Dr. James Bissett Murdoch and Jane Pettibone

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Husband Dr. James Bissett Murdoch ¹

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            AKA: James B. Murdock 2
           Born: 16 Oct 1830 - Glasgow, Scotland 1
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           Died: 29 Oct 1896 - ? Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Rev. David Murdoch, D.D. (      -      ) 1
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       Marriage: 1861 3

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   Other Spouse: Jane Adeline "Jennie" Moorhead (1844-      ) 1 2 - 24 Oct 1867 2

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Wife Jane Pettibone ³

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Children

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1 M [Unk] Murdoch ³

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. James Bissett Murdoch

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He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and came to America with his parents as a child. He passed his childhood in Bath, Canada, in Ballston Spa, New York, and in Catskill, New York. Later he lived in Elmira, New York, and there began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. William W. Wey of that city, later becoming a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he graduated in 1854. He was for a time in the Bellevue Hospital of New York City and then became surgeon on the steamer "North Star" of the Vanderbilt Line, plying between New York and Havre, France. In 1856, two years after his graduation, he began the practice of his profession in Oswego, New York, and remained there until 1872, when he moved to Pittsburgh, and was in active practice there until his death. During the Civil War, Dr. Murdoch was appointed assistant regimental surgeon and was later promoted to the position of surgeon-general of his brigade, and saw active service at the battles of Bull Run, Falmouth, South Mountain, Antietam and Chancellorsville. After his return to Oswego he was appointed surgeon of the Board of Enrollment of the Twenty-second District of New York, and held this post until the end of the war. Dr. Murdoch was for years president of the Oswego County Medical Society, and after his removal to Pittsburgh he served as president of the Allegheny County Medical Society, in 1889 was made president of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and also served as president of the American Association of Railroad Surgeons. Shortly after he went to Pittsburgh he became a member of the surgical staff of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, and served as such until his death. From January 1, 1876, he was company surgeon to the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was one of the founders and moving spirits of the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, where he served as dean of the faculty and clinical professor of operative surgery for many years. In addition to these many responsibilities, Dr. Murdoch found time for many important contributions to medical literature, among which were "Torsion of the Arteries for the Arrest of Hemorrhage," "Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations," "Amputation of the Foot" and "Amputation at the Hip Joint."

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Pettibone

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from Oswego, Oswego Co, NY

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 74.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 45.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 75.