Dr. Alvin St Clair Daggette

 


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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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