Dr. Wills DeHass was the son of Charles Phillip and Palmyra (Fields) DeHass. He was the husband of Amanda Margaret (Hoblitzell) DeHass. They were married May 4, 1837. Amanda died December 26, 1896. He was a physician, scientist, Civil War historian and anthropologist. He served during the Civil War.
Who's Who In Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary Of Contemporaries, 1908
DeHass, Wills
Physician and scientist; born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1817; son of Charles DeHass and Myra (Fields) DeHass. He received his education in Washington College (now Washington-Jefferson College), Western University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He married at Elizabethtown, Virginia, May 4, 1837, Amanda Melvina Hoblitzell, and they have four children: Marguerite Wills, Mary Amanda, Lavina Felicia and Myra Columbia. He engaged in the practice of medicine; was president of the Allegheny Academy; was United States Consul to Yucatan; special examiner in the Pension Office and connected with the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institute. He was lieutenant colonel of the United States Volunteers, Civil War, commanding the 77th Ohio Infantry, attached to General Sherman's division, Army of the Tennessee, in the Battle of Shiloh. He was active in restoring Virginia to the Union and aided in the formation of West Virginia. Dr. DeHass has been especially interested in local history, archaelogy and made extensive explorations in Ohio Valley Mounds. He is the author of History Of Indian Wars and Early Settlement Of West Virginia, The Mound Builders And Their Monuments and also Reminiscences. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Anthropological Society and general contributor to periodicals on historical and scientific subjects. Dr. De Hass is also a member of the Columbia, New York, Maryland, Virginia and Wisconsin Historical Societies. Address: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Obituary
The Pittsburgh Gazette
DEHASS.--Dr. Wills DeHass, a commissioned officer in the Civil War and an author, died at the residence of his granddaughter Mrs. Clarence Brush, 5536 Kentucky Avenue, yesterday morning. A week ago he was stricken with pneumonia and owing to his advanced age never rallied from the disease. Dr. DeHass was born in Wahington, Pennsylvania July 4, 1837. He was the son of General Charles DeHass and Myra Wills, who were among the oldest settlers in Washington County, his father being a Revolutionary soldier. After receiving his preliminary education in the private schools, he entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he was graduated with high honors. After leaving college, he went to Wellsburg, Ohio where he took up the practice of medicine, and later went to Missouri. He was married to Miss Amanda Hoblitzell in 1836 at Moundsville, West Virginia. She died in 1896 at the age of 83 years. On the breaking out of the Civil War, Dr. DeHass helped to organize the Seventy-seventh Ohio United States volunteer infantry of which he was made lieutenant colonel, and engaged in all the battles of this regiment. After the Battle of Shiloh, he was invalided and sent to one of the Northern hospitals and later honorably discharged from service. After the war he turned his attention to literature and wrote a history of West Virginia, which is now one of the textbooks used in the schools of that state. He became interested in the Indian Mounds in Ohio, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio, and many of the relics found by him are now in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Shortly before his death he had completed a monograph of his life to which the title on the back of his carefully prepared manuscript, bear the legend, 'A Long Life". It had been his intention to have published this monograph had he lived.
