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From: "Richard M. Reese" <>
Subject: [PA-LAC] Re: West Side Hospital
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 20:23:56 -0400


Your comments have prompted me to do a little research on the subject.
I was previously aware of the merger which created CMC, although it was not
in the forefront of my mind. My first encounter with the organization
refered to, was in my search for my great-great-grand mother, Esther Evans
Rees Owens, who was survived by a brother, Dr. Daniel W. Evans, of
Cambridge, MA. Since my gggm spent all of her adult life in Scranton after
the families arrival in Taylorville in late 1869, it was logical to assume
that Daniel spent a considerable amount of time in this area as well. Going
to the city directory, I soon found, and traced Dr. Daniel W. (D. Webster)
Evans from about 1899 through 1935 (the limit of my resources here). Upon
my next visit to Scranton, an inquiry was made at the Lackawanna Historical
Society, which turned up information about this West Side Hospital, but
eliminated the doctor as an uncle [for the record, there was only two months
difference in birth between my Daniel W. Evans, PhD, and this Daniel W.
Evans, MD].
"Not long after his arrival in Scranton, Dr. Evans opened an institution
known as the Scranton Sanatarium and Medical Baths, its present name being
the Dr. D. W. Evan's Hospital. The hospital has a capacity of fifteen
patients"...was founded in 1909... and is located at 157 South Main Ave. -
History of the City of Scranton, pgs 371 (bio) and 321 - LHC collection.


Following the trail through the city directories I thought I found the name
evolving to
the West Side Hospital, but I WAS WRONG! Rechecking the city directory
today for 1919 (and I made a copy so I don't make this mistake again), I
found that the West Side Hospital existed then and is therefore not the same
as Dr. Evan's establishment.

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-----Original Message-----
From: <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: [PA-LAC] Re: Richard JAMES III


>
>
>The West Side Hospital may have once been located on South Main Avenue at
one
>time but it didn't go out of business in the 1930s. It was located on
>Jackson Street and was still in existence as pretty much of a full service
>hospital (including child delivery and a fine nursery) until sometime
around
>the 1960s I believe when it merged with the Hahnemann Hospital. They
became
>at that time Community Medical Center East and Community Medical Center
West.
> After a few years the West branch (the old West Side Hospital) was closed
>and CMC East simply became Community Medical Center (CMC). Scranton State
>General Hospital on Mulberry Street was demolished to put up the new State
>Northeast Veteran's Center between 1988 and 1991 when the ground was broken
>for the Vet's Center. The Mercy Hospital is also on Jefferson Avenue in
>Scranton and many children were born there. Rich is right though when he
>says that chances are that someone born in 1919 was born at home. People
>didn't usually go to the hospital for childbirth then.
>
>In a message dated 9/5/2001 10:17:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
>
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>> From: "Richard M. Reese" <>
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>> In all likelyhood he would have been born at home. However, the West
>> Side hospital on S. Main Avenue is a possibility. More of a clinic,
having
>> only a few beds, West Side went out of business in the 1930's just prior
to
>> the death of its' founder Dr. Daniel W. Evans.
>> The other hospitals were Scranton State General located on Mulberry
>> Street, demolished in the early 1970's I believe; Hahnemann, now CMC, and
>> Moses-Taylor - both are in the Hill section just east of center city.
>> Although the county stopped recording of births Dec. 31, 1905, when
the
>> Commonwealth (Bureau of Vital Statistics) took over, the Board of Health
of
>> the City of Scranton did maintain some record keeping functions. Perhaps
>> either of them would be a better direction to go.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Long <>
>> To: <>
>> Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:12 PM
>> Subject: [PA-LAC] Richard JAMES III
>>
>>
>> >I need some advise or assistance. Richard JAMES 3rd was born Feb 13,
1919
>> in Scranton PA. I am trying to get information on his parents. What
>> hospitals were available in 1919 that I might find a birth record?
>> >
>> >Also, he served in WW2. Would there be a site that might help me with
>> service records and would they have parents information?
>> >
>> >Thanks for any leads. Jim
>>
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