James Ferguson 

JAMES FERGUSON, dentist, Meadville, was born in Canada, November 23, 1837, and is a son of Edward and Mary Ann (Kirkpatrick) Ferguson, natives of Ireland, who reared a family of five sons and one daughter, our subject being the third child. He received his education in his native land, and there learned printing, working at that business for four years. During the war of the Rebellion he came to the United States, and in 1864 was in the Quartermaster’s Department. After the war he took up the study of dentistry, attending the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, Canada, where he graduated in 1871. In 1879 he was married in Canada to Elizabeth G. Sanders, and they have two children—Grace and Edward James. The Doctor has established a good practice in Meadville. 

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 737.  View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free Trial  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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