James Ross Ewing, M.D. and Sarah Melissa Orr

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Husband James Ross Ewing, M.D. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 12 Aug 1844 - Young Twp, Indiana Co, PA 2
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         Father: Alexander Ewing (1808-1881) 2 3 4
         Mother: Catharine Eaton McAfee (1811-Aft 1890) 1 2

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       Marriage: 6 Dec 1871 5

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Wife Sarah Melissa Orr ^{1 5}

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           Born: 13 Dec 1846 5
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         Father: Robert Orr (      -Bef 1880) 5
         Mother: Margaret J. Billick (      -Bef 1880) 5

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Children

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1 M John Herbert Ewing ⁵

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           Born: 5 Mar 1873 5
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General Notes: Husband - James Ross Ewing, M.D.

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He attended the common schools, in which he obtained sufficient education to enable him to begin teaching in the winter of 1861-2. The next two years were spent in Pittsburgh, and in August, 1864, he enlisted in Co. G, two hundred and sixth reg., Pa. Vols. (Col. Brady), and served during the remainder of the war. After the war he taught three more winter terms, in the meantime attending the Jacksonville and Louisville academies in Indiana County and reading medicine with Dr. William Jack. In 1870 he graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery and practiced his profession in Indiana County until March, 1875, when he removed to Oakland Cross-Roads, Westmoreland County, remaining there ten years. During the winter of 1884-5 Dr. Ewing took a post-graduate course of six weeks in the Jefferson Medical college at Philadelphia, and in 1885 located at New Salem (Delmont), succeeding Dr. J. A. Fulton. During winter of 1888-9 he took a second post-graduate course of more than four months in the same institution. He then resumed his practice at Delmont. Dr. Ewing was a member of the Presbyterian church and of Geo. A. Cribbs Post, No. 540, G. A. R., and of Carmel Lodge, No. 542, I. O. O. F., of Delmont.

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 367.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 663.

3 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 367, 436.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1047.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 664.