Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Dr. W. W. McConnell and Elizabeth Atwell




Husband Dr. W. W. McConnell 1

           Born: 1858 - Lawrence Co, PA 2
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         Father: Kinsey McConnell (      -      ) 2
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       Marriage: Dec 1901 2



Wife Elizabeth Atwell 3

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         Father: Robert Atwell, Jr. (1816-1899) 4 5 6
         Mother: Elizabeth Byers (1821-1899) 4 6



   Other Spouse: [Unk] McKee (      -      ) 2

• Note: This may be the same person as : Lizzie Olive Atwell.


Children
1 F Blanche McConnell 2

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. W. W. McConnell


He obtained his early education in the common schools of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, later attending Grove City College and Edinburg State Normal, after which he taught in Lawrence County for a period of six years. He read medicine for eighteen months with Dr. Sproull of Plain Grove, after which he entered Western Reserve University of Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in March, 1888. In May of that same year he came to Harrisville and took up the work of Dr. O. P. Pisor and after a period of ten years entered Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he graduated May, 1898. He returned to Harrisville and resumed his practice of medicine and rapidly worked his way up in the profession. He also took a summer course at Philadelphia later. Dr. McConnell was a member of the Butler County Medical Society. He was a director in the First National Bank at Harrisville and was a stockholder of the Butler County National Bank. He was a Democrat in politics and, religiously, was a member of the United Presbyterian Church.

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Sources


1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1071, 1201.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1071.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1201.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 976.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1310.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1198.


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