Bios: DAGGETTE, Dr Alvin St Clair: Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
      
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   Dr Alvin St Clair Daggette, whose offices are located at 400 South Craig Street
   is one of the best known and most popular physicians in the city of Pittsburgh.
   His ancestors were among the first settlers of Allegheny county, Penna. His
   paternal great grandfather, John Daggette, served from 1775 to 1782 in the
   American army during the war of the Revolution, beign several times discharged
   but each time re-enlisting. During his last enlistment from June to December
   1782, he was a sergeant under Captain Sexton and Col Walbridge. After the war
   he settled in Erie county, Penna, having formerly been a citizen of Vermont.
   His son married Rachel Morton, whose great uncle Thomas Morton settled upon a
   tract of land in 1767 in what is now Buena Vista in Allegheny county and
   received a patent for it in 1771. Upon his death, this farm passed to his
   nephew Allen Morton, the father of Rachel, who was the grandmother of Dr
   Daggette, and who inherited the farm at the death of her father. It was upon
   the farm that Dr Alvin S Daggette was born March 17, 1856. His parents were
   John Morton Daggette and Mary (McColly) Kelly Daggette, who had inherited the
   old Morton homestead. Dr Daggette is the second of a family of six children.
   The others in the order of their ages were: Mary Ra Laura; Olive T who died in
   1883; Kate Emma, wife of Noah Rhodes, cashier of the Smithton Bank at Smithton,
   Penna; Bertie Wallace, who with the eldest daughter still lives upon the
   homestead; and Frank Summerfield, a member of the W W McBride paper comany of
   Pittsburg. Dr Daggette received his early education in the common schools of
   Allegheny county. This was supplemented by a course in the state normal school
   at Indiana, Penna, after which he taught in the schools of his native township
   for several years. Deciding to enter the medical profession, he atteneded the
   Western Reserve medical school at Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from the
   medical department of that institution March 2, 1881.
   
   After graduating he first located at Shaner Station, Westmoreland county,
   Penna, where he was engaged in general practice until November, 1886, when he
   removed to Pittsburgh. In his new location he soon succeeded in establishing a
   large practice and he is one of the most popular family physicians in the
   city.His work is of a general character including all branches of medicine and
   surgery. He is a member of the Allegheny county and Pennsylvania state medical
   societies; the Academy of sciences and art; and art society of Pittsburg; the
   American association for the advancement of science; and is president of the
   Western Reserve alumni association of Western Pennsylvania. He is also member
   and deacon of the Bellefield Presbyterian church of Pittsburgh. Dr Daggette was
   married May 7, 1885, to Miss Fannie Flotilla Prescott of Youghiogheny,
   Westmoreland county, and they have one child, William Morton Clair Daggette.
   While living at Shaner Station in Westmoreland county, Dr Daggette served on
   the school board of Sewickley, and was also treasurer of the school funds. He
   was also surgeon for the B & O Railroad relief association. In all of these
   positions he won the confidence of his employers because he was always
   attentive to their interests and prompt in the discharge of his duties. The
   same is true of his private patients. They know that he can always be trusted
   to come to their relief on short notice and his popularity is due as much to
   his readiness to respond to the call of suffering as to his thorough knowledge
   of the science of medicine.
   
   Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal and genealogical. Vol. 1 
   pg. 179