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DR. KIMBER C. McWILLIAMS, one of the leading physicians of Shamokin, Pa., was

born at Elysburg, Northumberland County, Pa., October 7, 1857, and is a son of

William and Catherine (Caldwell) McWilliams. His grandfather, David McWilliams,

was born in Turbot township, Northumberland County, Pa. Soon after his marriage

to Jane Craig he removed to a farm near Elysburg, being one of the earliest

settlers in that community.



  Dr. McWilliams began his education in the public schools and later took a

finishing course at Elysburg Academy, afterward teaching school for a number of

years. In the course of these events he chose a profession and began the study

of medicine under Dr. S. F. Gilbert of Elysburg, after which he entered

Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, graduating in 1884. He immediately

began the practice of his profession at Mainville, Columbia County, where he

remained, however, only two months, subsequently locating in Snydertown, where

he remained about two years. In 1886 he removed to Shamokin, and on October u,

1887, was united in marriage to Elizabeth J. Chester of that place. Desiring to

treat special diseases scientifically, he removed to Philadelphia in 1892, where

he practiced his profession three years, at the same time taking special

lectures on diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat at the Jefferson Hospital.



  During the last year of his stay in Philadelphia he was chief assistant of a

clinic at the Polytechnic Hospital and was superintendent of the Beacon

Dispensary the entire three years of his stay in Philadelphia. Having completed

his purpose in these three years of study and practical experience in the

hospitals named above, he returned to Shamokin and began treating diseases of

the eye, ear, nose, and throat. His success in these special departments of

medicine has been greater than anticipated. Aside from having a large practice

among a desirable class of patrons our subject does much charity work and is

amply repaid in the knowledge of his power to relieve suffering and by the

expressions of gratitude from the recipients of his beneficence. In religious

belief he is a Presbyterian and has been an elder in that church for a number of

years.



  William McWilliams, father of Dr. K. C. McWilliams, was born in Turbot

township, where he lived through the period of his early years. He was educated

in Milton Academy and learned the profession of a civil engineer, following it

throughout his active life. He assisted in laying out the borough of Shamokin,

and was employed in making the survey of the railroad from Shamokin to Sunbury,

working under Kimber Cleaver. Many of the mines in the early development of the

coal industry were surveyed by him and many of the maps were made from his

measurements.



  In politics he was always a Republican, but never aspired to office. He was an

elder in the Presbyterian Church for many years, was greatly interested in the

.educational system of our country, and was very active in its cause, being one

of the prime movers in the founding of Elysburg Academy. He was especially

interested in the common schools of his township. He and his estimable wife were

blessed with a family of five children, four sons and one daughter: Clifton C.,

who was engaged in teaching during his younger days and now resides on the old

home farm near Elysburg,—he is an active Prohibitionist; Kimber C.; David A., a

graduate of Dickinson Seminary, who studied law at Minneapolis, where he

practiced several years,—he subsequently entered the McCormick Theological

Seminary at Chicago, became a minister and now holds a charge in that city; Cora

R., for eight years a successful teacher in the Shamokin schools, who is now a

student in the University of Chicago; and William Caldwell, who died in early

childhood.







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  Extracted from:

    

    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

    Published by 

    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)





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