Obits:  Dr. Christopher McEwen,  Indiana Co, PA

SUBJECT: Dr. Christopher McEwen
SUBMITTER: Janelle Osborn
EMAIL: tarie2@home.com
DATE: Oct 30, 1998
SURNAMES: McEwen, Cochran
June 17, 1896, taken from an old newspaper clipping, name of newspaper
unknown.

Dr. Chrsitopher McEwen, a prominent practicing physician of the county,
died at his home at Plumville on Wednesday afternoon about 4 o'clock, aged
65 years. The direct cause of his death was uremic poisoning resulting
from diseased kidneys. Although Mr. McEwen has not been enjoying his usual
health for some time, only a week previous to his death he made several
professional calls. Several weeks ago he accompanied his wife to Pittsburg
where she was treated in a hospital. She returned home on Wednesday and
her husband died on the following day. The shock of his death has almost
prostrated the widow. The medical fraternity of the county mourn the loss
of a physician of ability and one who has had experience of practice which
covers a period of 40 years. The deceased was born in South Mahoning township
October 17, 1830. He was a son of John McEwen one of the early settlers
in that neighborhood. The deceased was raised on a farm and received his
education in the schools at Plumville and the Glade Run Academy. He read
medicine with Dr. William McEwen and in 1855 graduated at the Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia. Since that time he has been located at Plumville,
where he has spent his life, doing good to suffering humanity and spreading
the influence of the most excellent character over the community. Dr. McEwen
was a man of most liberal nature and was esteemed and respected by all
who knew him. He enjoyed a lucrative practice which extended all over the
portion of the county in which he lived. The lonely wife and only one child,
Dr. Charles M McEwen, who has been associated for years with his father
in the practice of medicine, survive him. The funeral services were conducted
at his late home on Friday morning and was attended by a large concourse
of friends who had gathered to pay the last tribute to his memory. The
services were conducted by Rev. Ewing, pastor of the Beracha United Presbyterian
Church; Rev. A.T. Bell of Washington Presbyterian Church; Rev. Foresman
of Marion Center, and Rev. Patterson of Atwood. The following colleagues
acted as pall bearers: Dr. William Byers, of Punxustawney; Dr. D.R Crawford,of
Smicksburg; Dr. W.L. Shields, of Jacksonville; Dr. M.M. Davis, of this
place; Dr. J.L Mabon of Penn Run, and Dr. W.B. Ansley, of Saltsburg. The
interment was made at Beracha graveyard, near Plumville.

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