Dr. Joseph Taylor Shepler and Ruth A. Thompson

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Husband Dr. Joseph Taylor Shepler ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 20 Mar 1847 - Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 4
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         Father: Samuel Shepler (1814-      ) 2 5 6
         Mother: Eveline Steele (      -1850) 2 5

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       Marriage: 18 Nov 1875 4

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Wife Ruth A. Thompson ⁷

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            AKA: Ruth E. Thompson 3
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         Father: Jasper Markle Thompson (1822/1822-      ) 8 9
         Mother: Eliza Carothers (      -      ) 9 10

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Children

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1 F Eva Thompson Shepler ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Joseph Taylor Shepler

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He was born near Rehoboth Church, in Rostraver township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and was brought up on a farm, attending common and select schools in winter seasons, and a commercial college at Syracuse, New York. Meanwhile he was gratifying as well as he was able a strong desire for general reading, until he became about nineteen years of age, when he entered as clerk a store for general merchandising in Belle Vernon, Fayette County, where he remained somewhat over two years. But being uneasy in his pursuit, and ambitious to excel in something beside merchandising, he went as a student into the office of Dr. S. A. Conklin, of that place, with whom he remained prosecuting his studies with closest attention for two years, and then attended a course of lectures at the Medical Department of the University of Michigan. In the autumn of 1871 he located for the practice of his profession in Dunbar, being the first physician who settled at that place. There he continued, securing a good practice, till September, 1873, when he went to New York City, and attended a course of lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, wherefrom he graduated in March, 1874, and after a period of practice of about two and a half years at Canton, Ohio, returned to Dunbar, where he then followed his profession, enjoying a large and lucrative practice.
In connection with his practice, Dr. Shepler, in partnership with Dr. R. W. Clark (his professional partner also), carried on the drug business. He also engaged somewhat in the purchase and sale of real estate with profitable results, and from 1878 to 1880, both inclusive, he was coroner of Fayette County. He was also the surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for its Southwest Branch, extending from Greensburg to Fairchance. [HFC 1882, 545]

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 351, 544.

2 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 567.

3 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 335.

4 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 545.

5 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 544.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 308.

7 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 351, 545.

8 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 350.

9 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 321.

10 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 351.