DR.
GEORGE D. BAGNALL, a practicing physician of Jackson Centre, Mercer
County, was born December 12, 1866, in Worth township, Mercer county,
where he attended the public schools and graduated from Grove City
College in 1885. For one year he was also a student at Wooster
University and in 1890 was graduated from the University of Illinois,
since which time he has been practicing medicine at Jackson
Centre. The doctor has attained high standing and a substantial
practice, owning perhaps the finest residence property in the village,
in his political choice he votes the Republican ticket, in his
fraternal affairs he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.
Of the father, Dr. George Bagnall, it may be said that
he was born in Mercer county in 1824, and attended the schools
common to that day and location, he was graduated both from the Western
Reserve College (class of 1850) and the Jefferson Medical College of
Philadelphia he practiced medicine in Millbrook for fifty years, and
died in 1807. The deceased was a member of the Presbyterian church and
in politics a Republican. Dr. George Bagnall, the father, married
Fannie Bland, who died in 1887. She was the daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Storr) Uland, early residents, in their married life, of
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania and later of Cool Spring township, this
county, where the father was a leading stock-raiser. Dr. and Fannie
Bagnall had children as follows: Mary, who became the wife of George
Smith, of Los Angeles, California; Elizabeth, who married William T.
Jacobs, a farmer of Jackson township; Emma, wife of Rev. John C.
Breckenridge, manager of Winona Assembly; Sidonia, who became the wife
of Dr. W. O Anderson, of Trenton, New Jersey; William Palister, a
veterinary surgeon of Oil City, Pennsylvania, who married Julia Jacobs;
Dr. George D., of this memoir; and Charles H. a veterinary surgeon of
Franklin, Pennsylvania.
Dr. George D. Bagnall, son of Dr. George
Bagnall, was united in marriage September 23, 1891, to Miss Lotta
Campbell, daughter of William and Nancy (Spence) Campbell, of Jackson
township. By this union the following children were born George Leroy,
August 7, 1894; and William Paul, September 30, 1896.
Source: Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, 1909, pages 860-861
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