OBIT: John A. LICHTY, Dr., 1932, native of Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library. Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer. Copyright 2012. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ JOHN A. LICHTY Eminent Physician Succumbs to Heart Disease - A Native of Elk Lick Twp. Dr. John A. Lichty, most eminent of physicians born and reared in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, passed away at Clifton Springs, N.Y., at 6:30 a.m., May 2, at the age of 66 years, 2 months and 6 days, after a long illness of muscular heart disease with many painful complications. He was born in Elk Lick Township, near Meyersdale, on the farm now owned and occupied by Ralph H. Moser, Feb. 26, 1866. He was a son of Elder Jonas Lichty, a farmer and highly esteemed minister of the Church of the Brethren. He was reared on the farm on which he was born, and received his elementary education in the little red school house that formerly stood near Boynton, and in local normal schools in Salisbury and Meyersdale, the present publisher of this paper once having been his teacher in Salisbury. During his young manhood he taught several terms in the public schools of his native county and in Nebraska. Later he was graduated from Mount Union College, Ohio, and the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the latter institution in 1894. While a student in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, he became betrothed to Miss Cora Lane Stoner of Greensburg, Pa., who was also a medical student, and received her M.D. degree the same year he did. On December 11, 1894, Dr. Lichty and Dr. Stoner were married and they together took post graduate work in leading medical schools of Germany. In 1897 they located in Pittsburgh where Dr. Lichty became a leading practitioner and an eminent diagnostician being frequently called in consultation with physicians in many cities. Mrs. Lichty, who specialized as a bactereologist, assisted her husband in his laboratory work during the early years of his practice. In course of time he became one of the busiest and most successful physicians of Pittsburgh, numbering among his clients many of the most prominent and wealthiest families of Western Pennsylvania. He also did much charity work and was for many years a lecturer in the medical college of the University of Pittsburgh. While still a medical student he obtained employment during vacations at Clifton Springs Sanitarium, one of the most famous clinics and health institutions in the country. The connection he thus established led to his becoming a member of the official board of Clifton Springs Sanitarium and a member of the medical staff of the institution. In November, 1923, he became superintendent of the sanitarium and turned over his practice in Pittsburgh to his nephew, Dr. Max Lichty, and another of his associates, and moved to Clifton Springs where he lived since and officiated as superintendent of the sanitarium until ill health compelled him to retire more than a year ago. Dr. Lichty's domestic life was very happy. He and Mrs. Lichty were blessed with four children. He was a devoted husband and father and an earnest Christian, having united with the Church of the Brethren during his youth, and in his latter years being affiliated with the First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh. He was a member of the American Medical Association, county and state medical societies, the Pittsburgh Academy of Medicine and also a director of American College of Physicians. Dr. Lichty is survived by his wife, two sons, Joseph S. Lichty, a student at Harvard Medical School, and John Alden Lichty, attending the Rochester Medical School; two daughters, Mrs. Herschel Lamb and Mrs. Walter Lissfelt, both of 122 Hastings Street, Pittsburgh; a brother, H. M. Lichty, of Sunnyside, Wash., and a sister, Mrs. Peter Blough, Waterloo, Ia. Two sisters, Mrs. Daniel Saylor of Morrill, Kansas, and Mrs. Dennis Schrock, of Somerset, Pa., and two brothers, William H. Lichty, of Waterloo, Iowa, and Dr. Milton J. Lichty, of Cleveland, Ohio, are deceased. Funeral services for Dr. Lichty were held in the Sanitarium chapel at Clifton Springs on Wednesday afternoon, followed by burial in the Clifton Springs cemetery. Dr. Lichty's death is sincerely mourned by many relatives and a host of former patients and friends. He was a first cousin of Dr. Bruce Lichty of Meyersdale. Meyersdale Republican, May 5, 1932