“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

T.B. McCURDY, M.D.,  is the oldest practicing physician in the village of Lancaster, this 
county, having resided here for a period of thirty-one years.  He was born in Muskingum 
county, Ohio, January 23, 1829, and is of Scotch-Irish and English extraction.  His father, 
John McCurdy, a Pennsylvanian by birth, came originally of Scotch-Irish ancestry, while 
his mother, nee Mary Briceland, a native also of Pennsylvania, was of English descent.  
The Doctor’s parents moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio about 1820, settling at 
Washington, where they spent the closing years of their lives, the father passing away in 
1860, at the age of ninety years, and the mother a few years later, aged seventy-five.  
They were the parents of three children:  the subject of this sketch, one that died in 
infancy, and a daughter who died soon after reaching maturity.  John McCurdy was an 
architect by profession, and followed his calling actively throughout the long life allotted 
to him.  In this way he became a resident, at different times, of many places in his 
adopted State, and by reason of this fact the subject of this notice passed his boyhood and 
youth in widely scattered localities.  In 1852 he began the study of medicine in the office 
of the late Prof. Abraham Metz, graduated at Charity Hospital Medical College, took a 
post-graduate course at Jefferson Medical College, and received the degree of M.D. from 
the medical department of the University of Wooster and also from the Western Reserve 
Medical College.

Submitted by L.Pingel