Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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Dr. James Thompson Mahon and Eliza Ellen Thompson




Husband Dr. James Thompson Mahon 1

           Born: 8 Dec 1841 - near Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1 Feb 1895 - Lewistown, Mifflin Co, PA 1
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         Father: Dr. David D. Mahon (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Martha S. Cochran (      -      ) 1


       Marriage: 6 Mar 1873 1



Wife Eliza Ellen Thompson 1

           Born: 7 Nov 1843 - Mexico, Juniata Co, PA 1
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         Father: Charles Allen Thompson (1811-1854) 2 3
         Mother: Mary Ann Cochran (1815-1887) 2 3




Children

• They had no children.


General Notes: Husband - Dr. James Thompson Mahon


He graduated with honors from the Baltimore Medical College (University of Maryland) in 1864 and located first in Newton Hamilton, Pennsylvania, where his father was a practicing physician. In 1885 he moved to Lewistown, Mifflin County. He served as assistant surgeon of the 187th Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War and was surgeon for Colonel Huling Post of Lewistown, for several years. For 27 years he was physician for the Penn. R. R. and was a member of the U. S. Pension Board of Examining Surgeons in Mifflin County.

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Sources


1 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 93.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 1272.

3 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 90.


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