Thomas Gillison Maghee (1842 - 1927)

Born 12 Jul 1842 in Evans Landing, Harrison County, Indiana

Ancestors

Husband of Evelyn Vallier (Baldwin) Maghee — married 18 Apr 1885 in Fremont, Wyoming

Descendants

Died 29 Sep 1927 at age 85 in Lander, Fremont County, Wyoming

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Biography

This gentleman, the most experienced medical practitioner in Rawlins, Wyo., was born in Evansville, Ind., in 1842, and is a son of Joseph B. and Mary (Jacobs) Maghee. Joseph B. Maghee was born in 1814 in Bucks county. Pa., not far from the county and city of Philadelphia and was reared to a mercantile life. In his early manhood he went to Texas, thence came north and made his home in Evansville, Ind., where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1889. holding then the exalted position of the head of the Temple of Honor in the United States. He also rendered service to the Union army in the medical department. William and Martha (Holme) Maghee, the parents of Joseph, came from Scottish ancestors who settled in Pennsylvania in 1749. the entire family being of agricultural proclivities and the greater number of them practical farmers. Mrs. Mary (Jacobs) Maghee was born in Evansville, Ind., in 1819, and was the first white child born in Vanderburg county, being the daughter of G. W. and Hannah (Sampson) Jacobs, pioneers of the county. G. W. was a native of Vermont and a son of Nathaniel, who was born in the same state in 1757, and was wounded at the battle of Bennington in the Revolutionary War yet lived to be 106 years old. G. W. was a captain in the War of 1812, but attained the rank of major at the battle of Lundy's Lane, where, too, he was wounded. Thomas G. Maghee attended Hanover College until about nineteen years of age, when his patriotism was aroused at the breaking out of the Civil War and he at once relinquished his studies to take up arms in the defense of the Union by enlisting in Co. F, Twenty-fourth Indiana Infantry, in which he served with bravery and fortitude for two and one-half years, winning the unstinted praise of his superior officers and the admiration of his comrades. After his return from the army, Mr. Maghee resumed his studies in his native state and was graduated as a physician and surgeon in 1873, and was at once assigned as an assistant surgeon in the U. S. army, was attached to various posts at different times, and in May, 1873, was assigned to Camp Brown, now Fort Washakie, Wyo. He received honorable mention from the Secretary of War in 1874 for gallantry in action with Indians in Bates' fight in the Big Horn Mountains on July 4, of that year. Resigning in 1878, he located in Green River, Wyo., and was elected to the territorial legislature in the same year. In 1880 he changed his residence to Rawlins, and here he has since been favored with a large and lucrative practice and standing at the front of his profession. Doctor Maghee has been twice married, in 1866 to his first wife. Miss Mollie Williams, a daughter of James L. and Ellen (Smith) Williams. This lady was called away in 1884 at the age of thirty-five years, leaving four children: Thomas G., who died in 1892, a cadet at West Point; Morgan M., an electrical engineer, served in the Spanish-American War as captain of Troop K, of Torrey's Rough Riders ; Griffith H. pharmaceutical chemist; Torrey B., also a cadet at West Point. In 1885, the Doctor took unto himself a second wife in the person of Evelyn Baldwin, a native of New York City and a daughter of Major Noyes and Josephine E. Wright Baldwin. This union has been blessed with one child, Valliere B. Doctor Maghee is a member of the American Medical Association, the Pan American Medical Association and the Colorado State Medical Association, and he has been the surgeon for the Union Pacific Railroad Company with but brief intervals since 1878. He has been highly complimented for his successful treatment of a surgical and dermatological case, which in 1886 came under his care, the subject being a Mr. Geo. Webb, for whom he restored an almost entire face, forming a new nose, new lips, new lower jawbone and new chin. Doctor Maghee is a very genial gentleman as well as a skillful physician, and fraternally is a Freemason of the Thirty-second degree (about as high as ordinary mortals reach). He is also a Knight of Pythias, an Odd Fellow and an Elk, and as a citizen he is honored and esteemed wherever his name is known. His brother, Lieut. Joseph B. Maghee, of Saratoga, Wyo., came out in 1879.

Source: The Progressive Men of the state of Wyoming, by A. W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

Sources

• The Progressive Men of the state of Wyoming, by A. W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1903. Page 210. [1]

• https://wyostatearchives.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/wyo-whiskers-big-nose-george-parrott/

• "United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F9PB-64D : 4 December 2014), Thomas G. Magee, Private, Company F, 24th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Union; citing NARA microfilm publication M540 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 46; FHL microfilm 881,767.

• "Wyoming Marriages, 1877-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR4L-S6B : 11 February 2018), Thomas G. Maghee and Evelyn V. Baldwin, 18 Apr 1885; citing , Fremont, Wyoming, reference 2:2DC2KS6; FHL microfilm 966,966.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110569278/thomas-gillison-maghee