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BIOGRAPHIES
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
HISTORY OF
BELMONT and JEFFERSON COUNTIES,
OHIO,
AND
INCIDENTALLY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
PERTAINING TO
BORDER WARFARE AND THE EARLY SETTLEMENT
of the
ADJACENT PORTION OF THE OHIO VALLEY,
By J. A. Caldwell
with Illustrations
Assistant, G. G. Nichols
Managing Editor, J. H. Newton
(Assistant, A. G. Sprankle.
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WHEELING, W. VA.
PUBLISHED BY THE HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1880
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Barnesville -
M. W. O'BRIEN, M. D., son of Matthew and
Hannah Caroline O'Brien nee Harrison was born in
Baltimore, Md., in 1855. Matthew O'Brien was an early
storekeeper at Fairview, being for some time a partner of one of the
Bradshaws. He removed to Baltimore and subsequently was
engaged in the wholesale dry goods business. He died in May,
1878, in Alexandria, Va., sixty-four years of age. He married
Miss Harrison in Alexandria, Va. She is yet living in
Washington, D. C. Our subject's grandfather was banished from
Ireland, came to Virginia in 1799, and died in 1811 at an advanced
age.
Our subject acquired his academic education at St.
John's Academy, Alexandria, Va., came to Barnesville in September,
1872, and for nearly four years read medicine with Dr. G. S.
Wellons. He attended two sessions of the Medical College
of Ohio, Cincinnati, from which institution he graduated with
distinction on the 2d of March, 1876. He then formed a
partnership with his preceptor, and has been engaged in the active
practice of his profession ever since. He is at present health
officer of Barnesville.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio,
Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company -
1880 - Pg. 326 |
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