DR. ADAM S. UBERROTH, father of Dr. Marion W. Uberroth, was a man of strong personality and brilliant attainments, tempered with kindness and gentleness. Indeed, he possessed a magnetism irresistable. As a talker he was fluent and entertaining; his voice was heard on many public occasions, and his words always carried weight. And he possessed the power not only to win but also to hold friends.

He was born in Friedensville, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1850, from whence in his youth he removed to Philadelphia. He was a student at Freeland Seminary, now Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and studied under the late Dr. Levis, celebrated in medical circles. Before he attained his twenty-second year he received the degree of M. D. from Jefferson Medical College, and was tendered the enviable position of assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the college. He felt however, that a broader field of action awaited him, and visions of a lucrative practice in the west beckoned him on. A few months after his graduation he settled at Sycamore, Wyandotte county, Ohio, but before a year had passed he moved to New Riegel, Seneca county, where, in this village, the surrounding country and adjacent towns, he established a large and successful practice. And here, by the remorseless hand of accident, he was cut down in the prime of manhood, before reaching the zenith of his fame. He died February 15,1883. He was a member of the Seneca county, Northwestern Ohio and Ohio State Medical Societies, and the American Medical Association.

On October 15, 1870, he married Miss Mallie Wollaston, who bore him two children, a son and daughter, Marion W., and Lalla, the latter the wife of William H. Kildow, of Tiffin, Ohio. Mrs. Uberroth subsequently became the wife of Dr. Focht, and is still living.

Mrs. Mallie Wollaston Focht was born at Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, on the old Governor Bradford homestead, April 6, 1850, a daughter of Thomas P. and Mary (Armstrong) Wollaston. At the age of three years she was taken by her parents to Maryland, where, in the eastern part of the state, on the eastern shore, the family home was established, and where she grew to womanhood and received her education. Her father, Thomas Pennock Wollaston, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and traced his lineage back through an unbroken line to Christopher Pennock of Cornwall, England, and Mary Collet, daughter of George Collet of Clonmell, Ireland, who were united in marriage prior to the year 1675.


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History of Seneca County, Ohio
By A. J. Baughman