Westmoreland-Armstrong County PA Archives Biographies.....Lafferty, James H. July 20, 1854

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 HON. JAMES H. LAFFERTY, a leading young physician of New Florence, was born
July 20, 1854, in Armstrong county, Pa., and is son of Jacob and Elizabeth
(Cowan) Rafferty. The former was a native of Armstrong county, Fa., and the
latter was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Cowan of Indiana county. Jacob
Rafferty was nine months a soldier in the Federal army, at the end of which time
he was discharged for disability. John Lafferty (grandfather) was a farmer and
merchant by occupation and was born in Ireland.

   Dr. James H. Lafferty was educated at Elder's Ridge and Saltsburg Literary
and Classical Institute of Indiana county. At the age of seventeen he began
teaching school and taught for a period of eight years. He then began to read
medicine in 1877 in the office of Dr. Thomas Carson, of Saltsburg, Pa., and
subsequently entered the college of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore and was
graduated in the class of 1881. He began the practice of medicine in 1881 at New
Florence, Pa., where he still resides and has been successful in building up a
paying practice and was also engaged in the drug business in connection with the
practice of medicine from 1882 to 1886. Dr. Lafferty has been twice married; his
first marriage was to Anna M. Townsend on April 10, 1883. She was a daughter of
Absalom K. and Mary Townsend, of Armstrong county, a native of Armstrong county,
and died January 24, 1884. Their union was blessed with one child; John T., born
January 13, 1884; his second wife was Lizzie, a daughter of John and Elizabeth
Wagoner, of New Florence, to whom he was married on June 3, 1886. Her
grandfather Wagoner was a native of Ireland and settled at Lewistown, Mifflin
county, Pa. Dr. Lafferty is a democrat, an active worker in his party, was
appointed U. S. Pension examiner in 1885 and served acceptably in this capacity
until December 1, 1886, when he resigned to accept a seat in the Legislature of
Pennsylvania. In 1886 he became a nominee of his party in Westmoreland county
for the office of representative and was elected by a majority of 148. He was
renominated in 1888 for the same office by his party and was defeated on account
of the strong fight made by the republicans in the presidential election of
1888. He is a member of the Masonic order, of the O. F. A. M., of the Junior O.
F. A. M., Royal Arcanum, Chosen Friends and is deputy state councillor in the 0.
U. A. M. and Junior O. U. A. M. He is the medical examiner for the following
insurance companies: National of Vermont, Equitable of New York Life, and
People's Mutual of Westerville, Ohio. He is also medical examiner for the Royal
Arcanum and Chosen Friends and is an energetic citizen and a well-read physician.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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