Mackres, H. O.

H.O. MACKRES, physician and surgeon, office Center street, Corry, was born in Calais, Vt., December 16, 1824, son of Joshua and Esther Cummings Mackres, both natives of New Hampshire. The former was a farmer of Scotch descent, and the latter of Irish lineage. Our subject was reared on a farm, and received his education in the common and select schools of New York State. His medical education was obtained in Randolph, N.Y., and Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended a course of lectures and graduated in 1849. He also received a diploma in 1867 from the Buffalo Medical College. He commenced to practice his profession in the State of New York in 1849, where he continued until 1867, when he came to Corry, opened an office in partnership with Dr. B. E. Phelps, with whom he continued a year and a half. He then moved his office to Center street (in 1872) with Dr. Bonsteel, which partnership lasted until 1882. He took a practitioner’s course in Cleveland and in the Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1881 and 1882. In the latter year he began to practice alone, and has one of the finest offices in the State of Pennsylvania, and is a successful physician. He was united in marriage in 1850 with Artemitia, daughter of Jabes Johnson, an early settler of Warren County, Penn. To this union have been born Estella, wife of F. F. Root, a merchant in Kinsman, Ohio; Mary E., wife of William E. Lewis, a resident of Corry; James H., locomotive engineer on the Baltimore, New York & Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Mackres, while in New York, was Postmaster for some years. Mrs. Mackres is a member of the Universalist Church. Our subject is a member of the Masonic Order, No. 365, Corry Lodge; also a member of the United Workmen, and has been an influential member of the I.O.O.F. since 1847; also member of the Encampment. In politics, he is a Democrat.