Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
ARD,
ALOA FRANCIS, M. D., of Jamestown, N. Y., was born in Amboy, Oswego
county, N. Y., on June 30th, 1834. His father, Aloa Ward, was a laboring
man ; his grandfather, it is supposed, enlisted in the army, as he
left home during the war of 1812, and was never afterward heard from. He
is of English and Scotch descent. His mother died when he was about
fourteen, and shortly afterward he went to live with an uncle in
Portland, Chatauqua county, N. Y., where he remained until he reached
his majority. His education was principally obtained at a common school,
though he attended two or three terms at a select school in Portland,
and also two half terms at Fredonia Academy. He began to study medicine
about January 1st, 1856, with Dr. L. M. Henyon, of Westfield, who
removed to Buffalo the following June ; then he continued his
studies with Dr. George A. Hall, of Westfield. In August of that year he
went, in company with Dr. A. E. Keyes, to Pittsfield, Mass., and
attended his first course of lectures at the Berkshire Medical College.
From that time until the winter of 1859-60 he pursued his studies as
best he could, teaching school a part of the time, and occasionally
working by the day or month to obtain means to pay his expenses. He
attended his second course of lectures at the Cleveland Homœopathic
College in the winter of 1859-’60, and graduated at the close of the
term. He commenced to practice at Girard, Erie county, Pa., about the
middle of May, 1860, but not meeting with a remunerative business, he
removed to Jamestown, N. Y., on April 1st, 1861, where he still resides,
and where he has worked himself into a successful practice.He has been a
Republican ever since the formation of that party, but takes no active
part in politics.He has been married
twice : first to Helen M. Farnham, on January 26th, 1863 ; she
died on January 16th, 1869 ; and on February 1st, 1870, he was
united to Jane S. Hastings.Dr. Ward is almost
entirely a self-made man. He is a thoroughly informed physician, very
enthusiastic in his profession, and devoted to the principles of homœopathy.
In the sick-room his gentle and sympathetic manners made him a universal
favorite, while his social qualities have won him numerous friends in
every community where he has dwelt.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave