Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-13
DR. EUGENE ORVILLE BARDWELL.
Marchl Died. Jan.
Died, Jan. 4, 1910

in readiness the DR.. replied in a strong
voice: Il am ready" He was perfect
ly conscious of his condition and wanted
to go to his departed wife, who died
March 24th last.
Thus closed the earthly career of one
of the brightest minds, as we'll as an
original character one seldom sees but
reads about-an enclycopaedia of know
ledge. Farewell, Doctor may we all
meet again in that great hereafter.
EUGENE ORvILLE BARDwBLL, NJ. D..
Emporium, was born in Warren county
Penn; March II, 1854. His father,
r. c. Bardwell also physician, was
native of Yates county, N. Y, and was
of Quaker descent. He married Mary
Browne, of English and German parent
age; and their eldest son was DR.. E. O.
Bardwell, the subject of this sketch.
There were four other children as issue
to this marriage, one of whom died in
infancy. The family moved to Penn
Yam, N. Y, wheh Eugene was but three
years old, and it was there that he re-
ceived his early education. At the age
of eleven he entered the Penn Yam Acad-
emy as a student, and passed the
Regents examination of the State of
New York at the age of twelve, an un-
usually early period in life, for one to
attempt, let alone pass, this difficult
probing into ones knowledge by the
faculty of an institution which is noted
throughout the State for it's high stand
ard OF marking in studies. In February
1870, he completed his course in the
medical department of the University of
Buffalo, graduating, as the Dean of the
College expressed it, cum ldude. In
April OF the same year the Doctor began
active practice at Emporium, Penn,
where, by his skill he soon won a large
clientage. He was made secretary of
Cameron County Medical Society not
long after his arrival in Emporium, and
in 1880 he was elected coroner by a
phenomenal majority, the head of the
ticket being defeated. In 1882 the
Doctor was sent as a delegate to the
Pennsylvania State Medical Society, of
which he was made member. This
society made him member of the State
district Board of Censors, and at its
next meeting he was elected secretary, a
position he held until he left the state.
In 1883 he was sent as delegate to the
State Society from Elk County Medical
Society, of which he was at the time
vlce-president. In the year 1884, DIR.
Bardwell moved to Moline, ILL.,, where
he practiced until called east by the seri-
GUS illness of his father. While in
Moline, DR.. Bardwell was made a men,
Der of the Iowa and Illinois Central
Medical Association, of the Rock Island
Medical Society, of the Davenport Acad-
emy of Natural Sciences, also secretary
nf Moline
Der of the staff and consulting physician
at st. Mary's Hospital in the city of Rock
Island. DIR. Bardwell is member of
the American Medical Association, and
was appointed as delegate to the Illinois
State Medical Society while in Moline.
During the fatal illness of Dr. r. r. G..
Bardwell, his son remained in Penn Van.
and while there was made a member of
Yates County Medical Society. Upon
the death of DR.. Bardwell, Sr., in 1886.
the subject of this sketch, at the earnest
solicitation of prominent citizen of
Emporium, returned to that place, and
at once assumed n large and lucrative
practice. Politically the Doctor is a Re-
publican, and religiously a pronounced
| agnostic. On May 5, 1888, he was mar
ried to Miss Elizabeth Evans, of EN-
porium, a daughter of Hiram and Cynthia
(Loder) Evans, both natives of this
State, and of Quaker descent. The
Doctor takes particularly active inter
est in the fire department of Emporium.
He was the first foreman of the Noun
taineer Hose Company, the first uniform
ed company of the place, and to his skill
in organization and drill, much of the
departments efficiency is due. He
resigned the position of foreman in
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