Jeremiah Brown Stubbs and Rachel H. Kirk

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Husband Jeremiah Brown Stubbs ¹

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           Born: 13 Apr 1804 - Fulton Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 1
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           Died: 10 Jul 1862 2
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         Father: Isaac Stubbs (1774-1840) 1
         Mother: Hannah Brown (1778-1825) 1

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       Marriage: 25 Feb 1836 1

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Wife Rachel H. Kirk ¹

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         Father: Timothy Kirk (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M Charles H. Stubbs ²

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           Born: 30 Dec 1839 2
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         Spouse: Sallie B. Haines (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 10 Sep 1868 2

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2 M Cassius E. Stubbs ²

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           Born: 22 Mar 1844 2
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         Spouse: Hannah K. Haines (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Jeremiah Brown Stubbs

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He was born at what was later known as Wick's Mill, in Fulton township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. When he was three years old his parents moved to Harford County, Maryland, having purchased a small property near the "Rocks of Deer Creek." They remained there until 1821, when they returned to Lancaster County to reside on a property jointly inherited by the father and mother. After the return of the family to Pennsylvania, he entered a mercantile establishment in Baltimore. Disliking the business, he returned home in a few months. Receiving encouragement and pecuniary aid from his maternal grandfather, Jeremiah Brown (of whom he always retained a grateful remembrance) he was induced to enter one of the learned professions. With no advantages of a preparatory education, other than instructions received from a kind parent and the limited attainments secured by a few years' attendance at a public school, he commenced the study of medicine in the year 1824. After reading, under direction of Dr. Vincent King, a well-known practitioner of southern Lancaster County, he attended two courses of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and graduated in the class of March 8, 1827. Receiving his medical degree he located at Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland, where he practiced his profession for nine years. While there, Sept. 9, 1827, he was elected a member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Maryland.
Previous to his marriage he purchased the farm of Dr. John K. Sappington, of Little Britain, Lancaster County, to which he removed and continued to practice his profession to the time of his decease, a period of thirty-five years.
In the early days of his medical career his labors to alleviate suffering humanity were unceasing, and at times exceedingly arduous. Possessing a strong constitution and determined will, he was enabled to practice throughout a section of country many miles in extent.
In 1844 he became a member of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society, and afterwards president of that organization. He was elected to represent it in the American Medical Association, and attended its meetings at Boston, 1849; Richmond, 1852; New York, 1853; and Philadelphia, 1855.
In 1847 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania by the Whigs of Lancaster County, and was re-elected in 1848. While a member of the Legislature he took an active part in all subjects pertaining to general education. During his first term he served on the Committee on Education, and the second was placed on the Committee on Banks and Ways and Means. Having served the customary two terms he returned to his farm, his practice, and the instruction of students of medicine. Seven young men read under his direction and graduated. Chirurgery, or that part of the science properly belonging to the surgeons, he did not fancy. His sympathetic temperament forbade it. His province or forte was the duties properly belonging to the physician. Few men were better versed in etiology, or the causes of disease, and in diagnosis he had few equals. In this he was an adept, and hence his skill in practice.
For several years previous to his death Dr. Stubbs had frequent admonitions of a malady that he was well aware would finally prove fatal. On the 4th and 5th of July, 1862, he was attacked with angina pectoris, and died suddenly on the morning of the 10th, aged fifty-eight years.

1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 258.

2 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 259.