Dr. Charles Henry DeWan

Way back when I first started researching my grandfather's Irish ancestry, I asked my grandmother what she knew about his family.  One of the things she told me was that her mother-in-law, Kathryn DeWan Fagan, had a brother who was a pathologist.  This was Dr. Charles Henry DeWan, as my research would uncover.  

The youngest DeWan sibling, Charles was born 18 August 1892 in Herrick, Pennsylvania.  Their father, Patrick, had come from Ireland sometime before 1862 and their mother, Anna McGovern, had family roots in Counties Armagh and Longford.  Charles graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where his brother-in-law Dr. Peter Edward Fagan had also earned his MD, and returned home to Bradford County as an intern in 1917 to join the staff of the Robert Packer Hospital.  During a 45 year medical career, Dr. DeWan was a deputy coroner for Bradford County and director of the pathology department at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania.  Under his supervision the pathology lab grew from one room to an entire hospital floor, and his death in 1963 garnered a front page headline in the local paper (plus an additional page).  The following photograph is of Dr. DeWan.

Dr. Charles Henry DeWan
Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine

It is my belief that the image above, being created prior to 1977, is likely in the public domain as classified for works created between 1923 and 1977 as laid out here and additionally that fair use applies, as I have provided a commentary on it by adding details on the life of its subject which were not published with the image.