, taking the degree of M. D. She after- ward practiced at Fredonia from the fall of 1885 to the fall of 1887. Then she attended at New York Polyclinic Medical School and New York Post- Graduate Medical College for six months, in the winter of 1887-88. In 1888 she settled in Buffalo, N. Y., and practiced until 1892. In 1893 she began practice at Rochester, N. Y., and continued there until 1896, when she changed to Titusville, where she has since pursued the duties of her profes- sion.
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