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Sharbaugh, W. J., a native of Summitville, Pa .; place of residence and practice, Houtz- dale : degree M. D. conferred by Kentucky School of Medicine June 18, 1891.
Shock, J. C., a native of New Washington ; place of residence and practice, Ramey ; degree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medical College 1891.
Smathers. W. J., a native of Jefferson county. Pa. : place of residence. DuBois: de-
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gree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medical Col- lege March 12, 1873.
Smead, J. J., a native of Clearfield ; place of residence, New Washington; places of prac- tice, Chest Township and New Washington; time of continuous practice, twenty-three years.
Smith, Joseph W., a native of York, Pa .; place of residence, Osceola ; places of practice, New Oxford, Philadelphia and Osceola; de- gree M. D. conferred by Bellevue Hospital Medical College March 1, 1870.
Smith, Reuben, a native of Tioga county, Pa .; place of residence, Grampian ; places of practice, Elk county and Grampian ; degree M. D. conferred by American Eclectic Col- lege February 18, 1886.
Canada ; place of residence, DuBois, Pa .; de- gree M. D. and Surgery conferred by Balti- more College of Physicians and Surgeons June 3, 1907.
Spackman, R. V., a native of Bellefonte. Pa .; place of residence, DuBois; places of practice, Luthersburg and DuBois; degree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medical College March, 1870. Deceased.
Spackman, J. P., a native of DuBois ; place of residence and practice, DuBois; degree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medical College May 15, 1896.
Sprankle, P. D., place of residence, Du- Bois: places of practice, Pittsburg, Punxsut- awney and DuBois: degree M. D. and Sur- gery conferred by Jefferson Medical College May, 1904.
Stern, W. J., a native of Philadelphia ; place of residence, Woodland, Pa .; degree M. D. conferred by Medico Chi. College 1902.
ship; place of residence, Clearfield ; places of practice, Woodland and Clearfield ; degree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medical College March 12, 1881.
Stitzel, J. W., a native of Ewensville, Pa .; place of residence and practice, Houtzdale ; degree M. D. conferred by Hahnemann Med- ical College May 5, 1896.
Strowbridge, H. P., place of residence, Du- Bois; places of practice, Oil City, Rouseville and DuBois; time of continuous practice, twenty-three years.
Sullivan, J. C., a native of Armstrong county, Pa .; place of residence and practice, DuBois; degree M. D. conferred by Western Pennsylvania College, March 27, 1890.
Sweeney, D. H., a native of Penn Vil-
Smith, N. W., a native of New Brunswick, .lage, N. Y .; place of residence, Clearfield ; places of practice, New Bloomfield and Clearfield ; time of continuous practice forty- four years.
Sweeney, Barnabas, a native of Allegheny county, Pa .; place of residence, DuBois; places of practice, Brookville and DuBois : time of practice thirty-seven years.
Sweeney, G. B., a native of Latrobe ; place of residence, DuBois; degree M. D. conferred by Baltimore College of Physi- cians and Surgeons March 15, 1886.
Taylor, J. R., a native of Philadelphia ; place of residence, Morrisdale ; places of practice, Breck, Colorado, Philadelphia and Morrisdale ; degree M. D. conferred by Uni- versity of Pennsylvania 1875.
Thompson, H. H., a native of Storms- town, Pa .; place of residence and practice, Mahaffey ; degree M. D. conferred by Jeffer- son Medical College April 3, 1889.
Thorn, A. I., a native of Clearfield ; place Stewart, S. C., a native of Bradford Town- of residence, Kylertown ; degree M. D. con-
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ferred by University of Pennsylvania March 12, 1872.
Thorn, Paul, a native of Clearfield ; place of residence, Kylertown : degree M. D. con- ferred by Baltimore University School of Medicine March 16, 1867.
Thorpe, W. P .. a native of Curry Run, Pa. ; place of residence, Winburne ; places of practice, Winburne and Straight ; degree M. D. and Surgery conferred by Baltimore Medical College May 11. 1905.
Thorp. J. D., a native of Greenwood township; place of residence, Curry Run ; places of practice, Curry Run and McGees Mills ; degree M. D. conferred by Columbus Medical College March 2, 1892.
Tobin, Thomas, a native of Brockway- ville, Pa. ; place of residence, Bigler ; places of practice, Grampian, Wallaceton and Big- ler ; degree M. D. conferred by University of Buffalo, February 21, 1882.
Todd, Fernandez, a native of Summit- ville, Pa .; place of residence, Houtzdale ; degree M. D. conferred by University of Pennsylvania March 12, 1875.
