Bios: MARK F. TONER: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    MARK F. TONER,
    
    [p. 628] who is engaged in building up a splendid practice as a skillful
  physician and surgeon in the city of New Castle, where he has been located
  since 1893, is a native of Pennsylvania, being ushered into this world Aug.
  21, 1867, in Westmoreland County. He is a son of James and Ann (Burgoon)
  Toner, the former of Lancaster, Pa., and the latter a native of Westmoreland
  Co., Pa.
    
    The father of our subject was a tanner by trade, and followed that
  occupation all of the active period of his life, retiring from labor twenty
  years previous to his death, which took place in 1877, when he was aged
  sixty-five years. He was a prominent man of his section and very influential
  in political circles, in which he figured as a leading Democrat. His wife,
  who passed away in 1882, bore him thirteen children, as follows: Bridget;
  Joseph; John; Martha A.; James; Mary; Peter; Arthur; Alice; Francis; and Mark
  F.; the remainder of the family did not grow up to maturity. Bridget married
  P. M. Kirwin of Pittsburg, Pa., and had four children, Mary, Honora, Arthur,
  and Pauline. Joseph married Susan Layton of Derry, Pa., and their union
  resulted in the following family: James L., John, William, Joseph, Augusta,
  Mary, and Pauline. Martha A. married Edward O'Brien of Westmoreland Co., Pa.,
  and to them were given Mary, Louis, Alice, and Edward. James married Catherine
  Botzem of Westmoreland Co., Pa., now deceased, and three children were born to
  them, William, Louis, and Anna. Mary married Edward Layton and has two
  children living, Anna and Arthur. The family were communicants of the Roman
  Catholic Church.
    
    Dr. Toner's collegiate education was secured in St. Vincent's College of
  Westmoreland Co., Pa.; upon the completion of his course in that institution,
  and after a course of reading medicine under Dr. J. C. Cline of Derry Station,
  he entered Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pa., and graduated in
  1893. He at once located in New Castle, where he has established a general
  office practice at 106 South Jefferson Street, that is highly creditable to
  one whose years of professional activity have been comparatively few. He
  enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow-practitioners, and of a large
  circle of patrons, and is considered to be thoroughly competent to treat any
  case successfully which comes up in a general practice. He is a member of the
  Lawrence County Medical Society, and officiated as its secretary for two years.