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Facts and Events
Dr. William Magaw
- Dr. William Magaw, practiced medicine in Mercersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Meadville (PA.) Friday, Nov. 16, 1962. Newspaper Clipping, Unknown.
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TWICE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY of William Magaw, M.D., is stone marking grave in Greendale Cemetery. Mayor William C. Arthur stands beside marker which he discovered some 20 years ago lying on its face. Considering it “his patriotic duty,” he says, he had foundation replaced and Dr. Magaw’s memorial re-erected. Dr. Magaw, Revolutionary War Veteran “who departed this life May 1, 1829, aged 85 years,” lived last two years of life in Meadville.
Memorial in Greendale Cemetery Marks Grave of Revolutionary War Physician.
The memory of a physician, dead for more than 133 years. Who earned the “confidence and esteem of the great and good Washington,” is preserved in stone in Greendale Cemetery.
Dr. William Magaw’s memorial might have been lost to posterity if William C. Arthur, now mayor of Meadville, had not decided one day some 20 years ago, to walk through the cemetery because the rhododendrons were in bloom.
He stumbled on the marker lying on its face where it had fallen from its foundation. After reading the inscription, a dondensed biography of the Revolutionary War veteran. Mayor Arthur decided it was his “patriotic duty” to resotre the memorial…
Engraved deeply in the top half of the stone are the words,
“Erected to the memory of William Magaw, M. D., who departed this life May 1, 1829: aged 85 years.
Below, in smaller letters, some of them worn by time into near obliteration, is the history:
“The deceased embarked in the cause of his country at the dawn of the Revolution and served throughout all its privations until its close, with the confidence and esteem of the great and good Washington. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati and died as he had lived, beloved and respected by all who knew him, as an ardent Patriot, upright man and exemplary Christian.”
Dr. Magaw lived in Meadville for only the last two years of his life. Probably never practicing medicine here. His sons, Samuel B., Jesse and William had been here for about 20 years before his arrival. William Magaw later became prominent in Meadville history when he built a papermill on Woodcock Creek…
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