James M. Torrence, M.D. and Ida J. Hildebrand

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Husband James M. Torrence, M.D. ¹

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            AKA: Dr. James M. Torrance,2 3 Dr. J. M. Torrence 4
           Born: 6 Dec 1845 - Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co, PA 1
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         Father: Judge James Torrence (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Caldwell (Abt 1819-1858) 1

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       Marriage: 1880 1

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Wife Ida J. Hildebrand ^{1 2 3 4}

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         Father: Edward P. Hildebrand (1820-1889) 1 2 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Woods (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Helen Torrance ^{3 6}

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            AKA: Helen Torrence 4
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         Spouse: David Blair (1872-      ) 3 7 8
           Marr: 18 Sep 1901 3 4

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2 M James Monroe Torrence ⁶

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3 M Arthur Hildebrand Torrence ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - James M. Torrence, M.D.

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He was reared principally in his native town until he was twelve years of age, when he entered the Messenger printing-office at Indiana, Pennsylvania, and served an apprenticeship of two and one-half years. Before he was sixteen years of age he enlisted in Co. K, 105th reg., Pa. Vols., served as a company clerk for eight months and then entered the ranks. In 1863 he re-enlisted and served until the close of the war. He was in all the battles of his regiment, was present at Lee's surrender and was wounded at Chancellorsville in the left hand and in the side of the head (June 17, 1864) in front of Petersburg. After the war he attended the Iron City Business college and fitted for college at Glade Run and Dayton academies. He entered Mt. Union college, which he left (1869), when in the senior class, to read medicine with his brother-in-law, Dr. J. W. Hughes, of Blairsville. Completing his course of reading, he entered Jefferson Medical college, from which he was graduated in the class of 1873. In the same year he located at Indiana, where he began the practice of his profession.
In politics Dr. Torrence was a republican. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and the Indiana County Medical society.
In politics Dr. Torrence was a republican. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and the Indiana County Medical society.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 170.

2 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 341.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 421.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 144.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 603.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 171.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 680.

8 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 143.