Dr. Samuel L. McCarthy and Lettie Way

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Husband Dr. Samuel L. McCarthy ¹

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           Born: 28 Mar 1844 - Brady Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Roberts McCarthy (Abt 1808-1881) 1 3
         Mother: Eleanor Lane (Abt 1816-Aft 1897) 1 3

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       Marriage: 28 Jun 1867 - McVeytown, Mifflin Co, PA 4

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Wife Lettie Way ⁴

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         Father: Robert Way (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Lucinda [Unk] (      -Aft 1897) 4

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Children

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1 F Ida Blanche McCarthy ⁴

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         Spouse: F. M. McCullough, Esq. (      -      ) 4

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2 M S. Lloyd McCarthy ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Samuel L. McCarthy

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Altoona, Blair Co, PA - a physician

He began teaching at the early age of sixteen, graduated in medicine in 1870, entered at once upon a lucrative practice, and met with marked success. He was not only a practitioner of acknowledged skill and ability, but was well known as a successful business man. Beginning about 1882 he practiced medicine in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he accumulated considerable property. He served as president of the Blair County Medical Association.

He was reared in Brady township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, and attended the common schools of his neighborhood, where he laid a foundation on which he continued to build by his own unaided efforts, until he had acquired a good English education and a fair knowledge of Latin. He began reading medicine in 1867, in the office of Dr. George W. Thompson, then a prominent physician of Mill Creek, but later residing at Mount Union, Huntingdon county. Mr. McCarthy afterwards entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, graduating with the class of 1870. He began practice the same year in Mill Creek, Huntingdon County; he was in continuous and successful practice in the same county for sixteen years, the greater part of which time he spent at Mill Creek. In 1884 he removed to Altoona, and began general practice in that city. Dr. McCarthy was always a diligent student, keeping abreast of the progress in medical science, and making himself familiar with all the new discoveries and theories of the day. He was very successful in his treatment of patients, losing but few cases, and those of the most severe types of disease, throughout his experience of nearly thirty years. His success in cases of typhoid fever and membraneous croup was most note-worthy. The Doctor was a member of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and of the Altoona Academy of Medicine; he was president of the Blair County Medical Society, to which honorable position he was elected in January, 1897.
The political principles of Dr. McCarthy were Republican, but he contented himself with performing the duties of good citizenship.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 87.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 91.

3 Raymond Martin Bell, The Bell Family of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1941), Pg 66.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 92.