Torbert, J. S., a native of Williamsport, Pa .; place of residence, Winburne ; places of practice, Driftwood and Winburne ; de- gree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medical College March 12, 1881.
Tracy, E. M., a native of Smithport, Pa .; place of residence and practice, Houtzdale ; degree M. D. and Surgery conferred by University of Pennsylvania September 28, 1903.
Twitmire, T. C., a native of Milesburg, Pa. ; place of residence, Glen Richie ; degree M. D. conferred by Western Reserve Uni- versity March 3, 1886.
Ulbrich, Seth S., places of practice, Wil-
liampsort and Osceola; degree M. D. con- ferred by Jefferson Medical College March 14, 1881.
Ulmer, Stephen E., a native of Lycom- ing, Pa .; place of residence, Wallaceton ; degree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medi- cal College June 15. 1896: degree Ph. G. conferred by Philadelphia College of Phar- macy.
Van Fleet. Walter, a native of Piermont, N. Y. : place of residence, DuBois ; places " of practice, Watsontown and DuBois: de- gree M. D. conferred by Hahnemann Medi- cal College March 10, 1880.
Van Valzah, H. B., a native of Millheim, Pa .; place of residence and practice, Clear- field; degree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medical College March 12, 1873. Deceased.
Vaughn, J. E., a native of Madison, Me. ; place of residence, Houtzdale ; degree M. D. conferred by University of Pennsylvania March 15, 1880.
Wagoner, E. F., a native of York, Pa .; place of residence, Osceola ; places of prac- tice, York, Manchester and Osceola ; degree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medical Col- lege March 29, 1884.
Walters, J. L., a native of Loretto, Pa .; place of residence, Houtzdale ; degree M. D. conferred by College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Baltimore. March 1, 1881.
Waterworth, S. J., a native of Baltimore, Md. : place of residence and practice, Clear- field ; degree M. D. conferred by College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore. April 8, 1893.
Weida. Isadore J .. a native of Berks county, Pa. : place of residence, Peale ; de- gree M. D. confered by University of Penn- sylvania May 1, 1890.
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Weidemann, F. H., a native of Philadel- phia; place of residence and practice, Mor- risdale ; degree M. D. conferred by Medico Chi. College May 20, 1899.
Wesner, W. A., a native of Bald Eagle, Pa .; place of residence, Houtzdale ; places of practice, Loretto, Carlton and Houtz- dale : degree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medical College March II, 1876.
Whittier, G. M., a native of Maine; place of residence, Houtzdale ; degree M. D. con- ferred by Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege March 1, 1875.
Wilson, Preston, a native of Clearfield ; place of residence and practice, Clearfield ; degree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medi- cal College April 2, 1886. Deceased.
Wilson, George, a native of Washington, Pa .; place of residence, Luthersburg : places of practice, Big Run, Grampian, and Luth- ersburg ; time of continuous practice thirty- six years.
Wilson, A. G., a native of Juniata county, Pa .; place of residence, Glen Hope ; places of practice, Osceola and Glen Hope ; degree M. D. conferred by University of Pennsyl- vania May 10, 1876.
Wilson, O. W., a native of Clearfield. Pa .; residence and place of practice, Clearfield; de- gree M. D. conferred by Medico Chi. College May 24, 1902.
Wilson, H. Sheridan, a native of Hunt- ingdon county, Pa .; place of residence and practice, Smoke Run ; degree M. D. conferred by College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, Baltimore, April 18, 1895.
Winslow. Byron, a native of Elk county, Pa .; place of residence, Curwensville ; places of practice, Philadelphia, Clearfield and Curwensville : degree M. D. conferred
by Jefferson Medical College March 12, 1879. Deceased.
Wood, Charles D., a native of Elmira, N. Y .; place of residence, Coalport; degree M. D. conferred by College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, 1880.
Wood, G. W., a native of Wellsville, N. Y. ; place of residence, Houtzdale ; places of practice, Glen Hope and Houtzdale ; degree M. D. conferred by College of Physicians and Surgeons March 1890.
Woodside, H. L., a native of Clearfield county ; place of residence, Wallaceton ; de- gree M. D. and Surgery conferred by Jef- ferson Medical College June 8, 1908.
Woodside, Harry A., a native of Clear- field county ; place of residence and prac- tice, Williamsgrove; degree M. D. conferred by Jefferson Medical College May 14, 1897.
Worrell, S. W., a native of Newburg; place of residence, Clearfield ; degree M. D. conferred by University of Buffalo May 3, 1892.
