WAID, John Mathews

Posted October 6th, 2008 by Crawford County
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John Mathews Waid was born in Steuben township, this county, August 22, 1859, the fifth child of John and Vesta A. Waid. His father is one of the prominent citizens of the county. Our subject was brought up on a farm, while enjoying good advantages at school during boyhood. In 1881 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. A. Logan in Woodcock borough, and continued there five years, during which time he took two courses of lectures in the medical department of the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio, and a course at the Western University in this state, finally receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Since 1889 he has practiced his chosen profession at Titusville.

August 22, 1888, he was united in marriage with Miss Lulu E., daughter of Cyrus Root, of Riceville, Pennsylvania, and they have one child, a son.

Our county and its people: a historical and memorial record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania by Samuel P. Bates, 1899, page 686.
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