Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....McCurdy, R. C. May 8, 1855

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R. C. McCURDY, M. D., an intelligent and skillful physician of Livermore who 
has successfully practiced his profession in Allegheny, Butler and Westmoreland
counties for over eight years, was born in Butler county, Pa., May 8, 1855, and
is a son of Dr. R. L. and Mary E. (Redick) McCurdy. Dr. R. C. McCurdy is of
Scotch-Irish descent. His paternal grandfather, John McCurdy, was a native of
this country and was a resident of Indiana county, this State, for many years.
His maternal grandfather, Rev. John Redick, was a pioneer Presbyterian minister
who lived during the latter part of his life in Armstrong county, Pa. His
father, Dr. R. L. McCurdy, was born in October, 1824, near Ebenezer, Indiana
county, this State, and lives at Freeport, Pa., where he has been a resident
since 1859. He is an active republican and a strict member of the Presbyterian
church. He married Mary E. Redick, who was born near what is now known as Slate
Lick in Armstrong county, Pa. To Dr. and Mrs. McCurdy were born six children:
Elizabeth, wife of Capt. A. S. Warner of Creighton, Pa.; Dr. R. L., Etta,
telegraph operator at Natrona, this State; Luella G.; Calvin W., who is one of
the faculty of Curry University, Pittsburg; and Mary DeBure, who is a teacher in
the ladies’ seminary at Washington, Pa.

   Dr. R. C. McCurdy was reared chiefly at Freeport where he attended the common
schools. He then entered Witherspoon institution and took the four years course
of that educational institution. He read medicine with his father at Freeport,
entered the medical department of Wooster University, Ohio, where he remained
but a short time and then went to the college of Physicians and Surgeons,
Baltimore, Maryland, from which well-known institution he was graduated March 3,
1882. In the same year he located at New Texas, Allegheny county, where he
practiced for three years, then removed to Butler, Pa.and remained at that
place for two years. In 1887 he came from Butler to Livermore, where he has been
successful in building up a large and remunerative practice. Dr. McCurdy is a
stanch republican and a strong presbyterian. He is a member of the Iron Hall
Order, and the Jr. Order of United American Mechanics at Tunnelton.

    June 14, 1884, he married Maggie M. Weir, daughter of Judge A. D. Weir of
Butler, Pa. The Weirs are of Scotch-Irish origin.

    Dr. R. C. McCurdy is a well-read and skillful physician. He is a nephew of
Rev. T. A McCurdy, D. D., who is a distinguished divine of the Presbyterian
church and president of McAlister college, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The McCurdy
family is Scotch-Irish in origin, presbyterian in religious belief and all of
its present members are republican in political opinion.


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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