J. B. Colcord    

J. B. COLCORD, physician and surgeon, Port Allegany, was born in Thurston, Steuben Co., N. Y., August 12, 1862, a son of Albert and Elizabeth (Shearer) Colcord, who settled in Eulalia. Potter Co., Penn., in 1868, where the father, a blacksmith by trade, still resides. J. B. Colcord was reared in Potter county from six years of age, and was educated in the graded schools of Coudersport. In 1882 he began the study of medicine with Dr. E. S. Mattison, of Coudersport. entered the College of Physicians, of Baltimore, Md., in the fall of 1882, and was graduated in the spring of 1885. He began the practice of his profession in Coudersport in the same year, where he remained until August 1886, when he located at Turtle Point, where he had an active practice, but April 1, 1889, he moved to Port Allegany, where he is now permanently located. He is a member of the Sons of Veterans, and in politics is a Republican.

History of the counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, Pennsylvania with biographical selections, including their early settlement and development, a description of the historic and interesting localities, sketches of their cities, towns and villages, portraits of prominent men, biographies of representative citizens, outline history of Pennsylvania, statistics.. Chicago. J.H. Beers & Co.. 1890, page 519.  Read this book on line - Free Trial 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.