James Q. Lemmon, M.D. and Martha Steele

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Husband James Q. Lemmon, M.D. ¹

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           Born: 28 Jan 1852 - Fairfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Nathan W. Lemmon (1820-1903) 1
         Mother: Margaret Quinn (Abt 1823-1891) 1

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       Marriage: 27 Jun 1883 2

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Wife Martha Steele ²

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         Father: James Steele (      -Bef 1906) 3 4 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Hanna (      -      ) 5 6 7

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Children

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1 M George Steele Lemmon ²

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           Born: 18 Oct 1887 2
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2 M Willis Chester Lemmon ²

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           Born: 1 Jul 1890 2
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3 M James Russell Lemmon ²

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           Born: 5 Dec 1894 2
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4 F [Infant] Lemmon ²

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General Notes: Husband - James Q. Lemmon, M.D.

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He passed his youth in Derry township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and early began to contribute his quota to the work of the home farm, while his preliminary educational discipline was secured in the district schools of the neighborhood. At the age of sixteen years he entered the Latrobe high school, where he continued his studies for two years, after which he put his attainments to practical test by teaching two winter terms in the schools of Derry township, meeting with marked success in his pedagogic efforts. He then took a course in Duffs Commercial College, in the city of Pittsburgh, being graduated from that school as a member of the class of 1872. For the ensuing three years he was engaged as a bookkeeper for Murdock, Covode and Company a large mercantile firm, whose head office was at Ligonier, Pennsylvania, where he proved his fitness for the work of an expert accountant, which experience he says was to him a great service in after years, just the discipline every man needs regardless of what he intends to follow for a vocation. He then continued his educational work in the academic sense by entering the Pennsylvania State College, in Center County, where he took a special course in the classics, as well as in the leading branches of mathematical, natural and physical science. He made especially gratifying progress in chemistry, in which he became very proficient in both a theoretical and practical way. In 1878-79 he read medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Jared Y. Dale, a representative physician of Lemont, Center County, and in September, 1879, he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, in the city of Philadelphia, where he attended the three regular and required courses of lectures and also two special courses. He was graduated as a member of the class of 1882 and received his coveted and well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. In his graduation he received second honors in his class, having acquired a grade average of ninety-eight and six tenths out of a possible one hundred, on eleven examinations in a class of one hundred and fifty-nine members, of whom one hundred and seventeen were graduated in 1882. The remaining forty-two failed to meet the requirements in point of efficiency demanded for graduation in that venerable and celebrated institution.
Shortly after his graduation Dr. Lemmon located in Latrobe, where he was actively and successfully established in the practice of his chosen profession, representing a period of nearly a quarter of a century, and that filled with ceaseless toil and endeavors and with zealous regard for and appreciation of the responsibilities of the exacting profession which demands of its devotees all of loyalty and self-abnegation, beside constant study and investigation. He controled a large and representative practice, and was local examiner for six of the leading life insurance companies of the United States. Dr. Lemmon rightfully enjoyed the reputation as a skillful and well qualified physician and surgeon. He was the owner of a very fine medical and literary library, and was recognized as a man of high attainments, while his genial and gracious personality tended to heighten his popularity among all classes. In politics he accorded a stalwart allegiance to the Democracy, and both he and Mrs. Lemmon were valued members of the United Presbyterian church. The family home was one of the most attractive in Latrobe, being located on East Main street and being a fine brick structure, equipped with modern improvements, including a steam-heating plant. The beautiful home was a center of gracious hospitality, and the family was one of much prominence in the best social life of the community. [HWC 1906 II, 286]

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 285.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 287.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 517.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 369.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 734.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 24, 369.

7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 162.