Dr. Lauren Clay Thomas and Martha Elizabeth Scott

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Husband Dr. Lauren Clay Thomas ¹

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           Born: 16 Mar 1860 - Pine Grove Mills, Centre Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Elias Thomas (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Lucy Emerick (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 22 Apr 1880 3

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Wife Martha Elizabeth Scott ³

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         Father: George Scott (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Bell (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Lucy Elizabeth Thomas ³

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         Spouse: Leo C. Gibson (      -      ) 3

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2 M Walter Scott Thomas ³

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Lauren Clay Thomas

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He obtained his early and preparatory education under the instruction of his honored father, and when the time came to select a profession chose medicine. He prepared at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, and there received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at graduation, class of 1887. He began general practice in Bradenville, Pennsylvania, the same year, and there continued until 1890, and was also special surgeon in the employ of several important coal mining corporations having mines in that section. In 1890 he located in Latrobe, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he practiced for many years, confining himself to surgical cases and diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He made preparation for special practice by a long course of study, and by post-graduate courses at eye, ear, nose and throat clinics at Polyclinic Hospital, Wills Eye Hospital, the Mayo Clinics, Rochester, and at important clinics in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other medical centers. He was a member of the Westmoreland County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical and American Medical associations.
He also devoted considerable time to the public service, and was one of the leaders of the Republican party in Westmoreland County. For a decade he was a member of the county central committee, was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Assembly in 1901-02, and from 1909 until January, 1916, was recorder of deeds for Westmoreland County. He also served for many years as a member of Latrobe Board of Education. He was a member of the Masonic order, holding the thirty-second degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, and in religious faith was a Presbyterian. He was fond of the sports of the open, especially hunting and fishing, but his love of study, professional and historical, marked him as the student above all else.
He was among the first to tender his services to the government when the first war with Germany threatened. He enlisted in the Medical Reserve Corps, United States Army, was commissioned a first lieutenant, March 25, 1917, and was called into active service, June 27, 1917, and on July 16, 1917, was commissioned captain, serving at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and later in Federal recruiting service in northern Indiana, having to do with the federalization of the National Guard of Indiana. On August 21, 1917, he was transferred to Columbus Barracks, Columbus, Ohio, to make examinations for the regular army. On September 1, 1917, he was ordered to Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia, for duty as special examiner in oto-laryngology. He continued in that service until December 7, when his health having broken down, he was honorably discharged from the service and returned to Latrobe again to take up his professional practice.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 136.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 137.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 138.