Dr. Isaac Newton Snively and Cynthia Powers Tipton

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Husband Dr. Isaac Newton Snively ¹

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           Born: 5 Apr 1862 - Guilford Twp, Franklin Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Keefer Snively (1836-Aft 1887) 3 4
         Mother: Urilla Barbara Hade (1839-1864) 1

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       Marriage: 1 Jan 1891 5

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Wife Cynthia Powers Tipton ⁵

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           Born: 5 Nov 1866 5
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Children

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1 F Urilla Hayde Snively ⁵

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           Born: 30 Jan 1893 5
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2 F Katharine Tipton Snively ⁵

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           Born: 4 Oct 1898 5
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3 M I. Newton Snively, Jr. ⁵

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           Born: 9 Oct 1903 5
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Isaac Newton Snively

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He was Dean of the Medical Department of the Temple College and visiting physician to the Samaritan Hospital, Philadelphia, and also held the position of Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine in the Medical Department of the Temple College. He was a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine. He was one of the founders of the Northwest Medical Society of Philadelphia, and was president of that society in 1896. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of Mary Commandery; of the Philadelphia Consistory; and of Lu Lu Shrine.
Dr. Snively was educated in the public schools of his native county and graduated from the Chambersburg Academy in 1883. He then entered Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, and graduated in the regular classical course with the degree of A. B. in 1887, and for literary work done after graduation received-1890-the degree of Master of Arts. During his Junior and Senior years at Gettysburg he pursued special courses in biology, chemistry, physiology, comparative and human anatomy and zoology, was graduated with distinction, and received the appointment from the Faculty to deliver the scientific oration. While at Gettysburg he was a very active member of the Phi Gamma Delta Greek Letter Fraternity; he was also an active member of the Philo Literary Society. In the fall of 1887 he successfully passed the entrance examinations for the Junior year at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, and received the degree of M. D. with honor in the spring of 1889 from that institution. He was tendered the position as resident physician in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, which position he held for several months, resigning in the fall of 1889 in order to begin private practice in Philadelphia.
His first professional position in Philadelphia was in 1890 and 1891 as visiting physician to the Methodist Home for Aged Couples. In 1891, 1892, 1893, he was assistant Neurologist to the Dispensary of the Medico-Chirurgical College. He began his teaching career as assistant to the Professor of Physiology in the Medico-Chirurgical College in the fall of 1893, which position he held until elected to the position of lecturer on Physical Diagnosis in the Medico-Chirurgical College in 1897. This chair he resigned to accept the position as Professor of Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the Medical Department of the Temple College in the summer of 1901. The Doctor was the first physician in Philadelphia to use antitoxin in the treatment of diphtheria; he wrote many valuable papers on Therapeutics and read them before the various societies of which he was a member. He resided at No. 1617 North Broad street, and had a large general practice in Philadelphia and surrounding counties.

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 224.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 227.

3 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 961.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 222.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 228.