Biography

03/07/1862 - 06/22/1938

McADOO, Dr. Elmer Ellsworth, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, March 7, 1862 near West Lebanon, Indiana County, Pa.; graduated, Elder’s Ridge Academy; attended, Eastman Business College; graduated, Lafayette College, 1884; M.D., Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College), 1891; post-graduate study, Pennsylvania School of Anatomy and Surgery and New York University; employed, Pennsylvania Railroad Company; teacher; physician; presidential appointee, United States Surgeon Examiner (1897-1901); elected, delegate, Republican State Convention (1903); president, board of education, Ligonier; president, School Directors’ Association of Westmoreland County; president, Westmoreland County Medical Association; member of the board of censors, Medico-Chirurgical College (now University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1906; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1908); died, June 22, 1938 in Ligonier, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oakland Cemetery and Mausoleum, Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.