Joseph W. Leadenham, M. D.    

JOSEPH W. LEADENHAM, M. D., was born in Carbon county, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1855, son of Joseph W. and Elizabeth (Roberts) Leadenham, the former a native of England and the latter of Wales, both of whom immigrated to New York city in childhood. Our subject was reared in this state and New York city, received his primary education in the latter place, and took a scientific course in a college of that city. In 1871 he commenced reading medicine under Doctor J. B. Tweedle of Carbon county, and in 1874-75 attended lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College. In 1876 he attended Long Island Hospital Medical College where he graduated in June of that year. He was interne in the hospitals of New York and Brooklyn until January, 1877, when he opened an office at Edenburg, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, and practiced there until May, 1883, when he removed to Franklin. Doctor Leadenham took a course on histology and pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in 1882, and the next year took a course at the Post-Graduate Medical College. He was married April 22, 1878, to Miss L. May Smith, of Edenburg, Pennsylvania. In politics he is a Republican, a member of the Masonic order, the A. 0. U. W., and the U. F. The Doctor is an active member of the State Medical Society, Minnesota Medical Society, and the American Medical Association, also of the American Microscopical Society. Since coming to Franklin Doctor Leadenham has enjoyed a fine practice, and is regarded as one of the progressive physicians of the county.

History of Venango County, Pennsylvania : its past and present, including its aboriginal history, the French and British occupation of the country, its early settlement and subsequent growth, a description of its historic and interesting localities, its rich oil deposits and their development, sketches of its cities, boroughs, townships, and villages, neighborhood and family history, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc., etc.
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