Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Laidley, Dr. J. B. August 21, 1830 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      J B Laidley, physician and surgeon, Carmichaels, 
Penna. Among the best known physicians in Greene County is 
the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is a son of 
Dr Thomas H Laidley and Sarah Barclay Laidley, and was born 
in Carmichaels, August 21, 1830. The Doctor's father was 
also a prominent physician, and practiced in Carmichaels and 
vicinity for over half a century. His grandfather, Thomas 
Laidley, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and his 
maternal grandfather, Hon Hugh Barclay, was a member of the 
Pennsylvania State Legislature in 1804. The doctor is the 
second in a family of twelve children, ten of whom are now 
living. He received his education at Greene Academy and 
subsequently studied medicine at the medical department of 
the University of Wooster, at Cleveland, Ohio, where he 
graduated March 1, 1856. He then returned to Carmichales 
where he has practiced continuously except during a part of 
the years 1861-1862 when he served as Surgeon of the Eighty 
fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. 
  
      In 1859 he was united in marriage with Mary E 
Galbraith, daughter of William Galbraith, who was for many 
years a prominent physician of Jefferson, in this county, 
where Mrs Laidley was born. They have three living children: 
William Galbraith Laidley; Edmund Wirt Laidley; and John 
Collier Laidley.
  
      Dr and Mrs Laidley are members of the M E Church in 
which he has been an official member since he united with 
the church. He has been school director for thirty years and 
has been known as a friend of education. He is a member of 
the GAR Post No 265 of Carmichaels, Penna.

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