Husband Dr. Anthony I. Hoon, M.D. 1 2 3
Born: 17 May 1856 - Butler Co, PA 2
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Father: Anthony Hoon (1817-1900) 2 4 5 6
Mother: Mary Ann Beatty (1824-1897) 2 5
Marriage: 30 Nov 1882 7
Wife Nettie M. Wilson 7
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Father: William Wilson ( - ) 7
Mother: Mary Jane McCrea ( - ) 7
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1 F Mabel Hoon 7
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2 F Marie Hoon 7
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3 F Helen Violet Hoon 7
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Anthony I. Hoon, M.D.
He remained at home until the age of seventeen, after which he attended school successively in Butler, Pittsburgh and Allegheny City. He then taught school two years in Chartiers, when he decided to study a profession. He pursued his classical training at Westminster College. He then read medicine in the office of Drs. Dickson, the noted surgeons of Pittsburgh; attended his first course of lectures in the medical department of Michigan University, and his second course in the medical department of the University of the City of New York, where he was graduated with honorable mention. He was also for one year resident physician in the Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began private practice in Wilmington, Vermont, where he remained over two years, and removed to Mercer, Pennsylvania, in 1883, where he secured a large patronage. He and his wife were members of the Second United Presbyterian Church of Mercer.
He was born on the old family farm in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and passed his boyhood upon it, his preliminary education being received in Butler, Pittsburgh and at Westminster College. He pursued his medical studies at Michigan University and in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, being graduated from the latter institution. During his student life he taught school two years in Sheridan, now a ward of greater Pittsburgh, and for one year was resident physician in the Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh. He opened his first office in Wilmington, Vermont, March 24, 1881, and removed to Mercer, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1883, where he remained many years.
Dr. Hoon could not be true to his education and family traditions without being progressive and fearless. He was also popular, by virtue of his long-tried ability as a physician and surgeon, and because of his substantial qualities as a citizen. He was a diligent and methodical student, a firm believer in the nobility and splendid progress of his profession, and belonged to the Mercer County and the State Medical Societies, as well as the American Medical Association. As an evidence of his progressiveness it should be noted that it took his confreres twenty years to arrive at his position in regard to consultations with physicians of other schools, a position which though later confirmed correct, cost him something to maintain.
Dr. Hoon has also taken an advanced and broad-minded view in civic affairs and was a champion of progress, based strictly on honesty and honor. Along these lines, as well as on sanitary subjects, he wrote much for the local press; so that his fellow citizens always knew where to find him in the discussion of any vital issue. He had a large and well selected medical library, which he kept modern by the annual addition of books. Although ever a medical student, he pursued, by way of a recreation, the study of Reformation History and Calvinistic Literature, on which subjects he collected several hundred volumes. His agents ransacked the book shelves of the large American cities, as well as Edinburgh, Scotland, in making this collection, which was quite valuable both from a bibliological and historical standpoint.
General Notes: Wife - Nettie M. Wilson
from Allegheny City, PA