John D. Greaves, M.D. and Laura Lawrence

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Husband John D. Greaves, M.D. ¹

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           Born: 12 Nov 1877 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 1
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         Father: William A. Greaves (      -Bef 1913) 1 2
         Mother: Gertrude Dale (      -Aft 1913) 1 3

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       Marriage: 12 Oct 1902 1

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Wife Laura Lawrence ^{1 4}

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         Father: William Lawrence (1840-      ) 4
         Mother: Hannah S. McBride (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M William Greaves ¹

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           Born: 14 Jul 1904 1
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2 F Gertrude Greaves ¹

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           Born: 9 May 1907 1
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3 M John Greaves ¹

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           Born: 9 Jan 1911 1
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4 M Richard Greaves ¹

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           Born: 23 Jun 1916 1
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General Notes: Husband - John D. Greaves, M.D.

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He was born at Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania, and passed the years of his childhood and early youth there. It was at Warren also that he acquired the elementary portion of his education, attending the local public schools for this purpose, and finally graduating from the Warren High School in 1896. After completing his studies at this institution, where he was prepared for college, he matriculated in the same year at the University of Pennsylvania, and entered the medical school there. Here after establishing an excellent record for scholarship, he was graduated with the class of 1900. He supplemented his theoretical studies by spending the summer of 1900 at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, where he gained the requisite practical experience for the carrying on of his professional work. Dr. Greaves then removed to Tionesta, Pennsylvania, where he practiced for about eighteen months. His attention was drawn during the latter part of this period to the growing progressive community of New Alexandria, Westmoreland County, and in the year 1903 he removed to that place. There he established himself in the practice of his profession and remained thus engaged for well over a decade. His unusual ability as a diagnostician, combined with a very complete knowledge of therapeutics, and a personality which was attractive in the sick room, gave Dr. Greaves a very well deserved popularity and he was generally recognized as one of the leaders of his profession thereabouts. He was a member of the County, State and National Medical societies. He was also a member of the Alumni Association of the University of Pennsylvania, and during his years of study at that institution became affiliated with the Gamma Delta fraternity.
He and his family were Presbyterians in religious belief and attended that church at New Alexandria. He was a Republican in politics.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 223.

2 Editor, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 927.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 366.

4 Editor, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 936.