Cyrus Alexander McCaskey M.D. (1853 - 1899)

Born 8 Mar 1853 in Winfield township, Butler co., PA

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Died 4 Jun 1899 at age 46 in Bolivar, Westmoreland Co., PA

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Biography

From Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania By John M. Gresham pg 543-544.

CYRUS ALEXANDER McCASKEY, M. D., a successful physician of this county, now resident of Bolivar and who was one of the first physicians to render medical and surgical aid to the sufferers of the great Johnstown Flood, is a son of Joseph and Dorcas Ellen (Painter) McCaskey, and was born in Winfield township, Butler county. Pa., March 8, 1853. His father and grandfather were natives of Washington county, Pa. The latter, Andrew McCaskey, was born at Hickory in that county in 1809 and died in 1868. lie was a teacher by profession, a Presbyterian in religious belief and married Mary Harper by whom he had six children : Nancy, wife of John Brinker; Joseph (deceased); Louisa and Emily, wife of W. C. Smith, livery superintendent of Wylie avenue (Pittsburg) cable-car line. Joseph McCaskey (father) was born in 1834 and died at forty-two years of age. He was a presbyterian, an Odd Fellow and served in the late war as a soldier in the sixth Pa. heavy artillery. He married Dorcas E. Painter, daughter of John and Mary Painter, by whom he had ten children : Dr. Cyrus A., Mary J. (deceased), Andrew Presley, John Harper, Melvin Ellsworth, Nancy Anna, wife of John Kerr ; Effie Bell, married to John Kron ; Maggie May, Willie, who died in infancy and Joseph (deceased).

Dr. C. A. McCaskey received a common school and academic education. At seventeen years of age he commenced reading medicine with Dr. J. M. Scott, of Butler county, and in 1873 entered the University of Wooster, Ohio, and was graduated from the Medical department of that institution in the class of 1876. After graduating he located in Petersville where he remained two years, then left Butler county and was at Millerstown, in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, for ten years. In 1886 he removed to Pittsburg where he practiced for two years and on December 15, 1888, he came to Bolivar where he has remained ever since in the active and successful practice of his profession, He is a republican in politics. He is a member of a Lodge, of the I. 0. 0. F., Lodge, No. 457, K. of P. and the Presbyterian church.

In 1874 Dr. McCaskey married Sarah J. Whitmire, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Thompson) Whitmire, of Butler county, Pa. To Dr. and Mrs. McCaskey have been born four children: Bertha D., Myrtle G., Joseph Henry (deceased), and Aileen.

Dr. McCaskey was one of the first physicians to go to Johnstown after the great flood at that place and was given entire control of the drug department as soon as the State assumed charge of the place. He also acted as assistant surgeon of Bedford street hospital and was appointed surgeon to the tenth regiment National Guards of Pennsylvania.

1880: Butler Co., PA

• Cyrus Mc Casky Self M 27 PA
• Saidie Mc Casky Wife F 24 PA
• Bertha D Mc Casky Daughter F 4 PA
• Myrthe Mc Casky Daughter F 2 PA
• Joseph H Mc Casky Son M 0 PA
• Annie Mc Casky Sister F 13 PA

Sources

• "United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MWXD-7GY : accessed 23 Jul 2014), Saidie Mc Casky in household of Cyrus Mc Casky, Donegal, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 192A, NARA microfilm publication T9.

• Butler citizen. (Butler, Pa.), 08 June 1899. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86071045/1899-06-08/ed-1/seq-2/>