Dr. William H. Kern and Ella M. Hunter

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Husband Dr. William H. Kern ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 8 Jun 1839 - Johnstown, Cambria Co, PA 2
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         Father: George W. Kern (1800-      ) 2 4
         Mother: Margaret Wakefield (      -      ) 4

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Wife Ella M. Hunter ^{1 3}

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           Born: 16 Aug 1842 3
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         Father: John M. Hunter (1807-1868) 3 5 6
         Mother: Ann Reese Banks (1810-1875) 3 5 6

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. William H. Kern

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He was educated at Johnstown Academy and Elder's Ridge Academy, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and in 1857 began the study of medicine with Dr. Samuel Kern, of Wilmore, Cambria County. The Civil War, however, interrupted his studies, and Aug. 3, 1861, he enlisted in Co. H, 12th P. R., and served as second lieutenant three years. In April, 1864, he enlisted as a veteran in the same company served as first lieutenant, and in June, 1864, was appointed captain by brevet. He was honorably discharged from the service June 29, 1865. In 1870 he resumed the study of medicine at St. James, Missouri, entered Flahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1873. He located in McKeesport in 1871, and developed a large and extensive practice. He became an established homeopathic physician in the city; was a member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Allegheny County, Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, Medical Society of America, Institute of Homeopathy and International Homeopathic Medical Society. In 1877 he took a special course of lectures on diseases of women at the private school of Prof. Reuben Ludlam, M. D., Chicago, Ill.
He was a Freemason and a republican.

Civil War: he was in company H, 12th Pa. R. C. over three years; he was wounded.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 424.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 744.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 620.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 422, 424.

5 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 411.

6 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 605
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