Theodore B. Lashells    

THEODORE B. LASHELLS, physician, Meadville, was born in New Berlin, Union Co., Penn., March 20. 1839, son of George E. and Eliza (Baskin) Lashells. Dr. Lashells received his classical education at Jefferson College, Washington County, Penn., and his medical education at Columbia College, Washington, P. C., from which institution he graduated in February, 1862, when he entered the United States service as Assistant Surgeon, Twelfth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. Was promoted to the rank of Surgeon, and assigned to the One Hundred and Seventy-first Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in which he served till the fall of 1863. He was taken prisoner of war and paroled, during which time, and before his exchange, he built and organized the St. Aloysius Hospital, at the National capital. Returning home in ill health, he began the practice of his profession at Meadville, where he has remained since. In 1864 he was appointed Surgeon of the Board of Enrollment for this Congressional District, which position he held till the close of the war. In 1868 he was appointed Surgeon for the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, now the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, which position he still retains. The Doctor is at present a member of the Board of Examining Surgeons for pensions for this county. He was married, October 1, 1863, to Miss Jane Kellogg, step-daughter of Maj. Samuel A. Torbett, and two children have blessed this union—Mary Bess, born July 20, 1865, and Edward Torbett. born July 3, 1869.

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 747

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