Frederick Whittlesey, M.D., p. 113

FREDERICK WHITTLESEY, M. D., for nearly forty years a resident of the borough of Washington, and one of the leading physicians of the county, is a native of Ohio, having been born in Atwater township, Portage county, March 6, 1830.

The family name is one of prominence in the Buckeye State. John H. Whittlesey, grandfather of the Doctor, was the fifth person to settle in Atwater township, Portage Co., Ohio, making a home for himself and family in the wild woods. He was a solder in the war of 1812. Elisha Whittlesey, who was a member of congress from 1823 to 1839, and first comptroller of the U. S. Treasury for nearly thirty years, and William Whittlesey, who represented his district in the Ohio State Senate in 1839, and was elected to Congress in 1848, and also Charles Whittlesey, the State geologist of Ohio, were near relatives. Friend Whittlesey, cousin of our subject, is a member of the present Ohio Legislature.

John B. Whittlesey, father of Dr. F. Whittlesey, now aged eighty-seven years, is still living in Ohio, where he has followed farming. He was married, in 1828, to Emelin Mix, of Atwater, who died in Portage county, Ohio, in 1866, leaving four children: Frederick (subject), Mary (now deceased), Emma (wife of Rev. Wilson, of Canton, Ohio), and Charles (killed on the railroad in 1867, when thirty-five years of age); Julia Helen, the third child in order of birth, died in infancy.

Frederick Whittlesey received his literary education entirely in his native county, where he also read medicine, finishing his studies in 1855. He then commenced the practice of his profession in Portage county, but in 1856 he came to this county, taking up his residence in Washington, where he has since remained and built up an enviable practice which extends to all portions of the State, his specialty being chronic diseases. In 1851 the doctor was united in marriage with Miss Laura L. Teel, of Alliance, Ohio, who died in 1853, leaving one child, Josephine, wife of Amos Benjamin, of Portage county, Ohio. In 1855 the Doctor was married, the second time, to Mrs. Hannah Chittedon, of Youngstown, Ohio, who died June 3, 1892. Socially the Doctor is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, in which he held the position of D. D. G. M. for ten successive years, and is the present treasurer of the Chapter and Commandery. In politics he is a Republican. The Doctor is not a member of any church. His religious views are inclined to agnostic, and while very decided in his opinions, he is not in the habit of thrusting his ideas upon others whom he has reason to believe differ with him. He believes that enlightened human reason, untrammeled by prejudice, is the highest tribunal known to man, and that every rational being has a right to decide for himself all questions pertaining to his present or future welfare.

Text taken from page 113 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).

Transcribed April 1997 by Wilbur Frye of Pacifica, CA as part of the Beers Project.
Published April 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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