Who's Who In Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary Of Contemporaries, 1908
DeHass, Wills
Physician and scientist; born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1817; son of Charles DeHass and Myra (Fields) DeHass. He received his education in Washington College (now Washington-Jefferson College), Western University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He married at Elizabethtown, Virginia, May 4, 1837, Amanda Melvina Hoblitzell, and they have four children: Marguerite Wills, Mary Amanda, Lavina Felicia and Myra Columbia. He engaged in the practice of medicine; was president of the Allegheny Academy; was United States Consul to Yucatan; special examiner in the Pension Office and connected with the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institute. He was lieutenant colonel of the United States Volunteers, Civil War, commanding the 77th Ohio Infantry, attached to General Sherman's division, Army of the Tennessee, in the Battle of Shiloh. He was active in restoring Virginia to the Union and aided in the formation of West Virginia. Dr. DeHass has been especially interested in local history, archaelogy and made extensive explorations in Ohio Valley Mounds. He is the author of History Of Indian Wars and Early Settlement Of West Virginia, The Mound Builders And Their Monuments and also Reminiscences. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Anthropological Society and general contributor to periodicals on historical and scientific subjects. Dr. De Hass is also a member of the Columbia, New York, Maryland, Virginia and Wisconsin Historical Societies. Address: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Obituary
The Pittsburgh Gazette
DEHASS.--Dr. Wills DeHass, a commissioned officer in the Civil War and an author, died at the residence of his granddaughter Mrs. Clarence Brush, 5536 Kentucky Avenue, yesterday morning. A week ago he was stricken with pneumonia and owing to his advanced age never rallied from the disease. Dr. DeHass was born in Wahington, Pennsylvania July 4, 1837. He was the son of General Charles DeHass and Myra Wills, who were among the oldest settlers in Washington County, his father being a Revolutionary soldier. After receiving his preliminary education in the private schools, he entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he was graduated with high honors. After leaving college, he went to Wellsburg, Ohio where he took up the practice of medicine, and later went to Missouri. He was married to Miss Amanda Hoblitzell in 1836 at Moundsville, West Virginia. She died in 1896 at the age of 83 years. On the breaking out of the Civil War, Dr. DeHass helped to organize the Seventy-seventh Ohio United States volunteer infantry of which he was made lieutenant colonel, and engaged in all the battles of this regiment. After the Battle of Shiloh, he was invalided and sent to one of the Northern hospitals and later honorably discharged from service. After the war he turned his attention to literature and wrote a history of West Virginia, which is now one of the textbooks used in the schools of that state. He became interested in the Indian Mounds in Ohio, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio, and many of the relics found by him are now in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Shortly before his death he had completed a monograph of his life to which the title on the back of his carefully prepared manuscript, bear the legend, 'A Long Life". It had been his intention to have published this monograph had he lived.
Dr. Wills DeHass was the son of Charles Phillip and Palmyra (Fields) DeHass. He was the husband of Amanda Margaret (Hoblitzell) DeHass. They were married May 4, 1837. Amanda died December 26, 1896. He was a physician, scientist, Civil War historian and anthropologist. He served during the Civil War.
Who's Who In Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary Of Contemporaries, 1908
DeHass, Wills
Physician and scientist; born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1817; son of Charles DeHass and Myra (Fields) DeHass. He received his education in Washington College (now Washington-Jefferson College), Western University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He married at Elizabethtown, Virginia, May 4, 1837, Amanda Melvina Hoblitzell, and they have four children: Marguerite Wills, Mary Amanda, Lavina Felicia and Myra Columbia. He engaged in the practice of medicine; was president of the Allegheny Academy; was United States Consul to Yucatan; special examiner in the Pension Office and connected with the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institute. He was lieutenant colonel of the United States Volunteers, Civil War, commanding the 77th Ohio Infantry, attached to General Sherman's division, Army of the Tennessee, in the Battle of Shiloh. He was active in restoring Virginia to the Union and aided in the formation of West Virginia. Dr. DeHass has been especially interested in local history, archaelogy and made extensive explorations in Ohio Valley Mounds. He is the author of History Of Indian Wars and Early Settlement Of West Virginia, The Mound Builders And Their Monuments and also Reminiscences. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Anthropological Society and general contributor to periodicals on historical and scientific subjects. Dr. De Hass is also a member of the Columbia, New York, Maryland, Virginia and Wisconsin Historical Societies. Address: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Obituary
The Pittsburgh Gazette
DEHASS.--Dr. Wills DeHass, a commissioned officer in the Civil War and an author, died at the residence of his granddaughter Mrs. Clarence Brush, 5536 Kentucky Avenue, yesterday morning. A week ago he was stricken with pneumonia and owing to his advanced age never rallied from the disease. Dr. DeHass was born in Wahington, Pennsylvania July 4, 1837. He was the son of General Charles DeHass and Myra Wills, who were among the oldest settlers in Washington County, his father being a Revolutionary soldier. After receiving his preliminary education in the private schools, he entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he was graduated with high honors. After leaving college, he went to Wellsburg, Ohio where he took up the practice of medicine, and later went to Missouri. He was married to Miss Amanda Hoblitzell in 1836 at Moundsville, West Virginia. She died in 1896 at the age of 83 years. On the breaking out of the Civil War, Dr. DeHass helped to organize the Seventy-seventh Ohio United States volunteer infantry of which he was made lieutenant colonel, and engaged in all the battles of this regiment. After the Battle of Shiloh, he was invalided and sent to one of the Northern hospitals and later honorably discharged from service. After the war he turned his attention to literature and wrote a history of West Virginia, which is now one of the textbooks used in the schools of that state. He became interested in the Indian Mounds in Ohio, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio, and many of the relics found by him are now in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Shortly before his death he had completed a monograph of his life to which the title on the back of his carefully prepared manuscript, bear the legend, 'A Long Life". It had been his intention to have published this monograph had he lived.
