Dr. John Bratton Finley Wyant, M.D. and Mary Louise Gilbert

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Husband Dr. John Bratton Finley Wyant, M.D. ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Dr. James B. Finley Wyant,3 Jay B. Finley Wyant 4 5
           Born: 7 Aug 1862 or 1863 - Washington Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1 2 6
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         Father: Adam Wyant (1813-1882) 2 7 8
         Mother: Sophia Bowser (1828-Aft 1922) 2 7 8

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       Marriage: 6 Aug 1885 9 10

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Wife Mary Louise Gilbert ^{5 9 10}

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           Born: 11 May 1864 5 9 10
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         Father: Prof. C. A. Gilbert, A.M. (      -      ) 9 10
         Mother: Sarah Frances Evans (      -      ) 9 10

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Children

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1 F Sophia Irene Wyant ^{9 10 11}

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           Born: 12 Oct 1886 9 10 11
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           Died: 8 Oct 1904 9 11
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         Status: Twin

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2 F Sarah Alleine Wyant ^{9 10 11}

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           Born: 12 Oct 1886 9 10 11
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         Status: Twin

         Spouse: Dr. Edward Ellis Evans (      -      ) 9 10

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3 F Margaret C. Wyant ^{9 10 11}

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           Born: 13 Mar 1890 9 10 11
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         Spouse: William C. Kline (1880-1923) 10 11

         Spouse: Roland B. Simpson (      -      ) 10
           Marr: 1925 10

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4 M Corbin Wayland Wyant ^{9 10 11}

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           Born: 23 Mar 1896 - Templeton, Armstrong Co, PA 9 11
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         Spouse: Eleanor Jones (      -      ) 12
           Marr: 1924 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 12

         Spouse: Velma Turner (      -      ) 12
           Marr: 29 Nov 1930 12

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5 F Mary Louise Wyant ^{9 10 11}

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           Born: 20 Jul 1902 9 10 11
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         Spouse: Daniel E. Caulk (1903-      ) 10

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6 M [Infant] Wyant ⁹

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. John Bratton Finley Wyant, M.D.

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He attended public school in Washington township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and later continued his education in the Reid Institute in Clarion County. After completing his classical course he became assistant principal there for three years, during which time he read medicine with Dr. Frank Ross, of Clarion, with whom he had commenced reading previously, while a student. He then entered the Western Pennsylvania Medical College (later known as the Western University of Pennsylvania, then the University of Pittsburgh), graduating with the degree of M. D. on March 28, 1889. He began practice the same year at Templeton, Armstrong County, where he continued for ten years, in 1899 removing to Kittanning. He was a prominent member of the Armstrong County Medical Society, which he served as secretary beginning in 1901, and he was its president in 1896. He wrote a history of the Society. He was also a member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Socially he was a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge at Kittanning; Blue Lodge No. 244, F. & A. M., of Kittanning, and Royal Arch Masons; the Royal Arcanum, and the Heptasophs.

He attended the public school in Washington Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, a little one-room schoolhouse, later taking his academic course at Reid Institute, in Clarion County. After graduation he taught for three years at Reid Institute, acting also as assistant principal. During that period he took up the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Frank Ross, of Clarion, who served as his first preceptor in the profession. Later came a course at West Penn Medical College, which subsequently became the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, where he was graduated in 1889 a Doctor of Medicine. Beginning his practice of medicine in the same year at Templeton, in Armstrong County, he remained there for ten years, then removed in 1899 to Kittanning, where he carried forward his professional work. He was active in the Armstrong County Medical Society, of which he became secretary in 1901. For fifteen years he was a member of the board of trustees of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania. He also belonged to the American Medical Association. In 1896 he was president of the county society.
In his political views Dr. Wyant was a staunch Republican. For twenty years he was a member of the Board of Education of Kittanning and in 1918 he was made school physician.
He belonged to a number of fraternal groups, including Kittanning Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Royal Arcanum, the Heptasophs, and Kittanning Lodge, No. 244, of the Free and Accepted Masons, in which he was also affiliated with the Royal Arch Chapter. He was a member of the Coudersport Consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and belonged to the Knights of Pythias. He was a member of the Kittanning Kiwanis Club, and worshipped in the faith of the First Baptist Church, of Kittanning. He served as an official board member, as deacon, as financial secretary and as a trustee of his church.

He attended the public schools of his locality, and after he had received whatever advantages they offered, he entered Reid Institute, a Baptist academy at Reidsburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, established before the Civil War. Several circumstances were encountered here of great consequence in his subsequent life. First of all, he remained in this excellent school for a period of five years, except two or three short terms in which he was engaged in teaching; and then, it was during his course in Reid Institute that he registered as a medical student and began a course of preparation for his chosen profession, which he completed at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1889. And lastly, while engaged in teaching in the Institute, immediately after he had graduated there, he married the younger daughter of the principal.
For ten years, Doctor Wyant practiced medicine at Templeton, Pennsylvania, after which he moved to Kittanning. He served as secretary of the Armstrong County Medical Society for some years beginning in 1901; he was a member of Pennsylvania Medical Association; the I. O. O. F. and Royal Arch Masons of Kittanning.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 332, 668.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 392.

3 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 99.

4 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 333.

5 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 141.

6 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 99, 141.

7 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 333, 668.

8 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 137.

9 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 335.

10 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 393.

11 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 142.

12 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 394.