Dr. Ira Condit Feather and Hannah C. L. Bell

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Husband Dr. Ira Condit Feather ^{1 2}

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           Born: 7 Aug 1829 - Perry Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1
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           Died: 18 Nov 1887 3
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         Father: John Feather (1806-1878) 1
         Mother: Phoebe Condit (      -Aft 1888) 4

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       Marriage: 1869 3

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   Other Spouse: Josephine Coulter (      -1867) 2 3 - 27 Oct 1853 3

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Wife Hannah C. L. Bell ^{5 6}

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         Father: William Bell (Cir 1782/1788-1878) 7
         Mother: Lavina Boylan (Abt 1812-1875) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Ira Condit Feather

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Ever a deep, diligent and thoughtful student, Ira C. Feather made the best possible use of early educational means-first with a view of the ministry in the Presbyterian Church, but afterward studied and practiced medicine under the instructions of Dr. Cossitt, of Green­ville, PA.
In 1861 Dr. Feather joined Company K, Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers, but was after­ward transferred as regimental surgeon of the Seventy-second New York Infantry Volunteers. In 1862 he was detailed to act as surgeon-general of the hospitals at Yorktown, Va. It was at this time he suffered from yellow fever for first time, from which so few northern men recover; in 1865 he sent north for his family, he still serving as medical director of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, besides having a large private practice. His health being wrecked ever since the war, he returned north in 1868. In June, 1875, Dr. Feather commenced the practice of his profession in Sandy Lake, PA, where he remained until death. Dr. Feather was burnt out on February 26, 1880, without insurance, and in 1882 built the three-story building used as a dwelling until the completion of the building known as Dr. Feather's Block, corner of Main and Lacock Streets, constructed of stone, brick and marble. In 1882 he suffered a stroke of paraphlegia, caused by the disabilities and injuries sustained while in the military service. On November 11, 1887, he was again taken sick from the same cause, but his power of resistance had decreased as his disease had increased, and death at the age of fifty-eight years. [HMC 1888, 1054]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1053.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 680.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1054.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1121.

5 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1054, 1095.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1013.

7 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1012, 1090.