Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Ewing MD, Cicero M. August 14, 1840 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

CICERO M. EWING, M.D.,
one of the leading physicians of Blair county, who has been in successful
practice at Tyrone for nearly twenty years, is a son of Andrew and Drusilla
(Scott) Ewing, and was born August 14, 1840, in the Ligonier valley,
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania.  The family is of Scotch-Irish
extraction.  Robert Ewing (grandfather) was a native of Westmoreland county,
this State, a farmer by occupation, and died on his farm there in 1854, at
the advanced age of eighty-two years.  He served in the war of 1812, and
during the early Indian disturbances in his vicinity, when the whites were
forced to retreat to Fort Ligonier.  He was a member and elder of the
Presbyterian church, and married Elizabeth Salisbury, by whom he had a family
of seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Andrew Ewing (father) was
born on the old homestead, and lived there for a number of years, when he
removed to Ligonier, where he continued to reside until the time of his
death, he being one of the victims of the Johnstown flood in 1889. He and one
son had started to visit his sons, John Ewing and the subject of this sketch,
at Tyrone, and on reaching Johnstown was engulfed in the maelstrom that
wrought such ruin in the Conemaugh valley as to render it historic for all
time to come. Like many another unfortunate who lost his life in that
terrible disaster, his remains were never recovered, and no one knows where
his dust reposes.  In politics he was a democrat, and an active and
influential member of the Presbyterian church at Ligonier.  He was tweice
married.  First to Drusilla Scott, in 1837, to whom were born two sons and a
daughter: Louisa, deceased; Cicero M., the subject of this sketch; and John,
who married Mary Hoover, resides at Tyrone, and is a travelling salesman for
W.T. Allen & Co., clothiers, of Philadelphia.  Mrs. Drusilla Ewing died March
8, 1843.  Mr. Ewing then wedded Ruth Clark, and to this union were born six
children, three of whom died in infancy.  Those who survived are: Jackson S.,
a druggist, of Tyrone, who is also at present engaged in the furniture
business; Sarah J., married Samuel Overcosh, a farmer of Westmoreland county;
and Elizabeth D., married Edward Lohr, a carriage manufacturer, of Latrobe,
Westmoreland county.  The mother still survives, and resides with her
daughter, Sarah Overcosh, at Ligonier.
      Cicero Ewing received a good education in the common and select schools
of his native county, and at the age of twenty one years began reading
medicine with Dr. L.T. Beam, of Ligonier, who perished in the Johnstown
flood.  Later he entered the Philadelphia Medical and Surgical university,
from which he was graduated February 22, 1866, and began the practice of
medicine at Strongstown, Indiana county.  He remained there for nearly three
years, when he removed to Greenville, same county, where he practiced until
April, 1873, at which time he located in Tyrone.  Here he has ever since been
engaged in private practice, and on account of his thorough knowledge of his
profession, and his great skill in combatting disease, he has become
deservedly popular as a physician, and enjoys a large and lucrative practice.
      In the fall of 1861, Dr. Ewing enlisted at Ligonier as a private in Co.
E, 11th Pennsylvania infantry (Captain McCurdy's company), but remained with
the company only six weeks before being discharged on account of physical
disability.  In 1865 he again enlisted, this time in Company E, 211th
Pennsylvania infantry, and was assigned to duty as acting hospital steward. 
He aided in the organization of this company, and was tendered the position
of second steward, but declined the proffered honor, preferring to serve in
the line of his profession.
      On December 25, 1866, Dr. Ewing was united in marriage to Mary Roberts
of Indiana county, and to them were born two children: Cora E., and Jesse,
the latter now deceased. Mrs. Ewing died in 1871, and two years later Dr.
Ewing wedded Mary Duncan, also a native of Indiana county.  To this union
have also been born two children: Cecil A., and May D.
      In politics Dr. Ewing is a staunch republican, and has served one term
as school director.  He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Tyrone, of which he is now a trustee, and which he served as steward
for twelve years in succession.  His career as physician has been successful
and honorable, and he is eminently worthy of the wide popularity he enjoys.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Christy Stiles

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