Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Books MD, Dr. Clarence Hamilton June 18, 1872 - March 2, 1910
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Source: Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911
Author: Jesse C. Sell

CLARENCE HAMILTON BOOKS. M.D., deceased. In the death of Dr. Clarence Books,
at his home at Barbara, Pa., on March 2, 1910, Blair County lost a worthy
citizen and the medical profession a skillful and conscientious practitioner.
He was born at Roaring Spring, Blair County, Pa., June 9, 1872, and was a son
of Abraham F. and Sarah (Henry) Books, the latter of whom is deceased.
     Dr. Books was a self-made man, having made his own way in life from the
time he was twelve years old. From boyhood it was his cherished ambition to
finally become a doctor of medicine, but little encouragement was given his
aspirations and his educational opportunities were confined to the public
schools of Roaring Spring. At the age of twelve he entered the employ of the
P.R.R. Company, and learned telegraphy under Mr. Sam. A. Hamilton of Roaring
Spring. He soon became an expert in receiving messages, being one of the
ablest in the employ of the company.
     After thirteen years' service, he left the employ of the company in
order to prepare himself for his chosen work in life; and, after doing
preparatory work at a Roaring Spring summer normal school and the University
of Valparaiso, at Valparaiso, Ind., he finally entered the University of the
South, at Sewanee, Tenn., where he was graduated in the medical department in
1900. He took a special course in operative surgery, and in diseases of
children.
     Coming back to Pennsylvania, he took the State Board examination and
located at Mines, where he built up a substantial practice and at the same
time, through a winning personality, won many friends. During the summer of
1908 he took postgraduate work in Philadelphia, but owing to ill health he
practiced medicine only a few months after his return. When he found himself
in the grip of the "white plague," he moved from Martinsburg, where he had
lived for the past year, to his farm at Barbara, where he died on the above
mentioned date.
     Dr. Books never took any very active part in politics but was a
Republican in his views. He was a member of the Church of God, having early
in life identified himself with that denomination.
     On April 13, 1901, Dr. Books was married to Miss Nannie J. Nugent, a
daughter of Willis J. and Mary (Bolger) Nugent, both deceased, who were
former residents of Cherry Tree, Indiana County, Pa. He is survived by his
wife and one little daughter, Mary Sarah.

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