From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 564-565.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


S. F. MARQUIS 


So far as we are able to learn, Dr. Marquis was the first physician 
who located in the town of New Cumberland.  He studied medicine in 
Cross Creek village, Penn.  The Exact date of his coming to Hancock 
county, we have not sicceeded in ascertaining.  He was quite 
successful as a practitioner.  Notwithstanding this, he abandoned the 
field in 1852, joining the great exodus to California, where he died  
a few years later.  He was succeeded in practice in this county by 
Dr. David Baguley.  William Beaumont studied medicine with Dr. George 
McCook, at New lisbon, Ohio, and settled in New Cumberland shortly 
after the town was laid out.  He practiced eclecticism and 
hydropathy, and opened a water-cure establishment, which is said to 
have been for a time quite successful. He also preached in the 
Disciples church. Samuel Grafton, a native of the county, practiced 
medicine here for several years, about the year 1830 and later. He 
subsequently removed to Wellsburg, and afterward practiced in Ohio 
and Kentucky. 


(Linda Fluharty)