Dr. Robert Argyle Sphar and Sadie A. Eaton
Husband Dr. Robert Argyle Sphar 1 2 3
Born: 10 Mar 1881 - Roscoe, Washington Co, PA 2 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Henry Clay Sphar (1844-Aft 1927) 2 3 4 5 6 Mother: Hannah Rebecca McElhiney (1844-Aft 1927) 1 3 6 7
Marriage: 1 Oct 1919 - Mt. Pleasant, Washington Co, PA 2 3
Wife Sadie A. Eaton 2 3
Born: 18 Feb 1892 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: James H. Eaton ( -Bef 1906) 2 3 Mother: Sadie M. Ramsay (1873-Aft 1906) 2 3 8
Children
1 M Robert E. Sphar 2 3
Born: 2 Oct 1922 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
2 F Elizabeth Ann Sphar 3
Born: 23 Dec 1927 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
3 F Helen Sphar 3
Born: 14 May 1929 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
4 M William Sphar 3
Born: 6 Jun 1932 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Dr. Robert Argyle Sphar
He attended the public schools of Roscoe, Pennsylvania, and the California State Normal School at California, Pennsylvania. He later enrolled at the Medico Chirurgical College, Department of Pharmacy, and received a Graduate in Pharmacy degree in 1903. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1910, and immediately afterwards, established a practice in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. For over fifteen years he was extensively engaged in industrial surgery, and was division surgeon for the H. C. Frick Coke Company, W. J. Rainey Coal Company and J. H. Hillman Coal and Coke Company.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and an active Republican, and was connected with the Washington County, and Pennsylvania State Medical societies, and the American Medical Association. He was affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, and the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and attained the Thirty-second Degree of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He was also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Nemacolin Country Club.
General Notes: Wife - Sadie A. Eaton
from Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA
1 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1030.
2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 315.
3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 189.
4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1071.
5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1033.
6 Robert Phillips, Descendants of William Rodgers and Sarah E. Sphar (Unpublished genealogy research, Dec 2016).
7 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 765.
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John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 335.
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