Edward P. Weddell, M.D. and [Unk] Randall

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Husband Edward P. Weddell, M.D. ¹

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            AKA: Dr. Edward P. Weddel,2 Dr. Edward P. Weddle 3
           Born: 5 Jun 1856 - Buena Vista, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: James Weddle (1822-1901) 1 4
         Mother: Sarah Ann Parker (      -1874) 1 2 5

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       Marriage: 3 Apr 1884 2

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Wife [Unk] Randall ²

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General Notes: Husband - Edward P. Weddell, M.D.

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At six years of age he removed from Buena Vista to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and was reared to man's estate on a farm. He attended the common school at Mars Hill, spent three years in Waynesburg college, Greene County, and took two courses in the Indiana State Normal school. Equipping himself with a fine literary education and with laudable ambition to succeed in the world, he began life alone. He sought no fine position but accepted the first work that offered to his hand and engaged in teaching in the common schools. He taught in the schools of Westmoreland County for three years and in those of Fayette County for two years, and also served as principal of the Scottdale schools for two years. These few years of teaching, while they afforded him employment also gave him time to calmly survey the different fields of labor open to ambitious seekers upon the stage of life and to carefully select a future vocation consonant to his inclination and congenial to his wishes, and he made choice of the profession of medicine. In 1879 he commenced the prosecution of his medical studies under the preceptorship of Dr. John D. Milligan, of Madison, Pennsylvania, attended lectures in the medical department of the Western Reserve University of Cleveland, Ohio, and was graduated February 27, 1884. In a short time after his graduation Dr. Weddel opened an office at Painterville, Westmoreland County, where he secured and enjoyed a good practice until 1886 when he removed to Scottdale and there engaged in the practice of his profession.
He was a member of Fountain Lodge, No. 443, Knights of Pythias, which was chartered prior to 1882. He was president of the Scottdale school board. He was a member of the State Medical society and vice-president of the Westmoreland County Medical society which was organized November 15, 1859, at Greensburg.
His medical library was one of the finest and most carefully selected to be found in the county. It not only contained the standard authors of medical science but was constantly increased by additions of the latest words on medicine and surgery, while his literary library was large and well-filled with the choicest works of prose and poetry selected from the authors of Greece and Rome and the literature of England, America and the civilized nations of the world. Dr. Weddel devoted his entire time to his profession and had a large and remunerative practice that was rapidly increasing.

A Republican in politics, he served the city of Scottdale as a member of the Board of Education, was United States Pension Examiner beginning in 1898, and in 1906 was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. In 1908 he was reelected to the House.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 252.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 279.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 248.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 159, 247.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 159, 248.