Son of Catherine Russell McCoy and Archibald Thistle. Married to Sarah Olive/Olivia Bell on 25 DEC 1879.
Biography of Dr. Joseph L. Thistle
Washington County, PA Biographies
JOSEPH LONG THISTLE, M. D., comes of a notable Scotch Irish ancestry, many of whom were pioneer settlers in the Ohio Valley at the beginning of last century, and all of them were thrifty and early acquired valuable real estate. His paternal grandfather, Sampson Thistle, after marriage near Cumberland, Md., brought his bride, on horseback, to a clearing and cabin which be had previously prepared, about two miles above Fishing Creek on the Virginia side of the Ohio, where they lived to a ripe old age and brought up a family of eleven children. Dr. Thistle at present owns one half of these ancestral lands of nearly 900 acres.
Archibald Thistle, one of these children and father of the object of this sketch, entered his brother's store, as a partner, at the age of 18, and when 28 years old started in a general mercantile business at Sistersville, continuing uninterruptedly until his death at the age of 78. He was the wealthiest and one of the most respected citizens of his county. He was postmaster before, during and after the Civil War period, covering in all 26 years.
John McCoy, the maternal grandfather of Dr. Thistle, married Sarah Wells, one of the 22 children of Charles Wells, whose home was in what is now Brooke County, W. Va. To each of 20 of these children who lived to maturity their father gave a good river bottom farm, most of which he secured by patent from the state; others he bought from prior owners. To his daughters, Sarah (Wells) McCoy and Ruth (Wells) Brikhead, he gave the northern half of a valley, just midway between Wheeling and Parkersburg. In course of time these sisters decided to lay out a town site, one half of which should be upon either side of the line dividing their farms. After much discussion as to a name for the place Sarah suggested the appropriate and unique name of Sistersville, and so it is to this day. The said John McCoy was delegate to the legislature sitting at Richmond, Va., for five terms from the founding of his county of Tyler in 1815 until 1822. Sarah (Wells) McCoy was one of the founders and ever a leading supporter of the Presbyterian Church in Sistersville, organized in 1842, (and then a part of Washington, Pa., Presbytery,) until her death in 1888, at the age of 94 years.
In the fall of 1872 Joseph L. Thistle came from Sistersville, W. Va., where be was born in 1855, to Washington and entered the preparatory department of Washington-Jefferson College, and pursued the regular classical course, intending to be a physician, until impaired health compelled him to leave college shortly before the graduation of his Class of '78. Less than two years after his arrival here he united with the First Presbyterian Church, of which he was ordained a deacon soon after becoming a resident of the town some years later. While in college be was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and of the Philo and Union Literary Society. After leaving college he was employed in surveying and engineering work, and in his father's store, until he entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, September, 1884, after nearly two years of preparatory study, and received a diploma from this famous institution in 1886, together with a gold medal, awarded in competition, for "the best thesis on a subject relating to obstetrics."
In 1879 he married Sarah Olivia Bell, daughter of John B. Bell, who occupied the offices of treasurer and prothonotary [a chief clerk of any of various courts of law] of this county, and was collector of internal revenue at the time of his death. To Dr. Thistle and wife were born six children, four of whom are living: Archibald, who conducts a jewelry business at No. 36 North Main street, and Helen S., Catherine R. and Mildred B., who reside with their father at No, 41 E. Beau street. For some years after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thistle lived at Sistersville. But, immediately after completing some post graduate work, following graduation from medical college he removed his family to Washington, Pa., and has resided here ever since. This was during the height of the oil excitement here and he soon had a good practice which he continued until in the early nineties his father's failing health and added cares on account of oil and gas developments in Tyler County, compelled him to spend about one half of the time away from home for the next ten years. His father died in 1896, leaving a considerable estate. After many years of great suffering from asthma, although relief was sought in many parts of the country, Mrs. Thistle passed to her reward in February 1906. She was most relieved at Mt. Lake Park, Md., and here a comfortable home was established in 1897, where the family ha spent most of the hottest months for the last 12 years.
In 1893 Washington-Jefferson College conferred upon Dr. Thistle the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He is a director in the Washington Trust Company, and in the Washington Electric Light and Power Company besides being a stockholder in several other banks and corporations of this and neighboring cities.
