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| Photo: Mary E. Smith |
| Township: Sullivan Township, Tioga County
PA |
| of Sanitarium Hill Sullivan
Township Page |
| Year: 1870 |
Photo from Smith-Tice family album owned by
Joyce M. Tice |
| Name |
Mary Elizabeth Smith |
| Birth date and place |
20 MAR 1848
Sullivan Township |
| Death date and place |
23 JUL 1926
Sullivan Township |
| Cemetery |
Wood Cemetery |
| Parents |
Sally A. Roblyer
Northrup Smith |
| Spouses |
unmarried |
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| Mary Elizabeth Smith, like three of her siblings, became a homeopathic
physician. Prior to that she taught school. One of her brothers, Dr. Augustus
Smith, practiced medicine in Pittsburg and he and others sent their
tuberculosis patients to the Smith Family Sanitarium in Sullivan Township
for the cure. Patients came into Columbia Cross Roads on the trains and
traveled the few miles through Austinville to the sanitarium just west
of the Bradford County - Tioga County boundary. To this day the hill is
called Sanitarium Hill. Doc Mary, as she was called locally, ran the sanitarium
until her death in 1926
Wellsboro Gazette, June 17, 1903
The Smith Sanitarium has been removed from Pittsburg and will be reopened
July 1st in Sullivan township on the homestead of the late Northrup Smith.
His children were nearly all physicians and such a use of his home seems
highly fitting. |
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The original sanitarium building, shown in this picture, burned to
the ground and was replaced by a smaller building which remains as a residence
to the present day. The earlier building had many rooms and two stories
of wrap around porches. Mail was delivered to the Austinville road below
the sanitarium and was pulled up via an arrangement of pullies. A well
was in the basement of the building making it unecessary to go outside
for water as was required in most dwellings of the day. |
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Wellsboro Gazette, August 7, 1912
Dr. Mary Smith, of the Smith Sanitarium, announces the engagement of
her niece, Achsa Marie Smith, to Henry Wright. The marriage will take place
in the near future. - Mansfield Advertiser