Edgar C. Parsons, M. D.  

EDGAR C. PARSONS, M. D., Meadville, was born November 19, 1847, at Alexandria, Ohio, son of Hiram G. and Dorotha (Page) Parsons, former a native of New York, latter of Vermont. Hiram G. Parsons was brought when quite young from New York to Alexandria, Ohio, by his mother, who was then a widow, and was reared in Alexandria, near which place he made agriculture his main occupation. He was twice married, on first occasion, in Alexandria, Ohio, to Dorotha Page, who bore him three children: Edgar C., Electa and Jerusha, the latter of whom was married to William H. Banner, a resident of Champaign County, Ill.; Electa was married to E. P. Robb, residing in Kansas. To the second marriage of Hiram G. Parsons were born five children —three boys and two girls. Our subject received his literary education at the public school and an academy at Johnstown, Ohio, and commenced the study of medicine under Dr. A. B. Wilder, of Knoxville, Iowa, about January, 1871. After leaving school in 1867, he taught school two terms in Ohio, beginning in the winter of the latter year, and in 1868 moved from Ohio to Knoxville, Iowa, taught school for several terms in Marion and Mahaska Counties, that State, and in 1870 accepted the charge of the intermediate department, and later of the grammar school at Knoxville, Iowa, which position he filled till June, 1873. In the fall of 1873 our subject attended medical lectures at the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, Ill., and after taking one course he began the practice of his profession at Rantoul, Ill., where he remained till the fall of 1876, and then went to the Hahnemann College at Philadelphia, from which he graduated March 8, 1877. In the spring of that year the Doctor established himself in Meadville, and has here continued since in successful and active practice. In the spring of 1883 the Doctor was appointed Health Officer of Meadville, and is now serving a second term in that capacity. Our subject was instrumental in effecting the organization of the Crawford County Homoeopathic Medical Society, of which he has since been Secretary. He is also a member of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania. Dr. Parsons was married at Irwin Station, Westmoreland County, Penn., October 14, 1874, to Amanda, daughter of James G. Boyd, Esq., merchant of that place. To this union have been born two children—Page W. and Evangeline.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 755

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