Dr. John P. Hosack and Margaret G. Forker

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Husband Dr. John P. Hosack ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Feb 1822 - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA 1
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           Died: 16 Nov 1894 2
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         Father: Henry Hosack (      -1861) 1 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Paxton (      -1858) 2 3

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Margaret G. Forker ^{3 4 5}

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           Born: 1826 - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA 4
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           Died: 16 Apr 1896 4
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         Father: Gen. John Forker (1800-1865) 4 6 7
         Mother: Isabella Graham (1801-1890) 4 5 8

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Children

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1 M John Forker Hosack ^{3 4}

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           Born: 7 Sep 1847 - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA 3
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           Died: 30 Nov 1907 4
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         Spouse: Caroline B. "Carrie" Smith (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 1868 4

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2 M Henry Hosack ³

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           Born: 28 Feb 1850 3
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           Died: 22 Feb 1851 3
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Jane Hosack ³

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           Born: 22 Jan 1852 3
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           Died: Aft 1915
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         Spouse: Dr. W. E. Slemmons (      -      ) 4

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4 F Mary Hosack ³

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           Born: 16 Aug 1856 3
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           Died: Aft 1915
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5 M George Z. Hosack ^{3 4 9}

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           Born: 8 Jul 1858 3
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         Spouse: Sadie E. Cubbage (      -      ) 9
           Marr: 1883 9

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6 F Isabella Hosack ³

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           Born: 4 Jul 1864 3
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. John P. Hosack

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He attended a pay-school until he was twelve years of age, when he entered the store of Judge D. T. Porter, of Mercer, PA, as a clerk, where he continued for some time. He was very attentive to his books at nights, and studied Latin under instruction of William H. Scott, an attorney at Mercer. He subse­quently studied under D. H. A. McLean, and Greek, Latin and French under Hon. Samuel Griffith. After a period at Cannonsburg, prosecuting his studies in Jefferson College, he began the study of medicine in 1843 with Dr. James Magoffin, of Mercer, and attended the Cleveland Medical College, making the trip to that city by stage in 1845, and returning home in March, 1846, by means of a sled. He at once entered upon the practice of his profession in Harrisville, Butler County, and in 1848 attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He then came to Mercer. He did much to help build up the town and surrounding country, having been instrumental in helping to establish the public schools of Mercer and to get the railroads to the county seat. After passing a satisfactory examination at Harrisburg, under Prof. H. H. Smith, surgeon general of Pennsylvania, he responded to the call of his country, and went out as a surgeon in the One Hundred and First Pennsylvania Volunteers. In November, 1861, he went with Hartranft in the Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, with the promise that he would be sent back to the One Hundred and First Regiment, but stayed with the Fifty-first until after the surrender of Vicksburg, when he resigned, thinking that the war was virtually ended, and came home. He was a Democrat at the breaking out of the war, when he became a strong Republican. He was one of the early members of the Mercer County Medical Society. He and his wife were members of the Second United Presbyterian Church of Mercer. [HMC 1888, 670]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 669.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1093.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 670.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1094.

5 Vilena Mae Forker Holliker, "Forker Genealogy" (San Antonio, TX: privately printed, 1976), Pg 2.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 724.

7 Vilena Mae Forker Holliker, "Forker Genealogy" (San Antonio, TX: privately printed, 1976), Pg 1.

8 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 666.

9 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 500.