Dr. James L. Proper, M.D. and Lida Titus

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Husband Dr. James L. Proper, M.D. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Mar 1835 - Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 2
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           Died: 29 May 1898 3
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         Father: Daniel Proper (cal 1796-1870) 4
         Mother: Margurite Archer (1797-1851) 5

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       Marriage: 1873 3

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   Other Spouse: Malinda Kemerer (      -      ) 3

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Wife Lida Titus ³

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. James L. Proper, M.D.

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He spent his youth at school and on a farm until the age of twenty-one; and besides the common schools he attended the academy at Cooperstown and two terms at Kinsmantown, Ohio. He began the study of anatomy under Dr. Jennings of Titusville, and Dr. Allen of Kinsmantown; but a later preceptor was Dr. Scudder of Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended the Eclectic Medical Institute, where he graduated with the degree of M. D., and he began the practice of medicine in 1861, in Clarksville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, where he continued until 1872, when he came to Titusville and practiced until his last sickness. In his death the poor lost a friend. A sick call from people whom he knew to be destitute of means received from him the same prompt response as from those possessing abundance, even supplying also his impecunious patients with medicine from his own store and driving miles into the country, often over rough roads and in inclement weather, to administer medical treatment to persons who were practically paupers. [HCC 1899, 728]

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1054.

2 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 728.

3 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 729.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 598, 1053.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1053.