Husband Dr. Charles W. Townsend, M.D. 1 2 3
AKA: Dr. C. M. Townsend,4 Carlos W. Townsend 5
Born: 27 Apr 1822 - Peters Twp, Washington Co, PA 6
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Father: Joseph Townsend (1796-1871) 7 8
Mother: Nancy Blackmore ( -1833) 9
Marriage: 1854 10
Wife Margaret Ann Wright 2 3 4 11
Born: 14 Dec 1830 2 3
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Died: Aft 1882
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Father: Rev. Joseph Wright (1794-1851/1854) 4 12 13 14
Mother: Catharine Hopkins (1796-1863) 14 15 16
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1 M Joseph Alexander Townsend 3 10
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2 F Catherine Wright "Katie" Townsend 3 17
Born: 15 Dec 1859 18
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Spouse: Dr. Boyd A. Emery, M.D. (1851- ) 3 18
3 M William Hopkins Townsend 3 10
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4 F Lucinda Jane "Jennie" Townsend 3 10
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Spouse: Obediah C. Higbee ( - ) 3 10
5 M Chatham Anderson Townsend 3 10
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6 M Charles Thornton Townsend 3 10
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7 F Nellie Brown Townsend 3 10
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8 F Nancy Rachel "Nannie" Townsend 10
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Charles W. Townsend, M.D.
He received an excellent education, was for some time a surveyor in Washington County, Pennsylvania, doing much work, and then read medicine for four years with Dr. W. B. Lank, finally graduating from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1849. In that year he began to practice his profession in Peters township.
The Doctor resided on a beautifully improved farm, on which are six large orchards of fruit trees, situated near the old homestead. In his chosen profession as a skilled physician he has obtained a most remarkable record of success. In one epidemic of typhoid fever approaching one hundred and fifty cases, every patient recovered, and in two other extensive epidemics of the same fever success was equally fortunate; during a general and extended practice of over forty years, he did not lose a lady in obstetrical practice, a fortunate achievement.
In politics he was faithful to pure Democratic and Jeffersonian Republican principles, and on one occasion, in 1883, to give him a rest, his friends elected him to the Legislature without a single effort on his own part. With firm belief in the orthodoxy of the Trinity, he faithfully accepts the substantial philosophy of future entitative existence.