Husband Dr. Ford Moore Summerville 1 2
Born: 30 Nov 1881 - Monroe, Beaver Twp, Clarion Co, PA 2
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Father: Dr. John Freeman Summerville (1857- ) 1 2 3
Mother: Hannah Jane Moore ( -1893) 1 2
Marriage: 18 Jul 1904 - Sandwich, Ontario, Canada 4
Wife Marion E. Rowe 4
Born: - Liverpool, England
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Ford Moore Summerville
He attended public schools in Monroe, Pennsylvania, and Clarion Collegiate Institute, at Rimersburg, Pennsylvania, later becoming a student at St. Petersburg High School, St. Petersburg, Pennsylvania. He spent two years at the University of Michigan, then went to the Detroit College of Medicine, where he was graduated in 1906 as a Doctor of Medicine. During the period in which he was taking his college course he was employed at the Detroit Sanitarium. Then, after graduation, he took up the practice of medicine at Emlenton, Pennsylvania, beginning November 22, 1906. Working in both medicine and surgery, he moved to Oil City in 1915, and there not only carried on a private practice in his profession but acted also as chief of staff of Oil City Hospital for many years.
In addition to his other activities, Dr. Summerville was a member of the Venango County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was also a member and past president of the New York and New England Railroad Surgeons and of the Pennsylvania Railroad Surgeons' Association, and was a member of the New York Central Railroad Surgeons' Association and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the International College of Surgeons. He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by St. Bonaventure College in 1932, and had postgraduate work at Harvard University, the Chicago Laboratory of Surgical Technique and Michael Reese Hospital, in Chicago. He visited most of the leading clinics in United States hospitals and in Canadian institutions, was a member of the United States Military Surgeons' Association, and acted as surgeon for both the New York Central and Erie railroads.
His services were of value also in adding to the literature of the medical profession. He became one of the founders of the "American Medicana" department of the University of Michigan, to which collection he contributed several hundred volumes of considerable antiquity and value. Dr. Summerville also had the distinction of having donated more than one-half of his total medical work to charity in the course of his professional practice.
He also interested himself in the civic and social life of his community. He was a member of the Republican party. In the Free and Accepted Masons he was a holder of the thirty-second degree of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and was an initiate in Zem Zem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was a founder and a charter member of the Kiwanis Club. In leisure time he took pleasure in the practice of certain handicrafts, notably woodworking, having his cellar fitted with the electrical equipment of this craft. He also had a fine collection of old books and antiques.