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JAMES M. PEDICORD, M. D.,
physician and surgeon of Zanesville, was born in Lebanon, Indiana,
Sept. 13, 1867, and is the youngest son of Zachariah and Laura
(Murphy) Pedicord, the former a native of Maryland and the
latter of Ohio. In his boyhood days Zachariah Pedicord
removed with his parents to Morgan county, Ohio, and subsequently
went to Indiana, where he followed the occupation of farming.
He became well-to-do through his carefully directed agricultural
interests and is now living a retired life in Morgan county,
superintending his large farm, which is operated by hired help.
He is a member of the Baptist church and in his political views is a
republican.
Dr. Pedicord pursued a common-school education
and acquired his professional training in Starling Medical College,
which he attended for a year, and in the Ohio Medical University
from which he was graduated with the class of 1893. He
afterward spent eighteen months in a sanitarium at Battle Creek,
Michigan, as a student and he entered upon his practice as a
physician in McConnelsville, in 1894. He remained there for
eight years and in 1903 came to Zanesville, where he has since been
practicing successfully, making a specialty of electrical and x-ray
treatments. He is an expert in massage treatments and his
office is thoroughly equipped with all the modern devices which aid
the physician in his efforts to restore health.
Dr. Pedicord was married Oct. , 1897 to Miss
Cora Armstrong, who was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, and was
a nurse at the sanitarium while he was a student there. They
have two children, Ellen Marjory and James M.
Fraternally The Doctor is connected with the knights of Pythias and
the Camels and politically with the republican party. During
the period with the republican party. During the period of his
practice in Zanesville, although it has been of brief duration, he
has gained a most creditable patronage such as many an older
physician might well envy. He has taken two courses in
scientific electrical treatment for chronic diseases, the first in
New York city and the second in Chicago. Thus he is well
prepared and fully equipped to render any service along that line.
He served as consulting physician at St. Luke's Hospital in Niles,
Michigan, being appointed to that position in 1899.
Source: Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and
Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co. - 1905 - Page 783 |