Wrigley, J. Kay, a native of Altoona; places of practice, Tyrone, Altoona and Clearfield; degree M. D. conferred by Hahnemann Medical College, March 8, 1887. Deceased.
Yeaney, G. B., a native of New Maysville, Pa .; place of residence, Clarion, Pa. ; places of practice, Clearfield and Clarion ; degree M. D. conferred by Western University May 28, 1903.
Yearick, G. W., a native of Madisonburg, Pa .; place of residence, Woodland ; degree M. D. and Surgery conferred by Medico Chi. College 1903.
Young, Robert J., a native of England ; place of residence, Snow Shoe ; degree M. D. conferred by College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, March 16, 1889.
CHAPTER XV
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
The Clearfield Hospital-The DuBois Hospital-The Clearfield County Home.
TIIE CLEARFIELD HOSPITAL
The Clearfield Hospital was incorporated in 1901. The following year, it was consoli- dated with another hospital, which had been subsequently organized and the charter was amended and the corporation re-organized. Through the generosity of the heirs of Fred- erick Mossop, deceased, and other charitable citizens, about four acres of land and $20,- 000.00 in money were donated toward the lo- cation and erection of a new hospital, which was completed in July, 1905, at a total cost of $38.358.09, exclusive of the ground. The building is 157 x 113 feet. The central part known as the "Administration Building." is two stories in height and the wings, in which the public wards are located, are each one story high.
The hospital is well equipped and up-to-date in its appearance and appliances. It has ac- commodations for thirty-five patients, twenty- two in the public wards and thirteen in private rooms. During the year 1909, 371 patients were treated. Of these, 269 were entirely free, or paid but a fractional part of the cost of their care. A chartered training school for nurses is maintained under competent man- agement, the first class therefrom graduated during 1910.
The State Legislature, in 1907, appropri- ated $23,000.00; $15,000.00 toward paying the indebtedness on the building, and $8,- 000.00 to assist in maintaining the Hospital for two years. This amount was reduced by the Governor, because of insufficient revenue, to $6,000.00 toward the indebtedness and $4,- 000.00 for maintenance for two years. The State appropriation for the years of 1909 and 1910 was $8,000.00 for maintenance and $2,- 000.00 toward improvements for the two years. These appropriations by the State Leg- islature are insufficient to support the hospital, and the deficiencies have hitherto been pro- vided for by the generosity of the citizens of Clearfield and Curwensville, and other persons interested in the welfare of the institution.
Harry M. Kurtz of Clearfield has recently donated to the hospital the sum of $5,000.00 for the purpose of erecting a Nurses Home, which will be completed in 1911, and various other improvements are contemplated. The demands upon the Hospital are constantly growing and it is one of the most useful insti- tutions in the county.
The following are the officers for 1910:
H. B. Powell, President.
Frank Fielding, Vice-President. George R. Bigler, Sec. and Treas.
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Directors.
Geo. R. Bigler, Attorney at Law.
H. F. Bigler, Pres. Clearfield Fire Brick Co. Frank Fielding, Attorney at Law.
Frank G. Harris, Attorney at Law.
Hugh M. Irvin, Pres. Curwensville Na- tional Bank, Curwensville.
Fred B. Kerr, Treas. Clearfield Novelty · Works.
A. W. Lee, Pres. Central Penna. Light and Power Company.
Thos. H. Murray, Attorney at Law.
Rembrandt Peale, Pres. Peale, Peacock & Kerr, Inc.
H. B. Powell, Pres. County National Bank.
R. A. Shillingford, General Manager, Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp.
Ladies Auxiliary.
Mrs. Frank Fielding, President.
Mrs. Alexander Ennis Patton, Ist Vice- President.
Mrs. A. R. Powell, 2nd Vice-President.
MIrs. Pascaline Toner, 3rd Vice-President.
Mrs. Blanche M. Biddle, Treasurer.
Mrs. H. J. Hartswick, Secretary. Junior Auxiliary Miss Helen Murray, President.
Miss Alice Bigler, Ist Vice-President.
Miss Della Savage, 2nd Vice-President.
Mrs. J. Lewis Irwin, Treasurer.
Miss Isabel Powell, Secretary. Superintendent. Miss Jessie M. Durstine. Nurses Training School
Mrs. A. H. Woodward, President.
Mrs. Geo. R. Bigler, Secretary.
