Obituary of Dr. J. C. Boyle

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Butler Eagle Date/Page: 28 Mar 1929 pg. 1
"Butler Physician Dies in His Home"
"Dr. J. C. Boyle, Resident of Butler County, Lived in Butler 32 Years. Dr. J. C. Boyle, aged 64. physician and surgeon and a specialist in treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat diseases, at 121 East Cunningham street, died at the family home 615 North Main street, at 5:30 o'clock this morning after a short illness. Dr. Boyle had been in his usual health until two days ago when he suffered a stroke of paralysis, which paralyzed his left side. He was removed to his home and gradually grew weaker until his death.
Dr. Boyle had been a life long resident of Butler County. He was born at New Hope, Butler County, November 14, 1864, and was the son of the late Thomas and Jane Stoughton Boyle.
He was reared In Butler County and attended the public schools and graduated from the Normal school at Edinboro in the class of 1889. Previous to his graduation he had taught school in Butler, Warren and Lawrence counties. In 1892 he graduated from the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, now the medical department of the University of Pittsburgh. He took his first special course in the Philadelphia Polyclinic College for graduate physicians in 1902 and 1903. He continued his studies in 1905, taking a special course on the diseases of the eye at the Royal London Ophthalmic hospital and Westminister Ophthalmic hospital at London, England, and also a course on ear, nose and throat diseases at the Central London Ear and Throat hospital. In the early part of his medical career conducted an office and practiced medicine at Marienville, Forest County, and Taylorstown, Washington County, before locating in Butler. He came to this city in 1897 and established a business at 121 East Cunningham Street, where he conducted a private hospital for eye, ear, nose and throat diseases.
He was united in marriage to Miss Kathleen McNair in 1894 to which union one son, James Clyde Boyle, Jr., was born. In 1916 he was married to Miss Pearl Winters. He was a member of the Butler…(Continued on page fifteen)
...(Continued from page one) County Medical Society and the Pennsylvania Medical Society, the F. and A. M. lodge number 372, the Butler Royal Arch. The Lorraine Commandery, Syria Shrine, and the New Castle consistory. He was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Butler.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Pearl Winters Boyle; two sons, James C., Jr., of the University of Pittsburgh dental college, and John at home, and two daughters, Jane and (living person/name withheld), both at home.
Funeral services will be held from the family home, 615 North Main Street, at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon with Rev. George C. Miller, pastor of the second Presbyterian church, assisted by Rev. William Oliver Johnston, pastor of St. Peters Episcopal church officiating. Interment will be in the North cemetery.