| Mary Elizabeth Smith, like three of her siblings, became a homeopathic
physician. Prior to that she taught school. One of her brothers, Dr. Augustus
Smith, practiced medicine in Pittsburg and he and others sent their
tuberculosis patients to the Smith Family Sanitarium in Sullivan Township
for the cure. Patients came into Columbia Cross Roads on the trains and
traveled the few miles through Austinville to the sanitarium just west
of the Bradford County - Tioga County boundary. To this day the hill is
called Sanitarium Hill. Doc Mary, as she was called locally, ran the sanitarium
until her death in 1926
Wellsboro Gazette, June 17, 1903
The Smith Sanitarium has been removed from Pittsburg and will be reopened
July 1st in Sullivan township on the homestead of the late Northrup Smith.
His children were nearly all physicians and such a use of his home seems
highly fitting. |
