Dr. Henry G. Lomison

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Student, 1850, Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Living at a boarding house owned by Charles Sampers.

His age is given as 30.

• Property: From The Progressive Men of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Among those at Greensburg, Pennsylvania should be mentioned, on East Alterman Street, a structure much needed in the borough, The Lomison Opera House, with conveniences for a thousand sitters, and supplied with full sets of scenery, together with unusually commodious dressing-rooms.

• Property: From The Progressive Men of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Among those at Greensburg, Pennsylvania should be mentioned the Dixon House.

• Property: Keaggy building inherited by J B Keaggy from Dr. H G Lomison, 1894, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. From Images of America, Greensburg by P. Louis DeRose, Nov 1, 2004

• Gravestone: From Find a Grave, May 1895, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. H. G. Lomison
Birth: Jul. 17, 1822
Death: May 28, 1895
Burial:
Saint Clair Cemetery
Greensburg
Westmoreland County
Pennsylvania, USA
Created by: Franny
Record added: Nov 28, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 101403865

• Biography: From The Progressive Men of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1900. The Progressive Men of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In Two Volumes
Volume I
Compiled and Edited by Col. Charles Blanchard
Logansport, Indiana
A. W. Bowen & Co.
1900

DR. HENRY G. LOMISON, who enjoyed the distinction of being one of the leading and most popular physicians of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania was of English stock on his paternal side, and of Dutch lineage on his maternal side. His emigrant ancestor, Lawrence Lomison, was a native of Bristol, England, from which place he took ship in 1682, and landed in Chester, then called Upland, Pennsylvania, December 11th of that year. Some time after his arrival he married an emigrant lady, a native of Holland, by the name of Van Kindel, and with her settled on lands near Germantown, Pennsylvania, where they became the parents of a large family, some of whom moved to Northampton County, Pennsylvania, others settling in Trenton, New Jersey, and Belvidere, in that State. Dr. Lomison was descended from the Belvidere branch, and is the son of William Lomison, who was born in Belvidere in 1788, and died in 1862, at the age of 74 years in Indiana County Pennsylvania.

Dr. Lomison's mother, was Anna Fulkerson, was the daughter of Colonel John Fulkerson, of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and a native of Holland; was born in 1787; she married William Lomison in 1811, and died December 11, 1856.

Mr. and Mrs. Lomison were the parents of eight children, of whom Dr. H. G. Lomison was the youngest. He was born July 17, 1822, near Danville, Columbia (now Montour) County, Pennsylvania; was reared upon the homestead farm, securing a common school education and instruction in Danville Academy. In 1838 he was employed by John Keaggy (father of Dr. Keaggy), on a canal boat, between Johnstown and Pittsburg, and the age of 19, after having for a year or two taught school, entered upon the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. James M. Stewart, of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, to which county the parents of Dr. Lomison had removed a little before that time, and eventually matriculating at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduated from that institution March, 1852, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession at Saltsburg, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. His capital stock at that time consisted of his general education, professional acquirements and books, a robust and powerful constitution, tireless energy, a horse, bridle and saddle, and a determination to excel. Thus equipped he made his way into a good and, not long after, a large and lucrative practice, which he pursued, with Saltsburg as his center of operations, uninterruptedly till the winter of 1858-59, which he spent in New York in attendance upon the course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

In the winter of 1859-60 he attended a course of medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, and in the spring of 1860 took up his residence in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and followed his profession until 1869, in which year he took a tour of eight months in Europe with the principal object of acquainting himself with the practice of medicine as administered in the chief hospitals of England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy, all of which he visited.

Returning he resumed practice, which he followed with the old love of his profession, his popularity as a physician constantly increasing. Dr. Lomison was a gentleman of great business ability and of public enterprise, and has made valuable improvements in real estate in the county and at the county seat by erecting edifices of various kinds. Among those at Greensburg, Pennsylvania should be mentioned the Dixon House, on Depot Street, and on East Alterman Street, a structure much needed in the borough, The Lomison Opera House, with conveniences for a thousand sitters, and supplied with full sets of scenery, together with unusually commodious dressing-rooms.

In addition to sedulous attention to his large professional business, Dr. Lomison found time to engage extensively in matters of real estate, with results which popular opinion declares extremely profitable. He is the possessor of over 1,600 acres of land in Westmoreland County, all underlaid with the celebrated Connellsville coking-coal, and much valuable real estate at Irwin and Greensburg, Pennsylvania, the value estimated at $700,000. In politics Dr. Lomison was a Democrat, and was in 1878 a candidate for nomination to Congress from the Twenty-first District of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of Westmoreland, Fayette, and Greene, and received the unanimous vote of his party in Westmoreland County. He was afterward urged by the party to go again before the people, but, while appreciating the confidence reposed in him by his multitudinous friends, declined on account of professional and other engagements. Obviously possessed of that good sense of the fitness of things which some other able physicians have manifested in the doctrine, vitally illustrated, that no man who loves his profession and is truly married to it has need of or right to any (other) wife, Dr. Lomison remained a bachelor until December 7, 1886. Both the priest and the doctor, both "father-confessors," and bound by the sanctities of their profession to guard well, in utter silence, the countless delicate secrets necessarily confided to them, should not be subjected to the temptation of a special, inquisitive family bosom, into which to be beguiled to pour the privacies of their subjects and patrons. He died May 28, 1895. He married Miss Anna McCausin, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1886; she died September 7, 1888, without an heir.

The brothers and sisters were John, a farmer (deceased), of Three Rivers, Michigan; Mary A. (deceased), February 3, 1875, at 84 years of age. She was the wife of John Keaggy, Sr., who also died about 1850; Jeremiah, merchant and farmer, of Indiana County, Pennsylvania; David (deceased), hotel proprietor, coal operator and merchant, of Donaldson, Pennsylvania; Margaret, deceased wife of John Barclay, also deceased; William, died in March 1895, a farmer of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. The father of these children was a miller and farmer. Those of the family who have turned their attention to any profession have largely entered the medical. Dr. Lomison let his mantle fall upon his nephew, Dr. J. B. Keaggy, who was a pupil of the doctor's, and afterward became an associate in practice, and whose portrait and biography follow this memoir.

Note: There is a similar biography posted on March 11, 2009 - 15:40 by Old Bios http://www.oldbios.com/pennsylvania/390/lomison-henry-g-dr. However, this version leaves out important information on the family and has several differences in dates and other facts contained in the above reference.

Henry married Anna McCausland, daughter of J. U. McCausland and Unknown, on 7 Dec 1886 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. (Anna McCausland was born on 14 Oct 1856 and died on 7 Sep 1888 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.)