From:
20th Century History Of The City of
Washington and Washington County Pennsylvania
and Representative Citizens
By: Joseph F. McFarland
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
Chicago, Illinois, 1910
Biography of Dr. Joseph L. Thistle
Washington County, PA Biographies
JOSEPH LONG THISTLE, M. D., comes of a notable Scotch Irish ancestry, many of whom were pioneer settlers in the Ohio Valley at the beginning of last century, and all of them were thrifty and early acquired valuable real estate. His paternal grandfather, Sampson Thistle, after marriage near Cumberland, Md., brought his bride, on horseback, to a clearing and cabin which be had previously prepared, about two miles above Fishing Creek on the Virginia side of the Ohio, where they lived to a ripe old age and brought up a family of eleven children. Dr. Thistle at present owns one half of these ancestral lands of nearly 900 acres.
Archibald Thistle, one of these children and father of the object of this sketch, entered his brother's store, as a partner, at the age of 18, and when 28 years old started in a general mercantile business at Sistersville, continuing uninterruptedly until his death at the age of 78. He was the wealthiest and one of the most respected citizens of his county. He was postmaster before, during and after the Civil War period, covering in all 26 years.
John McCoy, the maternal grandfather of Dr. Thistle, married Sarah Wells, one of the 22 children of Charles Wells, whose home was in what is now Brooke County, W. Va. To each of 20 of these children who lived to maturity their father gave a good river bottom farm, most of which he secured by patent from the state; others he bought from prior owners. To his daughters, Sarah (Wells) McCoy and Ruth (Wells) Brikhead, he gave the northern half of a valley, just midway between Wheeling and Parkersburg. In course of time these sisters decided to lay out a town site, one half of which should be upon either side of the line dividing their farms. After much discussion as to a name for the place Sarah suggested the appropriate and unique name of Sistersville, and so it is to this day. The said John McCoy was delegate to the legislature sitting at Richmond, Va., for five terms from the founding of his county of Tyler in 1815 until 1822. Sarah (Wells) McCoy was one of the founders and ever a leading supporter of the Presbyterian Church in Sistersville, organized in 1842, (and then a part of Washington, Pa., Presbytery,) until her death in 1888, at the age of 94 years.
In the fall of 1872 Joseph L. Thistle came from Sistersville, W. Va., where be was born in 1855, to Washington and entered the preparatory department of Washington-Jefferson College, and pursued the regular classical course, intending to be a physician, until impaired health compelled him to leave college shortly before the graduation of his Class of '78. Less than two years after his arrival here he united with the First Presbyterian Church, of which he was ordained a deacon soon after becoming a resident of the town some years later. While in college be was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and of the Philo and Union Literary Society. After leaving college he was employed in surveying and engineering work, and in his father's store, until he entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, September, 1884, after nearly two years of preparatory study, and received a diploma from this famous institution in 1886, together with a gold medal, awarded in competition, for "the best thesis on a subject relating to obstetrics."
In 1879 he married Sarah Olivia Bell, daughter of John B. Bell, who occupied the offices of treasurer and prothonotary [a chief clerk of any of various courts of law] of this county, and was collector of internal revenue at the time of his death. To Dr. Thistle and wife were born six children, four of whom are living: Archibald, who conducts a jewelry business at No. 36 North Main street, and Helen S., Catherine R. and Mildred B., who reside with their father at No, 41 E. Beau street. For some years after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thistle lived at Sistersville. But, immediately after completing some post graduate work, following graduation from medical college he removed his family to Washington, Pa., and has resided here ever since. This was during the height of the oil excitement here and he soon had a good practice which he continued until in the early nineties his father's failing health and added cares on account of oil and gas developments in Tyler County, compelled him to spend about one half of the time away from home for the next ten years. His father died in 1896, leaving a considerable estate. After many years of great suffering from asthma, although relief was sought in many parts of the country, Mrs. Thistle passed to her reward in February 1906. She was most relieved at Mt. Lake Park, Md., and here a comfortable home was established in 1897, where the family ha spent most of the hottest months for the last 12 years.
In 1893 Washington-Jefferson College conferred upon Dr. Thistle the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He is a director in the Washington Trust Company, and in the Washington Electric Light and Power Company besides being a stockholder in several other banks and corporations of this and neighboring cities.
From:
20th Century History Of The City of
Washington and Washington County Pennsylvania
and Representative Citizens
By: Joseph F. McFarland
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
Chicago, Illinois, 1910
Son of Catherine Russell McCoy and Archibald Thistle. Married to Sarah Olive/Olivia Bell on 25 DEC 1879.