Who's Who In Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary Of Contemporaries, 1908
DeHass, Wills
Physician and scientist; born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1817; son of Charles DeHass and Myra (Fields) DeHass. He received his education in Washington College (now Washington-Jefferson College), Western University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He married at Elizabethtown, Virginia, May 4, 1837, Amanda Melvina Hoblitzell, and they have four children: Marguerite Wills, Mary Amanda, Lavina Felicia and Myra Columbia. He engaged in the practice of medicine; was president of the Allegheny Academy; was United States Consul to Yucatan; special examiner in the Pension Office and connected with the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institute. He was lieutenant colonel of the United States Volunteers, Civil War, commanding the 77th Ohio Infantry, attached to General Sherman's division, Army of the Tennessee, in the Battle of Shiloh. He was active in restoring Virginia to the Union and aided in the formation of West Virginia. Dr. DeHass has been especially interested in local history, archaelogy and made extensive explorations in Ohio Valley Mounds. He is the author of History Of Indian Wars and Early Settlement Of West Virginia, The Mound Builders And Their Monuments and also Reminiscences. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Anthropological Society and general contributor to periodicals on historical and scientific subjects. Dr. De Hass is also a member of the Columbia, New York, Maryland, Virginia and Wisconsin Historical Societies. Address: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Obituary
The Pittsburgh Gazette
DEHASS.--Dr. Wills DeHass, a commissioned officer in the Civil War and an author, died at the residence of his granddaughter Mrs. Clarence Brush, 5536 Kentucky Avenue, yesterday morning. A week ago he was stricken with pneumonia and owing to his advanced age never rallied from the disease. Dr. DeHass was born in Wahington, Pennsylvania July 4, 1837. He was the son of General Charles DeHass and Myra Wills, who were among the oldest settlers in Washington County, his father being a Revolutionary soldier. After receiving his preliminary education in the private schools, he entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he was graduated with high honors. After leaving college, he went to Wellsburg, Ohio where he took up the practice of medicine, and later went to Missouri. He was married to Miss Amanda Hoblitzell in 1836 at Moundsville, West Virginia. She died in 1896 at the age of 83 years. On the breaking out of the Civil War, Dr. DeHass helped to organize the Seventy-seventh Ohio United States volunteer infantry of which he was made lieutenant colonel, and engaged in all the battles of this regiment. After the Battle of Shiloh, he was invalided and sent to one of the Northern hospitals and later honorably discharged from service. After the war he turned his attention to literature and wrote a history of West Virginia, which is now one of the textbooks used in the schools of that state. He became interested in the Indian Mounds in Ohio, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio, and many of the relics found by him are now in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Shortly before his death he had completed a monograph of his life to which the title on the back of his carefully prepared manuscript, bear the legend, 'A Long Life". It had been his intention to have published this monograph had he lived.
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