Dr. John Wesley Bickford was born on May 30, 1848, in Keene, Iona
County, Michigan. He grew up mainly in Orleans County, New York, after
1860, after his mother died and his father moved back to New York. He
was educated at Albion Academy in Albion, New York, and attended Medical
School at the University of Buffalo Medical School, graduating in 1881.
He practiced medicine in Lockport, New York, beginning in 1882, and also
practiced in Somerset and other small towns in Orleans County.
John was a member of the Niagra County Medical Society and was Physician
of Lockport from the spring of 1889 to August 1, 1891. He was a Mason,
Red Jacket Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Ames Chapter #88, and in the
Genesee Commandery #10, Knights Templar and John Hodge Lodge #69. At the
time of his death he was a jail physician and medical examiner fgor the
Ancient Order of United Workmen. He died on January 30, 1911.
He
married Fannie Gibson, born April 4, 1858. She died at Gasport, Town of
Royalton, Niagra County, New York, on March 6, 1959, at over 100 years
of age. They had no children and both are interred at Cold Springs
Cemetery, Lockport.
Persona John was the son of Guilda Ann
Stisser and Samuel E. Bickford. Guilda (or Guida) was a sister to my
great grandfather. She, with her other sister, Maraget, and their
hiusbands moved to Iona County, Michigan, in about 1848. Both Margaret
and Guida died in about 1857 in Marengo, Calhoun County, Michigan. She
died of consumption.
Contributed 1999 by Unknown.
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