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Daggette, Dr. Alvin St Clair, whose offices are located at 400 South Craig Street
is one of the best known and most popular physicians in the city of Pittsburgh.
His ancestors were among the first settlers of Allegheny county, Penna. His
paternal great grandfather, John Daggette, served from 1775 to 1782 in the
American army during the war of the Revolution, beign several times discharged
but each time re-enlisting. During his last enlistment from June to December
1782, he was a sergeant under Captain Sexton and Col Walbridge. After the war
he settled in Erie county, Penna, having formerly been a citizen of Vermont.
His son married Rachel Morton, whose great uncle Thomas Morton settled upon a
tract of land in 1767 in what is now Buena Vista in Allegheny county and
received a patent for it in 1771. Upon his death, this farm passed to his
nephew Allen Morton, the father of Rachel, who was the grandmother of Dr
Daggette, and who inherited the farm at the death of her father. It was upon
the farm that Dr Alvin S Daggette was born March 17, 1856. His parents were
John Morton Daggette and Mary (McColly) Kelly Daggette, who had inherited the
old Morton homestead. Dr Daggette is the second of a family of six children.
The others in the order of their ages were: Mary Ra Laura; Olive T who died in
1883; Kate Emma, wife of Noah Rhodes, cashier of the Smithton Bank at Smithton,
Penna; Bertie Wallace, who with the eldest daughter still lives upon the
homestead; and Frank Summerfield, a member of the W W McBride paper comany of
Pittsburg. Dr Daggette received his early education in the common schools of
Allegheny county. This was supplemented by a course in the state normal school
at Indiana, Penna, after which he taught in the schools of his native township
for several years. Deciding to enter the medical profession, he atteneded the
Western Reserve medical school at Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from the
medical department of that institution March 2, 1881.
After graduating he first located at Shaner Station, Westmoreland county,
Penna, where he was engaged in general practice until November, 1886, when he
removed to Pittsburgh. In his new location he soon succeeded in establishing a
large practice and he is one of the most popular family physicians in the
city.His work is of a general character including all branches of medicine and
surgery. He is a member of the Allegheny county and Pennsylvania state medical
societies; the Academy of sciences and art; and art society of Pittsburg; the
American association for the advancement of science; and is president of the
Western Reserve alumni association of Western Pennsylvania. He is also member
and deacon of the Bellefield Presbyterian church of Pittsburgh. Dr Daggette was
married May 7, 1885, to Miss Fannie Flotilla Prescott of Youghiogheny,
Westmoreland county, and they have one child, William Morton Clair Daggette.
While living at Shaner Station in Westmoreland county, Dr Daggette served on
the school board of Sewickley, and was also treasurer of the school funds. He
was also surgeon for the B & O Railroad relief association. In all of these
positions he won the confidence of his employers because he was always
attentive to their interests and prompt in the discharge of his duties. The
same is true of his private patients. They know that he can always be trusted
to come to their relief on short notice and his popularity is due as much to
his readiness to respond to the call of suffering as to his thorough knowledge
of the science of medicine.
Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal and genealogical. Vol. 1
pg. 179
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