William Stevens Duncan, M.D.    

William Stevens Duncan, M.D., son of Thomas Duncan, and grandson of Dr. Benjamin Stevens, one of the earliest medical practitioners of the county, was born in Bridgeport, May 24, 1834, and educated at Mount Union College, Stark Co., Ohio. He began his medical studies in 1855, in the office of Dr. M. O. Jones, then of Bridgeport; matriculated in the University of Pennsylvania, and received the degree of M.D. from that institution in March, 1858. The same year he formed with his preceptor a partnership in the practice of medicine, which was terminated in about two years and a half by the removal of Dr. Jones to the city of Pittsburgh. He has been actively engaged in professional pursuits up to the present time, still occupying the same office in which his first prescription was written. He served as a volunteer surgeon at Gettysburg, and was captured by the Confederates, but managed to escape. In 1869 he was instrumental in securing the reorganization of the County Medical Society, which had not held a meeting for twenty-five years, being elected its president. In 1871 he went to San Francisco, Cal., to attend a meeting of the American Medical Association. Besides various articles on miscellaneous subjects, published in newspapers and magazines, he is the author of the following scientific papers, viz.: “Malformations of the Genito-Urinary Organs,” “Belladonna as an Antidote for Opium-Poisoning,” “Medical Delusions,” “Reports of Cases to State Medical Society,” 1870-72, “Iliac Aneurism Cured by Electrolysis,” 1875, “The Physiology of Death,” and various reports published in the “Transactions of the State Medical Society.” He is a member of the Fayette County Medical Society, the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, the American Medical Association, the Rocky Mountain Medical Association, and an honorary member of the California State Medical Society.

History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882, page 479. View the image of this page online - Free Trial  More Fayette 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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