The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-11-27
Of DR.. ".
H. MAREAN At
OCALA
Biographical Sketch of Well
Known Physician, Form
erly of This City.

The Ocala Banner of Saturday last,
contained the following relative to the
death OF DR.. w H. Marean, father OF
Mrs. B. s. Bernard and Mrs. r. ].
Owens, of this city, and who was form
erly resident of Pensacola:
After an illness extending over a
period OF several. weeks DR.. William
Henry Marean died at his residence in
this city Friday afternoon at one
O'Clock
While DR.. Marea1 was sick in on
room. his son, the late f. w. Marean,
lay sick in another and preceded him
to that bourne whence no traveller
returns only two days.
In their keen and intense sorrow
Mrs. Marean and her two daughters,
Mrs. Bernard and Mrs. Owens, of
Pensacola, have the deepest sympathy
OF this entire community.
DIR. Marean has been a citizen of
Ocala, with the exception of short
time when he resided at Pensacola,
since 1883 and walked in and out be-
fore our people leading blameless
life and his friends watched his fail,
ing health and lettering footsteps
with poignant sorrow.
We subjoin a biographical sketch
OF his life taken from the Biographical
Souvenir of the states of Georgia and
Florida.
Biographical Sketch.
VIM. Henry Maresn was born March
10, 1886, in HubbarGStown, Mass. His
father, William Marean, was also a
native of the same place and a promi-
nent citizen and merchant of Hub
bardstown for many years. His
mother, Miss Susan Browning, a ma
tive of Massachusetts and a daughter
of Captain John Browning of old revo-
lutionary stock, a distinguished man
whose ancestry dates its advent into
America from the ldnding Of the May
flower at Plymouth Rock
DR.. Marean was the only surviving
child of a family of six children. He
was educated in his, native state and
New York, taking a high school and
college course. In the year 1850 he
began the study of medicine under the
tuition of his uncle. DIR. John Brown
ing, then celebrated physician of
Mendon, n. Y. Hefe he prepared to
enter medical college, and graduated
from the New YORK Medical College
with high honors in 1855.
He then removed to Arkansas and
began the practice of medicine at
Fort Smith. He remained there until
the breaking out OF the late war in
1861. Then he went to st. Louis, Mo-,
and yielded to the earnest entreaties
of his kindred whose sympathies were
wholly with the north, he entered the
federal service, and was stationed at
Benton Barracks until the close of the
war
From St Louis DR.. Marean removed
to Memphis, Tenn, in 1866, and con-
tinued the practice of medicine with
eminent success. In 1874, wishing to
still further perfect his knowledge of
medical science, he went to Europe
and placed himself under the instruc-
ton of the renowned Professor John
Chapman, M. D., NJ. R. &C. p, M. R.
c. s., of the London Royal Academy of
Physicians. He returned to his native
land and the same year removed
with his family to Cairo, Ill. Here he
gained large and lucrative practise
and became famous for his success in
curing chronic diseases. amassed
property and thought he was comfort
ably settled for life in this thriving
city. But again the proverb illus
trated: Man proposes and God dis
poses" in this case; and in the year
1890 hfc xrrifn
hereditary tendency to pulmonary
complaints developed alarming symp,
toms of the approach of the
insiduous foe-consumption; and
the devoted husband saw with a
vision rendered clear, with his ia
miliarity in treating this disease, that
nothing but life in an almost tropical
climate would arrest the hand of the
fell destroyer. Accordingly the doctor
sacrificed his bright prospects in
Cairo, sold his property and removed
his family in 1883 to Ocala, Fla.
He invested his means in an orange
grove. and became interested in stock
raising and fruit culture. In this,
however, he was not successful, and
soon abandoned the venture, manfully
pocketed his great pecuniary loss. and
devoted his time exclusively to the
practice of his chosen profession. AS
had ever been the case when In pur-
suance of this, success again perched
itself upon the Doctors banner. and
mis- reputation as a most skillful and
eminently successful practitioner Is
fully established in the south-the
home of his adoption, and he had a
large practice we'll fitted for one of his
high scholarly attachments and ex-
perience.
DR.. Marean, although an indefatig-
able and close student, keeping pace
with all the progressive strides made
in materia medica. is a well preserv-
ed man, and in his quiet. gentleman
ly way makes hosts of friends, and
his name is held in high esteem by
all who know him.
His wife, by whom he has three
living children, was before her mar
riage Miss Isabelle Shuffleton, of
Iowa, and comes of a family distin-
guished for it's learning and high
prominence of many of its members