BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.

Pages 698-699.

JAMES N. McMASTER, M. D., of Centerville, a well-known member of the medical
profession of Belmont county, is a native of that county, born at Jacobsburgh,
December 30, 1844. He is a son of Samuel McMaster, who was born in Pennsylyania,
December 26, 1813, the latter of whom was a son of Robert McMaster, also a
native Pennsylvanian, born August 10, 1793. On November 5, 1835, Samuel Mc-
Master was married to Sarah A. Gregory, and to this union were born seven sons
and five daughters, of whom the following survive: William W., of Richland
township; John W., of Wichita, Kas.; Thomas J., of Laing's, Ohio; Alexander W.,
of near Jacobsburgh; Emma S. Kramer, of Jacobsburgh, and Dr. James N. McMaster.
The latter was reared upon the farm until 1862, when he enlisted as a private
in the Ninth Ohio cavalry, and served valliantly for three years. He participated
in the campaigns in the southwest, and in Sherman's famous movement to Savannah
and through the Carolinas, after which he was honorably discharged at Lexington,
in North Carolina, in September, 1865. Returning home, he engaged in teaching
and reading medicine, and after previously attending the Starling Medical college
at Columbus, he was graduated in medicine at the Medical college of Ohio, at
Cincinnati, in 1870. He began the practice at Glencoe, Ohio, in partnership with
Dr. William Piper, but soon after his marriage to Susan E. Neff, which occurred
November 28, 1871, he removed to Centerville, where he has acquired an extensive
and lucrative practice. In addition to his practice, the doctor performs the
duties of notary public, as which he was commissioned by Govs. Hoadley and
Foraker. He is one of the charter members of W. Meyer lodge, No. 541, F. & A. M.,
of Centerville, and its secretary, and is surgeon of Hess post, G. A. R., of
Armstrong. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which
he is recording stewart for the circuit. By his marriage above mentioned, the
doctor has three children: Elva Lenora, born April 24, 1873; William Henry, born
September 17, 1875; Samuel E., born September 22, 1881.