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G. H. PRESTON, M. D., Kane, was born in Lake county, Ohio, in 1854. He attended the schools of Madison, completing
his studies at Madison High School; then went in to a drug store at Painesville, same State, where he learned the
business and remained three years, when he began the study of medicine with Drs. Stranahan and Preston, of Warren,
Penn. In 1878 he attended the medical department of the University of the City of New York, and graduated in 1879.
The Doctor began his practice at Dunkirk, N. Y., and same year removed to Kane, where he has since been in the
active practice of his profession. Dr. Preston has been surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, ten years,
has held the same position for the Pittsburgh & Western Railroad, three years, and is medical examiner for
all the insurance companies represented in Kane. He is a member of the Acme Oil Company, the banking house of McDade,
Davis & Co. and the drug firm of J. W. Griffith & Co. The Doctor also has large interests in timber land
and oil property. He is one of the prosperous citizens of Kane, and a leading and influential physician and business
man.
From:
History of the Counties of
McKean, Elk and Forest,
Pennsylvania
With Biographical Selections.
J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers
Chicago, 1890.
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