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has gone to his reward. In losing him each of us has lost a personal friend. We loved him. DR. JOHN CAMPBELL SHERIDAN, a popular and progressive physician of Johnstown, this county, and an Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Mason, was born December 8, 1853, in Johnstown. His father is the venerable and highly-respected Dr. Campbell Sheridan, whose sketch appears elsewhere. His mother was Emily W. Speer, of New England Puritan stock.     The common schools of Johnstown, Glade Run academy, of Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, and the Edinboro State Normal school are the mediums through which Dr. Sheridan obtained his mental training and education. The profession of medicine, as a means of securing a livelihood, was to his liking, and for the purpose of preparing himself for the duties of that profession, he entered Rush Medical college, Chicago, Ill., from which he graduated in 1879. He at once located in Johnstown and began his life-work in the midst of those with whom he had been reared, and from the start has been eminently successful. He possesses an affable manner and a sympathetic disposition that make him well liked socially as well as professionally. Progressive in everything, whether it pertains to the general welfare of the people at large or the elevation of his profession, he is a member of a number of organizations whose objects are to cultivate fraternal professional feeling and to stimulate scientific research. Among them are the following: The Cambria County Medical society, The Pennsylvania State Medical society, The National Association of Railway Surgeons and The Baltimore and Ohio Association of Rail-

way Surgeons. He is the surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway company, and was one of the incorporators of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial hospital, of which he is also one of the board of managers and a member of the surgical staff.     In Masonic circles, no less than as a physician and a citizen, he is prominent and popular. He is a member of Cambria Lodge, F. and A. M.; Portage Chapter, R. A. M.; Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar, Syria Temple (Pittsburg), Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is an Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Mason.     In those emergencies which arose in connection with the memorable flood of 1889, in which medical assistance and surgical aid were necessary, Dr. Sheridan was most prompt to render whatever assistance was within his power, and as director of the Bedford Street hospital, did most efficient service. He was appointed medical inspector by the State, in which capacity he rendered valuable aid and contributed largely towards securing proper sanitary conditions for the city. He served also as surgeon of the Fifth regiment, N. G. P., with the rank of surgeon-general. From 1890 to 1894 he was a member of the board of pension examiners for Cambria county.     Dr. Sheridan and Etta C. Haight, daughter of William R. Haight, of Earlville, Illinois, were united in marriage, and their union has been blessed in the birth of four children: Emily Eula, Jessie Ruth, John and William Rutherford. CLARENCE R. CLAGHORN, graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, geologist, mining and mechanical engineer, who is now the efficient and popular superintendent of the Vinton Coal company, is a son of

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