Dr. Beriah Edwin Mossman, M.D. and Emma Elizabeth Hilands

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Husband Dr. Beriah Edwin Mossman, M.D. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 27 Nov 1840 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 3
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         Father: Robert Gillis Mossman (1795-1847) 1 4
         Mother: Margaret "Peggy" Christy (      -1865) 4 5

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       Marriage: 5 Sep 1872 6

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Wife Emma Elizabeth Hilands ^{2 6}

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         Father: Reuben V. Hilands (      -      ) 6
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Children

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1 F Helen Mossman ²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Dr. Beriah Edwin Mossman, Jr. ^{2 3 6}

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           Born:  - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA
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3 F Nana Marie Mossman ^{2 6}

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         Spouse: C. Berton Roueche (      -      ) 2

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4 F Margaret Christy Mossman ²

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            AKA: Margie B. Mossman 6
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         Spouse: James Franklin Fox (      -      ) 2

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5 F Hazel Elizabeth Mossman ^{2 6}

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6 M Robert Gillis Mossman ²

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            AKA: Roy G. Mossman 6
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Beriah Edwin Mossman, M.D.

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He received a thorough classical and scientific education at the Greenville Academy, and during vacations was under private tutorship. He began the study of medicine in the office of his brother-in-law, the late Dr. R. E. Breiner, in Greenville, in the year 1861; entered the Cleveland Medical College in 1862, from which institution he graduated at the head of his class, March 1, 1864. Returning to Greenville he commenced the practice of medicine on the 9th of the same month, in company with his brother-in-law, with whom he remained until March, 1868, when he entered an office by himself. In 1874 he became associated with Dr. H. D. La. Cossitt, with whom he remained until the death of Dr. Cossitt, which occurred March 1, 1877. After a number of years' practice he moved his family to Philadelphia, and regularly entered the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he graduated with first honors in March, 1879. He also received the diploma of the Philadelphia Lying-in Charity, March 1, 1879, an institution devoted exclusively to obstetrics and the diseases of females. He then returned to Greenville and engaged in the active practice of his profession, devoting special attention to obstetrics and diseases of women, in which specialty he has built up a large practice. He was for many years the surgeon of the A. & G. W. and S. & A. Railroads, and has successfully performed all the capital operations. In 1870 he became a member of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and in 1874 of the American Medical Association. He was a member of the Mercer County Medical Society, and was one of the members who, by zeal and energy and love for the profession, established that organization. For many years he was its secretary, and on January 9, 1877, was elected president. He contributed a number of valuable articles to the "transactions" of the State society, and various other medical journals, and was a contributor to the American Journal of Obstetrics. The Doctor was a prominent Mason, and was H. P. of Mound Royal Arch Chapter, a member of Eureka Lodge F. & A. M., North Western Commandery K. T., and a member of Pennsylvania Consistory Scottish Rite Masonry, in which order he has received the thirty-second degree. Politically Dr. Mossman was an unswerving Democrat, and in the spring of 1888 came within three votes of being elected burgess of Greenville, which usually gave a large Republican majority. The Doctor was United States examining surgeon for pensions for the district, and one of Mercer County's best known physicians. [HMC 1888, 819]

After concluding his attendance at the Greenville Academy, Dr. Mossman pursued the regular course at the Western Reserve Medical College, going from thence to the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was first honor man of the first class in the advanced curriculum, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1879. For more than thirty years thereafter he practiced his profession in Greenville. For many years he was the surgeon of the Erie and the Bessemer Railroads, and for four years (1885-89) he served as United States Pension Examiner. He was Medical Examiner for several of the most prominent life insurance companies. Dr. Mossman was president of the Mercer County Medical Society, and also a member of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the American Medical Association; was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution; a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Pennsylvania Consistory of Pittsburgh; past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 145. In politics he was a Democrat. [HMC 1909, 400]

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 819.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 400.

3 Bertha Mossman Kaler, Concerning the Family of Mossman (Self-published, ~1912(?)), Pg 36.

4 Bertha Mossman Kaler, Concerning the Family of Mossman (Self-published, ~1912(?)), Pg 35.

5 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1145.

6 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 820.