BIO: W. S. PIPER, 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 391.
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  W. S. PIPER, M. D., one of the leading homeopathic physicians and highly 
esteemed citizens of Clearfield County, Pa., was born on his father's farm in 
Bedford County, Pa., January 19, 1882, and is a son of S. F. and Laura 
(Trimbath) Piper, old and respected citizens of Bedford County.  Dr. Piper is 
the only son of a family of five children and spent his boyhood on the farm.  
At the age of 13 years he entered Shirleysburg Academy, where he took a three 
years' course, and after teaching one year in Bedford County he took up the 
study of medicine.  He entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia 
from which he graduated with the class of 1904, and during that same year 
located in Clearfield in the practice of his profession.  In 1906 he moved to 
his present office, which is located at his residence at No. 110 Second Ave.  
Dr. Piper is a member of the staff of the Clearfield Hospital, and of the Rane 
Medical Society, the State Homeopathic Society, and the American Institution of 
Homeopathy.  He is fraternally a Mason, being a member of the Blue Lodge and 
Chapter of Clearfield, the Consistory of Williamsport, and the Shrine and Jaffa 
Temple of Altoona.  In politics he is a Republican.  On August 20, 1904, Dr. 
Piper married Lena O. Teeter, who is a daughter of A. B. Teeter, of Bedford 
County, Pa., and they have one daughter Elda Lenore.  Dr. and Mrs. Piper are 
members of the Presbyterian Church.