Biography of Dr. Joseph L. Thistle
Washington County, PA Biographies
JOSEPH LONG THISTLE, M. D., comes of a notable Scotch Irish ancestry, many of whom were pioneer settlers in the Ohio Valley at the beginning of last century, and all of them were thrifty and early acquired valuable real estate. His paternal grandfather, Sampson Thistle, after marriage near Cumberland, Md., brought his bride, on horseback, to a clearing and cabin which be had previously prepared, about two miles above Fishing Creek on the Virginia side of the Ohio, where they lived to a ripe old age and brought up a family of eleven children. Dr. Thistle at present owns one half of these ancestral lands of nearly 900 acres.
Archibald Thistle, one of these children and father of the object of this sketch, entered his brother's store, as a partner, at the age of 18, and when 28 years old started in a general mercantile business at Sistersville, continuing uninterruptedly until his death at the age of 78. He was the wealthiest and one of the most respected citizens of his county. He was postmaster before, during and after the Civil War period, covering in all 26 years.
John McCoy, the maternal grandfather of Dr. Thistle, married Sarah Wells, one of the 22 children of Charles Wells, whose home was in what is now Brooke County, W. Va. To each of 20 of these children who lived to maturity their father gave a good river bottom farm, most of which he secured by patent from the state; others he bought from prior owners. To his daughters, Sarah (Wells) McCoy and Ruth (Wells) Brikhead, he gave the northern half of a valley, just midway between Wheeling and Parkersburg. In course of time these sisters decided to lay out a town site, one half of which should be upon either side of the line dividing their farms. After much discussion as to a name for the place Sarah suggested the appropriate and unique name of Sistersville, and so it is to this day. The said John McCoy was delegate to the legislature sitting at Richmond, Va., for five terms from the founding of his county of Tyler in 1815 until 1822. Sarah (Wells) McCoy was one of the founders and ever a leading supporter of the Presbyterian Church in Sistersville, organized in 1842, (and then a part of Washington, Pa., Presbytery,) until her death in 1888, at the age of 94 years.
In the fall of 1872 Joseph L. Thistle came from Sistersville, W. Va., where be was born in 1855, to Washington and entered the preparatory department of Washington-Jefferson College, and pursued the regular classical course, intending to be a physician, until impaired health compelled him to leave college shortly before the graduation of his Class of '78. Less than two years after his arrival here he united with the First Presbyterian Church, of which he was ordained a deacon soon after becoming a resident of the town some years later. While in college be was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and of the Philo and Union Literary Society. After leaving college he was employed in surveying and engineering work, and in his father's store, until he entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, September, 1884, after nearly two years of preparatory study, and received a diploma from this famous institution in 1886, together with a gold medal, awarded in competition, for "the best thesis on a subject relating to obstetrics."
In 1879 he married Sarah Olivia Bell, daughter of John B. Bell, who occupied the offices of treasurer and prothonotary [a chief clerk of any of various courts of law] of this county, and was collector of internal revenue at the time of his death. To Dr. Thistle and wife were born six children, four of whom are living: Archibald, who conducts a jewelry business at No. 36 North Main street, and Helen S., Catherine R. and Mildred B., who reside with their father at No, 41 E. Beau street. For some years after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thistle lived at Sistersville. But, immediately after completing some post graduate work, following graduation from medical college he removed his family to Washington, Pa., and has resided here ever since. This was during the height of the oil excitement here and he soon had a good practice which he continued until in the early nineties his father's failing health and added cares on account of oil and gas developments in Tyler County, compelled him to spend about one half of the time away from home for the next ten years. His father died in 1896, leaving a considerable estate. After many years of great suffering from asthma, although relief was sought in many parts of the country, Mrs. Thistle passed to her reward in February 1906. She was most relieved at Mt. Lake Park, Md., and here a comfortable home was established in 1897, where the family ha spent most of the hottest months for the last 12 years.
In 1893 Washington-Jefferson College conferred upon Dr. Thistle the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He is a director in the Washington Trust Company, and in the Washington Electric Light and Power Company besides being a stockholder in several other banks and corporations of this and neighboring cities.