THE DU BOIS HOSPITAL
The Du Bois Hospital was organized in the year 1897, with a capacity of twenty-three
beds, and at the end of the same year it was incorporated under the laws of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania, by a decree signed by the Hon. Cyrus Gordon, President Judge of Clearfield county. It is one of the class corpo- nations not organized for profit. It is not authorized to accumulate money, if it were pos- sible, excepting for necessary expenditures, nor to use its funds, however obtained, for any other purpose than the proper maintenance and improvement of the Hospital. The first mem- bers of the board of directors were: John E. Du Bois, A. L. Cole, M. Lundergan, S. Fu- gate and J.º C. Sullivan. These, as well as the Medical Staff, all serve without compensation.
The management have constantly aimed to make the institution as nearly self-supporting as possible, and at the same time to be char- itably inclined to the poor and needy by not refusing to care for worthy poor; but, as in our community charges must necessarily be moderate, as the vast majority of our patients are really poor, the hospital has never been self-supporting. It has, since its organization, been dependent upon the charity of individ- uals, and the liberally disposed, as well as the State for appropriations.
The charity of such individuals, etc., has
1 been such that many poor, without means to help themselves, have been treated free of charge, and those whom poor districts, or in our own county, the county commissioners have met the ordinary expenses of, have had furnished them the advantages of hospital at- tention and nursing in medical and surgical cases at a rate below the actual cost of board and nursing.
In November, 1909, the hospital building was badly damaged by fire. All patients were safely removed and provided for.
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April 15, 1910, the Du Bois Hospital, after undergoing thorough repairs, refurnishing, and the rest, was again opened to the public.
Before this was done, a re-organization by the enlarging of the board of directors to its full capacity of fifteen, as provided for in the Constitution of the Du Bois Hospital Associa- tion, was effected.
The present board of directors are as fol- lows: S. J. Schrecongost, President ; James A. Gleason, Vice-President ; D. E. Hibner, Frank Guinzburg, S. A. Eisenman, George Minns, Jr., James Pifer, A. R. Van Tassel, E. 1. Webster, H. E. Ginter, W. H. Cannon, A. L. Cole, M. Lundergan, Frank Hahne, Hon. A. S. Moulthrop, and J. C. Sullivan, secretary to the board.
At the time of re-organization, the Sisters of Mercy were given the administrative charge of the Du Bois Hospital, and under their su- pervision, the hospital has prospered as in no other previous period. In fact, the work of the institution is limited by its bed capacity only. Mother M. Camilla is the present super- intendent. Since the opening of the institu- tion, April 15, 1910, there has been one hun- dred and thirty-one admissions.
THIE CLEARFIELD COUNTY HIOME
The handsome three-story brick building known as The Clearfield County Home is sit- uated in Lawrence Township on the Pennsyl- vania railroad, one mile below Clearfield. The County Home property comprises 180 acres of what were formerly known as the John F. Weaver and Goon farms. When the question of organizing the county into a poor district was first submitted to the voters it failed to carry, but the second time it was voted on, at the spring election of February 20, 1894, the
project carried, the vote being 4,944 for, and 3,485 against-a majority of only 459. The county commissioners under whose direction the Home was built were James S. Read, Wil- liam T. Ross and A. E. Woolridge. Hon. Cyrus Gordon was on the bench at the time, and George E. Owens was clerk to the com- missioners. The contract was let October 1, 1894, to the lowest bidder, W. V. Hughes, of Pittsburgh, the price being $38,650.00. The architect was C. M. Robinson, of Altoona, who was chosen by the commissioners. Jacob Straddler, a skilled mechanic and builder, was the general superintendent of the building and work. From the opening day, December 30, 1895, to the present time the tax payers of Clearfield county have looked upon the Home as one of the best investments this county has ever made. Indeed, the wonder has always been since its erection, why there could have been so many votes cast against building this splendid institution, which has been a blessing to thousands of the sons of Clearfield county -an asylum for the poor and a home for the needy. There were 143 inmates in the Home in August, 1910. Besides furnishing the county's poor with all the necessities of life and solicitously caring for the sick and aged, the spiritual side of the inmate's nature has not been overlooked as a chaplain in the person of Rev. A. B. Williams, pastor of the United Brethren church of East End Clearfield, every Sunday holds preaching services in the well appointed chapel in the second story which is equipped with all the comforts of a modern church. Dining rooms are furnished for both the men and women, while the sleeping quar- ters on the second floor are similarly arranged. A large laundry and kitchen are at the rear of the first floor. Pure wholesome food is sup-
General View of West Clearfield
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plied in abundance. In connection with the Home proper, a fine farm is carefully culti- vated under the supervision of the steward. Those male inmates who are able to assist in the work are pressed into service,' so there are not many idle men about the premises during the summer and fall months. After the larder is stocked with products of the farm and the barns and granary supplied the remainder of the crop is sold by the steward. The officials in charge of the Home are as follows: Stew- ard, J. Sumner Hoyt; Matron, Mrs. Hoyt ; Physician, Dr. J. W. Gordon; Nurse, C. E. Wilson. The average weekly cost per capita is $2.31. During the year 1909 the number of days' support given inmates, including va- grants, was 63,067. At the present time only 21/2 mills are levied for County Home pur- poses. In the year 1909, the total current ex- penses for maintaining the Home were $19,- III.31. Viewed from every standpoint the Clearfield County Home is acknowledged to
rank second in the State and no similar insti- tution is more efficiently managed.
