BIO: John C. McCAULEY, Beaver County, PA
    
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    BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
    of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
    Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 163-164.
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    DR. JOHN C. McCAULEY. The borough of Rochester. as regards her
  practitioners of medicine, is unsurpassed by any other in the state of
  Pennsylvania. There are located within its limits, men who have practiced for
  many years and who have attained far more than local distinction, being
  classified with the leading men of the district. Standing prominently to the
  front is the gentleman whose name heads these lines, a representative of the
  younger generation of physicians. He is young in years, but hard and
  continued study in a renowned medical institution, combined with a natural
  bent for the profession, has given him that skill which ordinarily requires
  years of experience to acquire. He is in high standing in Rochester, and
  among his large num-
    
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  ber of patients are numbered men of prominence throughout this section of the
  state. He is a native of Rochester, and is a son of Leander and Martha M.
  (Andrews) McCauley.
    
    David McCauley, the great-grandfather of our subject, was born in County
  Armagh, Ireland, and lived there until his death. His wife; Jane (Corran),
  with her son Robert and her other children, came to America in 1819, settling
  in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Robert McCauley, who was the grandfather of the
  subject hereof, was twenty-one years of age when he came to this country. He
  possessed a superior education, and his vocation in life was that of an
  instructor, teaching in Pittsburg and in Sewickley township, Beaver county,
  Pennsylvania. In 1825, he purchased a farm of 250 acres in New Sewickley
  township, which is now owned by his children, and there resided until his
  death at the age of seventy years. He married Mary Mitchell, a daughter of
  John and Elizabeth (Patterson) Mitchell, who died at the age of eighty-two,
  and their children were: John; David C.; Leander; Robert P.; James;
  Elizabeth, the wife of James Mathews; Mary, who became the wife of Dr. S. H.
  Andrews; Emiline; and Martha, who married Joseph Briggs. Mr. McCauley was an
  active Democrat in his day, and served as assessor and in other township
  offices. Religiously, he was a member of the Presbyterian church.
    
    Leander McCauley attended the public schools and Freedom academy, after
  which he engaged as a teacher in the schools of Beaver county and also in the
  state of Ohio. In 1857, he removed to Williams county, Ohio, where he
  purchased a saw mill, and operated it for a period of five years. He then
  took up carpentering and pattern making, and later carried on farming on the
  old homestead for twenty-one years. In 1897, he retired to the town of
  Rochester, where he erected him a fine home and has since lived. He married
  Martha M. Andrews, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Harnit) Andrews, of Enon
  Valley, Lawrence county, Pa., and four children were born to them, as follows:
  Wilfred James, who died in infancy; John C., the subject hereof; Mary M., who
  died at the age of sixteen years; and E. S. H., a physician and surgeon, of
  Beaver. Religiously, the family are Presbyterians.
    
    Dr. John Corran McCauley, after completing his preliminary education in the
  public schools, began the study of medicine with J. S. Boyd, M. D., of New
  Brighton, Pennsylvania. He entered into his work with characteristic energy,
  and in 1890 was graduated from the Homeopathic Medical College, of Cleveland,
  fully qualified for his chosen profession. He immediately located at
  Rochester, where he succeeded to the practice of Dr. G. H. Smith. He has
  built up an extensive patronage, and enjoys the confidence and good will of
  his fellow-citizens to the fullest extent. In 1893, he built a fine residence
  in Rochester, with an office in connection. He is a member of the Beaver
  County Homeopathic Medical Society; the State Homeopathic Medical Society;
  and the American Institute of Homeopathy. He is also a member of the board of
  censors of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. He is also on the staff
  of the Beaver Valley Hospital.
    
    Dr. McCauley was united in marriage with Jennie C. Parks, a daughter of
  Theodore Parks, of New Sewickley township, Beaver county, and they have one
  child, Mary E., born March 28, 1897.