From:
20th Century History Of The City of
Washington and Washington County Pennsylvania
and Representative Citizens
By: Joseph F. McFarland
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
Chicago, Illinois, 1910
Biography of Dr. Joseph L. Thistle
Washington County, PA Biographies
JOSEPH LONG THISTLE, M. D., comes of a notable Scotch Irish ancestry, many of whom were pioneer settlers in the Ohio Valley at the beginning of last century, and all of them were thrifty and early acquired valuable real estate. His paternal grandfather, Sampson Thistle, after marriage near Cumberland, Md., brought his bride, on horseback, to a clearing and cabin which be had previously prepared, about two miles above Fishing Creek on the Virginia side of the Ohio, where they lived to a ripe old age and brought up a family of eleven children. Dr. Thistle at present owns one half of these ancestral lands of nearly 900 acres.
Archibald Thistle, one of these children and father of the object of this sketch, entered his brother's store, as a partner, at the age of 18, and when 28 years old started in a general mercantile business at Sistersville, continuing uninterruptedly until his death at the age of 78. He was the wealthiest and one of the most respected citizens of his county. He was postmaster before, during and after the Civil War period, covering in all 26 years.
John McCoy, the maternal grandfather of Dr. Thistle, married Sarah Wells, one of the 22 children of Charles Wells, whose home was in what is now Brooke County, W. Va. To each of 20 of these children who lived to maturity their father gave a good river bottom farm, most of which he secured by patent from the state; others he bought from prior owners. To his daughters, Sarah (Wells) McCoy and Ruth (Wells) Brikhead, he gave the northern half of a valley, just midway between Wheeling and Parkersburg. In course of time these sisters decided to lay out a town site, one half of which should be upon either side of the line dividing their farms. After much discussion as to a name for the place Sarah suggested the appropriate and unique name of Sistersville, and so it is to this day. The said John McCoy was delegate to the legislature sitting at Richmond, Va., for five terms from the founding of his county of Tyler in 1815 until 1822. Sarah (Wells) McCoy was one of the founders and ever a leading supporter of the Presbyterian Church in Sistersville, organized in 1842, (and then a part of Washington, Pa., Presbytery,) until her death in 1888, at the age of 94 years.
In the fall of 1872 Joseph L. Thistle came from Sistersville, W. Va., where be was born in 1855, to Washington and entered the preparatory department of Washington-Jefferson College, and pursued the regular classical course, intending to be a physician, until impaired health compelled him to leave college shortly before the graduation of his Class of '78. Less than two years after his arrival here he united with the First Presbyterian Church, of which he was ordained a deacon soon after becoming a resident of the town some years later. While in college be was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and of the Philo and Union Literary Society. After leaving college he was employed in surveying and engineering work, and in his father's store, until he entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, September, 1884, after nearly two years of preparatory study, and received a diploma from this famous institution in 1886, together with a gold medal, awarded in competition, for "the best thesis on a subject relating to obstetrics."
In 1879 he married Sarah Olivia Bell, daughter of John B. Bell, who occupied the offices of treasurer and prothonotary [a chief clerk of any of various courts of law] of this county, and was collector of internal revenue at the time of his death. To Dr. Thistle and wife were born six children, four of whom are living: Archibald, who conducts a jewelry business at No. 36 North Main street, and Helen S., Catherine R. and Mildred B., who reside with their father at No, 41 E. Beau street. For some years after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thistle lived at Sistersville. But, immediately after completing some post graduate work, following graduation from medical college he removed his family to Washington, Pa., and has resided here ever since. This was during the height of the oil excitement here and he soon had a good practice which he continued until in the early nineties his father's failing health and added cares on account of oil and gas developments in Tyler County, compelled him to spend about one half of the time away from home for the next ten years. His father died in 1896, leaving a considerable estate. After many years of great suffering from asthma, although relief was sought in many parts of the country, Mrs. Thistle passed to her reward in February 1906. She was most relieved at Mt. Lake Park, Md., and here a comfortable home was established in 1897, where the family ha spent most of the hottest months for the last 12 years.
In 1893 Washington-Jefferson College conferred upon Dr. Thistle the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He is a director in the Washington Trust Company, and in the Washington Electric Light and Power Company besides being a stockholder in several other banks and corporations of this and neighboring cities.
From:
20th Century History Of The City of
Washington and Washington County Pennsylvania
and Representative Citizens
By: Joseph F. McFarland
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
Chicago, Illinois, 1910
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