Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Crosthwaite MD, D. Wilmont February 22, 1857 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

D. WILMOT CROSTHWAITE, M.D.,
is a graduate from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania,
who has been a practicing physician since 1881, and has built up a large and
lucrative practice in the city of Altoona. He is a son of Hiram V. and Anna
M. (Blair) Crosthwaite, and was born February 22, 1857, at Bellefonte, Centre
county, Pennsylvania. The family is of English extraction. Mr. Crosthwaite
(grandfather) lived most of his life in Centre county, this State, to which
he removed when a young man. He was a wheelwright by trade, married, and had
a family of children. He died in Centre county at an advanced age. His son,
Hiram V. (father), was born September 3, 1825, and was a native of Centre
county, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood, and received a good common
school education. In 1863 he removed to Blair county, and located at Altoona,
where he still resides. He is a blacksmith and engine builder by trade, and in
politics a stanch republican. He married Anna M. Blair, and to their union was
born a family of two sons and a daughter: Anna, married J.E. Wingard, of
Columbus, Ohio, who is in the employ of the Panhandle railroad; B. Herbert,
who studied medicine, graduated from the Keokuk Medical college, and is now
practicing at Bennington, Ottawa county, Kansas; and D. Wilmot, the subject
of this sketch.
      Dr. D. Wilmot Crosthwaite was reared and educated in Altoona, and,
after graduating from the High school of this city, embarked in the drug
business here. He was thus engaged for a period of seven years, when he
entered the office of Dr. G. E. Brehman, now deceased, and began the study of
medicine. Later he matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania, and was
graduated from the medical department of that institution in 1881 with the
degree of M.D. He shortly after opened an office in the city of Altoona,
where he has met with a good degree of success. He makes a specialty of
obstetrics and diseases of women, and is winning reputation as a skillful and
successful physician. He is a close student of his profession, and endeavors
always to keep abreast of the advancing knowledge of medicine, and its
application to the cure of disease.
      On January 2, 1880, Dr. Crosthwaite was united in marriage to Ida F.
Elliott, a daughter of Christopher H. Elliott. This union has been blessed by
the birth of one child, an only daughter, named Annetta M. W. 
      Dr. Crosthwaite is a republican in politics, and while taking little
part in the heated contests between opposing parties, he steadily exerts his
influence and casts his vote in favor of the general policy of his party. He
is a member of the Altoona Academy of Medicine and Surgery, of the Blair
County Medical society, and the American Medical association. He is also a
member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, the Improved Order of Heptasophs,
and Knights of Pythias.

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