Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Humes MD, James R. October 18, 1847 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JAMES R. HUMES, M.D., 
of Hollidaysburg, is one of the widely known and most successful homeopathic
physicians of Blair county and central Pennsylvania. He is a son of John V.
and Elizabeth (Randolph) Humes, and was born in Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania, October 18, 1847. The Humes family is one of the old
Scotch-Irish families of the United States, and James Humes, the paternal
grandfather of Doctor Humes, was a native of Westmoreland County. He removed
to Allegheny county, where he purchased a farm, on which a portion of the
borough of Tarentum now stands. He was a democrat up to Lincoln's second
administration, when he became a republican, and of the ten sons whom he
reared all but one are republicans. He died in 1865, aged seventy-two years.
His son, John V. Humes (father), was born in Westmoreland county, and removed
to Allegheny county, where he has resided ever since. Some six years ago he
retired from farming and active business life, and has made his home since
that time in Tarentum. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and
a republican in political opinion, and has held several of his township's
offices. He married Elizabeth Randolph, who is a native of Allegheny county,
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. She is a daughter of Ichabod
Randolph, who left his native land of Wales and became a farmer in Allegheny
county, where he died in 1840, aged eighty years.
   James R. Humes was reared on his father's farm near Tarentum, and received
his education in the common schools, Tarentum academy, and Curry institute of
Pittsburg. He taught school for four years, and in 1871 entered the office of
Dr. C. H. Lee, of Tarentum, as a medical student. After completing the
required course of reading, he entered Hahnemann Medical college, of
Philadelphia, from which well known homeopathic institution he was graduated
in the class of 1874. Immediately upon graduation he opened an office at
Etna, Allegheny county, but during the latter part of 1874 came to
Hollidaysburg, where he has remained until the present time, and has a wide
and remunerative field of practice.
   On June 6, of the centennial year, Doctor Humes united in marriage with
Martha M. Huey, of Tarentum, Allegheny county. To Doctor and Mrs. Humes have
been born two children, one son and one daughter: Inez A. and John H.
   In politics Doctor Humes is a republican and has served two terms as a
member of the borough council. He is a steward and member of the
Hollidaysburg Methodist Episcopal church, of whose board of trustees he is
secretary and treasurer. He is a member of Juniata Lodge, No. 282, Free and
Accepted Masons; Mount Moriah Chapter, No. 166, Royal Arch Masons; and
Mountain Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar. He is a member of Hollidaysburg
Lodge, No. 119, and Apalachian Encampment, No. 69, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. He is also a member of Hollidaysburg Assembly, No. 11, of the
Artisans Order of Mutual Protection. Dr. James R. Humes came to Hollidaysburg
after it had been abandoned by several physicians of his school, and under
this discouraging outlook, by perseverance, skill, energy and untiring
application, he deserves the success which he has won. He now enjoys a large
practice and the confidence of his patients. Doctor Humes is a member of the
State Homeopathic Medical society, and by reading and study endeavors to keep
abreast of the medical advancement of the age.

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