BIO: I. S. FLEGAL, M. D., Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 865 - 867.
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  I. S. FLEGAL, M. D., who has been a resident of Karthaus, Pa., for the past 
fourteen years, has conducted a drug store at this place since 1901, although it 
has been his custom to handle and compound his own prescriptions ever since he 
entered into medical practice.  He was born at Shawville, Clearfield county, 
Pa., and is a son of Robert K. and Keturah (Irwin) Flegal.
  The Flegal family is an old one in Pennsylvania and the great-grandparents of 
Dr. Flegal, Valentine and Christina Flegal, lived near Harrisburg, where 
descendants still are numerous.  Good citizenship has marked them all.
  Jacob Flegal, grandfather of Dr. Flegal, was born June 3, 1800, and died April 
1, 1868.  He married Margaret Leonard, born January 23, 1800, who died in June, 
1884.  She was a daughter of Joseph and Eleanor Leonard.  They had the following 
children:  James L., born March 14, 1823, died February 25, 1857; John A. L., 
born April 19, 1825, died October, 1890; Eleanor, born August 7, 1829, died 
March 15, 1848; Robert K., born April 11, 1832, died March 20, 1904; Jacob 
Scott, born August 14, 1834, lives in North Dakota; Mary E., born July 30, 1836, 
lives in Goshen township; Martin S., born April 27, 1838, died from an accident, 
February 1, 1869; Sarah Jane, born February 9, 1841, died March 25, 1850.
  Robert K. Flegal, father of Dr. Flegal, was eleven years old when he 
accompanied his parents to Goshen township, Clearfield county.  The family had 
previously lived on the Matthew Read farm in Lawrence township, and prior to 
that in Bradford township and is the neighborhood of Madera.  He followed 
farming and lumbering until 1899, when he sold his effects and moved to 
Clearfield, where his death followed some six years later.  He was a Democrat in 
politics and served in local offices.  He was a leading member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, as his father had been before him.  The latter was a class 
leader and was a constant church attendant and on the occasion of his last 
meeting in the church he left his cane behind him and this relic of a good and 
worthy man is there preserved as a memorial of him.
  Robert K. Flegal married Marcy Keturah Irwin, who was born in Lawrence 
township, August 25, 1837.  She was a daughter of Henry and Mary (Ogden) Irwin.  
Her death occurred December 29, 1903.  The following children were born to them:  
Mertie M., born December 17, 1863, lives in Clearfield; Irwin Scott; Lewis 
Elmer, born July 22, 1866, lives at Eugene, Ore., married Blanche Read, a 
daughter of Thompson Read; Forrest K., born October 6, 1867, lives at Altoona, 
and married Lucy Norris, who is now deceased; Martin Creighton, born November 1, 
1871, is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, belonging to the Central 
Presbyterian Conference, and married Dora Smith, of Goshen township; Clark, born 
February 13, 1876, lives in Clearfield and married Helen Bollinger; and Ruth, 
born February 3, 1879, died March 2, 1895.
  I. S. Flegal was reared in Goshen township and attended the schools there in 
boyhood and for several years was a student in the summer Normal schools in 
Clearfield and during one year in the State Normal School at Edinboro.  He then 
began to teach school and continued from October, 1883, until 1891, in the 
meanwhile doing his preparatory medical reading, and in the latter year entered 
the Western Pennsylvania Medical College at Pittsburg, where he was graduated 
with his degree in 1894.  He chose Lumber City, Pa., as his first field for 
practice, and remained there for two and one-half years, coming then to 
Karthaus, where he has been established since January, 1897.  He is identified 
with the leading interests of this section and is recognized as a capable and 
efficient business man and a skillful and careful physician.  He was one of the 
organizers of the Karthaus Rural Telephone Company, of which he is secretary, 
served as township supervisor for three years and has given time and attention 
to furthering educational interests.  He is a member of the American Medical 
Association together with the county and state organizations.
  Dr. Flegal was married September 20, 1899, to Miss Lulu M. Bollinger, who was 
born in Woodward township, Clinton county, Pa., and was a daughter of Alfred W. 
and Elizabeth (Reed) Bollinger.  Mrs. Flegal died October 3, 1904.  Three 
children were born to this marriage:  Elizabeth Daphne, July 18, 1900; Helen 
May, February 19, 1902; and Robert Keith, September 2, 1903, who died September 
20th in the same year.