Clearfield County PA Archives - Photos: WOODSIDE, H. A., M.D.

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H. A. Woodside, M.D., leading citizen of Clearfield County

photo scanned from Roland D. Swoopes "Twentieth Century History of Clearfield 
County, PA and Representative Citizens", published 1911, page 448


  H. A. WOODSIDE, M. D., physician and surgeon at Lumber City, Pa., where he is 
numbered with the public spirited and valuable citizens, was born in Boggs 
township, Clearfield county, Pa., August 10, 1871, and is a son of T. B. and 
Mary Ann (Turner) Woodside.
  T. B. Woodside was born in Center county, Pa., in 1842, and was reared and 
educated in Center and Clearfield counties.  In early manhood he married Mary 
Ann Turner, a daughter of John Turner of Boggs township, and they had nine 
children born to them, as follows:  H. A.; J. A., who lives at Philipsburg, 
Pa.; W. W., who is a clerk in the Bickford store at Curwensville; H. L., who is 
a physician practicing at Clover Run, Clearfield county; Guy, who is an iron 
worker, at Johnstown, Pa.; Roy, who lives in New Jersey; and Donald, Vada and 
Letitia, all of whom live at home.  T. B. Woodside maintained his home in Boggs 
township, at Wallacetown and in Graham township, before he settled permanently 
as a farmer in Boggs township, where he owns 155 acres of valuable land.  He 
has been a lifelong Democrat and has frequently served in township offices.  
Formerly he was identified with the Odd Fellows.  With his wife he belongs to 
the Methodist Episcopal church.
  H. A. Woodside attended the public schools in Boggs township, then the 
Mahaffey school under G. W. L. Oster, in the class of 1889, and later the 
Central State Normal School at Lock Haven, in 1893.  He then taught four terms 
of school, one of these being in the Winburne High School.  After this he 
entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 
1897, and after a year of experience in the Jefferson Hospital, he came to 
Lumber City in April, 1898.  Dr. Woodside is a member of the county and state 
medical bodies and of the American Medical Association.  He is a member of the 
board of health for the borough of Lumber City and also is health officer for 
Knox and Ferguson townships.  He is local surgeon for the New York Central 
Railroad at this point.  In addition to a large and lucrative practice he has 
other interests, being a stockholder in two of the leading National Banks of 
the county, also is concerned in the Bickford store and meat market at 
Curwensville.
  In April, 1890, Dr. Woodside was married to Miss Belle McClure, who was born 
in Pike township, a daughter of John R. McClure, and they have two children:  
Wendell H. and Hobart K.  In politics Dr. Woodside is a Democrat, and a member 
of Masonic lodge, Noble Lodge No. 480, Curwensville.