Dr. William Lightcap Hunter and Rachel McMasters
Husband Dr. William Lightcap Hunter 1
Born: 8 Feb 1844 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 1 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: James Hunter ( - ) 1 Mother: Annice Lightcap ( - ) 1
Marriage: 1870 1
Wife Rachel McMasters 1
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Father: John McMasters ( - ) 2 Mother: Leonora Markle ( - ) 2
Children
1 F Leonora Hunter 1
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2 F Annice Gale Hunter 1
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. William Lightcap Hunter
After attending the academy at Elder's Ridge, he read medicine with Dr. James McConaughy at Mt. Pleasant [Westmoreland County?], Pennsylvania, and at the age of twenty-four entered on a course in chemistry and toxicology at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. After completing that course he attended Dr. Richardson's school of pharmacy in Philadelphia, and then entered Jefferson Medical College of the latter city, from which he graduated in 1868. In the spring of the same year he began to practice in Turtle Creek, Allegheny County, and developed a large and lucrative patronage. The doctor also established a fine livery-stable for the benefit of his townsmen. With his family he was associated with the U. P. Church. Politically he was a republican.
1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 421.
2
—, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 411.
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