BIO: Michael HURD, M.D., Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
 
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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 343.
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  MICHAEL HURD, M. D., a leading physician and surgeon at Mahaffey, Pa., well 
known professionally over a wide territory in Clearfield County, was born in 
this county, at La Jose, in Chester Township, and is a son of Henry and 
Catherine Hurd.
  Henry Hurd, father of Dr. Hurd, was born in Vermont, and was a son of Elias 
Hurd.  In 1842, Henry Hurd came to Clearfield County, where he taught school, 
after which he purchased a farm in Chester Township and engaged in farming and 
lumbering.  They are both living on the homestead in Chester Township.
  Michael Hurd attended the Chester Township schools and those of La Jose, later 
spent three years as a student in the graded schools at New Washington and two 
years in the Curwensville Normal School.  In 1879 he entered Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia, and was graduated there in 1883.  Dr. Hurd located first 
at Newburg, not far from his birthplace, and continued to practice there until 
May, 1909, when he moved to Mahaffey, where he has built up a very large 
practice and has been welcomed as a citizen of enterprise and worth.
  In 1878, Dr. Hurd was married to Miss Orie E. Curry, who is a daughter of 
Austin Curry, a well known farmer and lumberman of Chest Township.  Dr. and Mrs. 
Hurd have had nine children born to them, several of whom died when aged about 
three years.  The survivors are:  Nellie, who is the wife of Frank Markle, of 
Mahaffey; Lena, who is the wife of James Cardell, of Westover, Pa. (they have 
three children - Vernon, Paul and Cliffton); Vella, who is a popular and 
successful teacher in the graded schools at Mahaffey, being a graduate of the 
Lock Haven Normal School; and Denay, Curry, and Gard.  Those deceased were 
Austin, Sue and Zoe.  Dr. Hurd is a member of various medical organizations and 
belongs also to the P. O. S. A. at Newburg.