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The following is about my grandfather Willard G. Lent, M.D. He
died in the flu epidemic of 1918, caught while treating his patients for
the flu - - He is buried in Tioga County Cemetery, Wellsboro.
Thanks,
Elinor Asdell
Vancouver, WA
Dr. Lent received his early education in the public schools, the
high school in Wellsboro, PA and later the Normal School in Mansfield,
PA. He then studied for one year at Cornell University at Ithaca,
NY and then became the principal of the school at Morris Run in which position
he held for three years at the end of which he entered Jefferson Medical
College from which he graduated in 1891. He commenced his practice
as physician for the Berwind-White Coal Company in Jefferson County remaining
with them for four years and in 1895 settled in Wellsboro where he practiced
his profession during the next four years and then moved to Scranton, PA,
remaining there for four years. He then took up post-graduate courses
in Philadelphia and in New York City and in 1904 returned to Wellsboro
and established and erected the "Forest Lawn Sanitarium" of which
under his direction and management became most favorable and widely known
throughout the country. He was a Republican in politics, and a Methodist
in religion. He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, The
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, The Knights of Maccabees and the Modern
Woodmen of America.
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