DR. WILLIAM YOUNG McCOY
Doctor's office upstairs in Corner Drug Store
DR. WILLIAM YOUNG McCOY, second son
of John and Hannah (Beach) McCoy, born at the old McCoy home in Somerset
county, New Jersey, February 24, 1809. His childhood and early life
were spent in his native region, and it was there that he received
the elementary portion of his education, attending the local public
schools for this purpose. While still very young he decided upon the
medical profession as a career in life, and entered the Cincinnati
Medical College at Cincinniti, Ohio. His career at this institution
maintained the reputation that he hid already established as an intelligent
and industrious student, and he was eventually graduated with the
classof 1831, taking the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately
after graduation, Dr. McCoy removed to Smethport, Pennsylvania, where
he was one of the first, if not the very first physician to settle.
Dr. McCoy was not only a successful physician in Smethport, but engaged
in many of the activities of the region, and became the owner of a
sawmill and was interested in several other enterprises here. The
region about Smethport was covered with abundant forests of pine and
hemlock, and drawing upon this supply he manufactured at his sawmill
a great quantity of various types of lunber which he sold not only
in the local market but at Pittsburgh and other distant points where
it was shipped. He also gave a great deal of his time and attention
to the public affairs of McKean county, and became a recognized 1eader
therein while still comparativelya young man. He was a lifelong Democrat,
and was elected on his party's ticket treasurer of the county, in
which capacity he served for one term, and latercounty commissioner,
serving also one term each in both these ffices. He was very popular
both as a man and physician, and there were few figures so well known
as his in that region at that time.
Dr. McCoy was united in marriage, December 13, 1832, with Charlotte,
Augusta Darling, a native of Gill, Massachusetts, born August 8, 1813.
Her death occurred at Smethport, May 22, 1897, while Dr. McCoy died
January 4, 1886. Both were members of St. Luke's Episcopal Church,
of which Dr. McCoy was senior warden for many years. Mrs. McCoy was
a daughter of Dr. George Darling, also a native of Gill, Massachusetts,
having been born there November 22, 1785.