BIO: Francis W. HARPER, 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, page 749.
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  FRANCIS W. HARPER, M. D., a well known and public spirited citizen of Irvona, 
Pa., where for the past fifteen years he has been actively engaged in the 
practice of medicine, was born September 17, 1865, in Williamsport, Lycoming 
County, Pa., and is a son of John D. and Mary J. (Marshall) Harper.
  The parents of Dr. Harper were both natives of Lycoming County, Pa., where the 
father died about 1890, in his fifty-sixth year, while the mother still survives 
and makes her home there.  They were the parents of eight children, namely:  J. 
M., a resident of Niagara, N. Y.; H. A., an engineer of Williamsport; Cora B., 
the wife of Rev. G. L. Lovell, of Salem, Ore.; Bessie V., the wife of Charles 
Woods, of Williamsport, Pa., Dr. Francis W.; and May, Margaret and Maud, all 
three deceased.
  Francis W. Harper received his primary educational training in the public 
schools of Williamsport and Lycoming County, after leaving which he engaged in 
teaching school for eight years, and at the end of this time, deciding on the 
practice of medicine as his life work, he entered the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons at Baltimore, in 1893, graduating with the class of 1896.  He first 
chose the town of Glen Hope as his field of practice, but after one month there 
decided to locate in Irvona, where he has since built up a large and lucrative 
practice.  For fifteen years he has also conducted a drug store here, and he is 
known to take a leading part in any movement which has for its object the 
advancement of his community.  He is prominently connected fraternally, 
belonging to McKinley Lodge No. 171, Knights of Pythias, Irvona Lodge, No. 152, 
Knights of the Mystic Chain, Tyrone Lodge No. 212, Elks, Coalport Conclave No. 
684, I. O. H. and Coalport Lodge No. 350, Loyal Order of Moose.  He is also a 
member of the Clearfield County Medical Society.  His politics are those of the 
Republican party and he is a school director of Irvona borough.
  Dr. Harper was married to Miss Alice M. Waltz, the daughter of S. F. Waltz, of 
Lycoming County, Pa., and to this union there have been born three children, 
namely:  Marion C., Gertrude H., and Jennie Evelyn (deceased.)