BIO: Charles B. DAUGHERTY, Blair County, PA

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Donehoo, George P., Editor-in-Chief.  Pennsylvania, A History, 
Vol. 3, Biography.  New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 
1926, pages 132-133.
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  DR. CHARLES B. DAUGHERTY is a young physician of Tyrone who has done some 
notable work for municipal and State institutions and who is rapidly rising 
in the medical profession of Blair County.
  He is former pathologist of the Rochester General Hospital, of Rochester, 
Beaver County, and former physician for the State clinics at Rochester and 
Woodlawn.  A World War veteran, he is active in civic affairs of Tyrone, and 
is popular in the borough.  He is well known in sport circles.
  Dr. Daugherty was born in Jeannette, Westmoreland County, May 19, 1894, 
the son of S. Clark Daugherty, a native of the borough of Indiana, Indiana 
County, a successful druggist of Jeannette, and Netting (Bunting) Daugherty, 
a native of Philadelphia.  He first attended the public schools of 
Jeannette, and was graduated from the Jeannette High School.  He then took 
the course of pharmacy at the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy, from which he 
was graduated in 1914 with the degree of graduate in pharmacy.  This he 
supplemented with a general academic course of study in the University of 
Pittsburgh, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 
1916.  Dr. Daugherty obtained his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the 
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1918, and for one year, from 
1918 to 1919, he served on the internes' staff at the Mercy Hospital of 
Pittsburgh.  In 1919 he went to Beaver, the county capital of Beaver County, 
and practiced his profession there until 1924, when he came to Tyrone.  It 
was during his practice in Beaver that Dr. Daugherty was pathologist of the 
Beaver General Hospital and physician for the State clinics at Rochester and 
Woodlawn.  Dr. Daugherty is a member of the Blair County Medical 
Association, the American Medical Association, and the Pennsylvania State 
Medical Society.  He also holds memberships in the Phi Gamma Delta and Nu 
Sigma Nu fraternities, and the American Legion.  He served in the Medical 
Reserve Corps of the United States Army during the World War.  Dr. Daugherty 
attends the Methodist Church of Tyrone, where he maintains offices in the 
Merchants' and Farmers' National Bank Building.  Active in sport circles, he 
is known especially for his skill in riding and swimming, and he devotes 
much time to his hobby - music.