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Hamilton D. Burroughs, M.D.
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Burroughs, Hamilton S., M.D., of Pittsburgh, Penna, a prominent general
practitioner of medicine, was born in Greene county, near Waynesburg,
Penna, and is the son of Talmage Burroughs, a retired farmer, and of his
wife, Jane Scott, both natives of Pennsylvania. His paternal grandfather,
Samuel Burroughs, was also a native of the Keystone state, having been
born in Brownsville about 1800. Young Burroughs attended the public
schools of Waynesburg, Penna, and Waynesburg college. He matriculated at
Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia, and was graduated from that
noted school in 1879 with the degree of doctor of medicine. On
graduation, Dr Burroughs began the practice of his profession at
Waynesburg where he met with much success, and in 1891 he removed to
Pittsburgh and has since prospered as a general practitioner in the
metropolis of Western Pennsylvania. He is a medical examiner for the
Equitable and Metropolitan life insurance companies, and is a member of
the Allegheny county, the Pennsylvania state and American medical
associations. He is prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity,
having taken the thirty second degree, is a member of the Odd Fellows,
the Pittsburgh alumni association of the Jefferson medical college, the
republican party, and is a member and deacon of the Shady Avenue Baptist
church.
Dr Burroughs was married in 1882 to Margaret A, daughter of Samuel and
Martha Milliken Hopkins of Waynesburg, Penna, her father being a
prosperous farmer and her mother a descendant of the early settlers of
Greene county. They have one child, Samuel Gross Burroughs, attending the
Margaretta public school of East End, Pittsburg.
Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal and genealogical.
Vol. 1 p 58
Contributed by Marta Burns.
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