W. H. Brown, M.D. and Irene M. Gibbons
Husband W. H. Brown, M.D. 1
Born: 21 Jun 1868 - Uniontown, Carroll Co, MD 1 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: John A. Brown (Abt 1832-1895) 1 Mother: Mary E. Engler ( -Aft 1906) 1
Marriage: 1902 2
Wife Irene M. Gibbons 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Joseph Gibbons ( - ) 2 Mother: Mary Scott ( - ) 2
Children
General Notes: Husband - W. H. Brown, M.D.
Reared in his parent's home, he supplemented his early educational privileges by study in the Western Maryland College, at Westminster, Maryland, and when eighteen years of age he began reading medicine under Dr. T. J. Shreeve, of Uniontown, Maryland, with whom he remained for a year, and in the autumn of 1886 he matriculated in the University of Maryland, being graduated from the medical department in the spring of 1889. He located for practice in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, where he remained for three and a half years, and then removed to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but after a brief time he went to Washington, D. C., where he was located for two years. In the winter of 1895 he came to Youngwood, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he built up a large and lucrative practice.
He belonged to Woodland Lodge, No. 210, K. P., of Youngwood; Painterville Lodge, J. O. U. A. M., of New Stanton; and the Youngwood Lodge of the Grand Fraternity. In the line of his profession he was connected with the Westmoreland County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was one of its trustees. When the borough of Youngwood was organized, he was elected a member of the town council.
1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 197.
2
John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 198.
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