In addition to maintaining this institution, Clearfield county, in the year 1909, expended $5,265.51 for outdoor relief of its poor, while the sum of $15,469.09 was paid out of its treasury toward the support of its insane in the State hospitals. One thousand one hun- dred and sixty-one dollars and fifty-four cents was also expended by the county for the main- tenance of its feeble-minded in the training schools of the commonwealth, and $364.52 was paid for the support of the poor in other institutions. Including other outside expendi- tures, amounting to $1,976.54, Clearfield county, in the year 1909, expended $48,357.12 for the support of the poor, sick and insane within her borders. This record for public charity is most commendable and the heart of every true Clearfield countian should rejoice that this worthy benevolence is carried on on such a generous and far reaching scale.
CHAPTER XVI
EDUCATION
A History of the Schools from 18344 to the Present Time-School Law of 1834-Compulsory School Law-Early Schools and Schoolhouses-Schools and Academics of Clearfield, Curwensville, DuBois and Other Towns.
In the year 1834 a law, a section of which follows, was approved for Pennsylvania by Governor Wolf :
Section I. "Be it enacted That the city and county of Philadelphia, and every other county in this Commonwealth shall each form a school division and that every ward, town- ship and borough within the several school divisions shall form a school district and each of said districts shall contain a competent number of common schools for the education of every child within the limits thereof who shall apply, either in person, or by his or her parents, guardians or next friend for admission and instruction."
The next year an amendment was made providing that a township or district voting in the negative should not be compelled to accept this system.
It was not until many years later, in 1897, that the Compulsory School Law was passed, which requires that every child in the state who is physically able (with cer- tain exceptions), shall attend school regu- larly between the ages of six and sixteen years.
. With the adoption of the law of 1834, be-
gan a new era in the educational history of our State and county. The date and loca- tion of the first free school held in Clearfield county are not known, but it is probable that it was held in the Clearfield Academy building which had been completed in 1830, or in the Curwensville Academy, opened the following year.
School had been held in the Clearfield Academy in 1830-31 by Dr. A. T. Schryver, but this was not a free school.
The first common school for Pike town- ship was held in the Curwensville Academy about 1835, John Patton, Sr., serving as master at eighteen dollars per month. An- other common school of early date was that taught by John Carlisle in Brady township about 1836. In 1838 a school-house was erected at public expense on the Penfield Road, and here a free school was held for many years.
Having given a general review of the early public and private schools. we will give a brief history of the schools in a few of the larger towns in the county, and some sta- tistics which may be of interest.
Clearfield Schools :- From 1830 until
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1902 schools, both private and public, were held almost continuously in the Clearfield Academy. Here, in the early forties, came boys and girls from miles around to receive instruction. The Academy was the only source of instruction in French and Latin in the county. The girls were taught use- ful arts, such as needle work, and many grandmothers to-day show with pride, the neat "samplers" which they stitched during their Academy days. Later the building was used for various purposes, such as reli- gious meetings, kindergarten and even as a dwelling house. In 1902, the old grey walls, so closely associated with the early days of Clearfield county, were torn down, and on their ruins arose a splendid new building, with every modern equipment, typical of the new century, as the other had been of the old.
The first building erected for the special use of public schools was the "Town Hall." built in 1851. Here the public schools were held until 1872, when the Leonard Graded School began to be constructed. The Leon- ard Graded School was so named in honor of James T. Leonard, a resident of Clear- field, who contributed over $14,000.00 for the erection and furnishing of this school. It was completed in 1874, and is a fine build- ing of red brick. It is situated at the east end of Market Street, and is still in use as a public school.
The High School building was erected on the site of the old Clearfield Academy in 1902. It is a splendid building of yellow brick, and contains every modern conven- ience, including facilities for instruction in domestic science and manual training.
In 1885 a school building known as the
"Fourth Ward School," was built. This school originally contained seven grades, but additions have since been built, one of two rooms in 1903, and one of four rooms in 1908.
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