Husband Dr. Robert Van Valzah Wilson, M.D. 1 2 3 4
Born: Oct 1828 - Spring Mills, Gregg Twp, Centre Co, PA 1 3 5
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Died: 13 Feb 1878 - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA 1 5
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Father: Peter Wilson (1798-1868) 1 4
Mother: Elizabeth Van Valzah ( - ) 1
Marriage: 1852 2 6
Wife Carrie Smith 5 6
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Father: Josiah W. Smith, Esq. ( - ) 5
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1 M Smith V. Wilson 6
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Died: Aft 1911
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Spouse: Martha L. Thompson ( - ) 6
General Notes: Husband - Dr. Robert Van Valzah Wilson, M.D.
He studied medicine with his cousin, Dr. R. F. Van Valzah, and graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1849. He first settled in Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and then in Clearfield in 1850. He was a man of more than ordinary attainments, and as a practitioner he was eminently successful. He obeyed promptly the summons of the poor and the rich alike. Sacrificing personal comfort and unselfishly devoting himself to his patients, he spent the short years of his life ministering to the afflicted often without hope of reward. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Clearfield Medical Society.
He died after a long illness.
He and his wife had seven children.
No better estimate of his worth and attainments can be produced than by the obituary sketch written soon after his decease, by his near friend, ex-Governor William Bigler:
"Dr. Wilson ranked with the first men in this section of the State as a man of talent, intelligence and polite accomplishments. In his profession he had attained to marked eminence, and was held in the highest esteem by the medical profession, not only in this locality, but in many parts of the State, and especially by such eminent men as Drs. Gross and Pancost, of Philadelphia. This high appreciation was manifested mainly by the frequent calls that were made upon him for his opinion and advice in cases of rare difficulty in the line of his profession."
"At the time of his death he was a member of the Geological Commission, created by an act of the Legislature, to perfect the geological survey of the State."
"The opinion he expressed on any question of medicine, science, morals, or politics, was strictly his own. Treating the views of others with respect, he followed none. He was a close reader and thinker, and made out his own conclusions; and, while he was not wanting in political ambition, he could not restrain his contempt for the low means too often resorted to by many to gain political preferment. He made no pretension as a public speaker, and yet in the school, and other addresses which he occasionally delivered, he showed a pure taste and liberal reading. In short, he was a man of clear, keen, intellect, and of very handsome attainments in all departments of life. In his intercourse among men, his friendships were unfaltering, while his aversions were exceedingly sturdy; but, on the whole, his heart was full of generosity and kindness."