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Dr. CYRUS R. STUCKSLAGER, cashier People’s bank, McKeesport, was born in Fayette county, Pa., February 27, 1829, a son of Charles and Susan (Robinson) Stuckslager, natives of Lancaster county, Pa., and pioneers of Fayette county. He was reared on a farm in his native county, and his early education was acquired in the common schools. In 1852 he graduated with honors of the Greek salutatory from Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.; the same year went south, and taught school in Southern and Middle Tennessee, and in the meantime studied medicine, and attended his first course of lectures at the University of Nashville in 1854. He took a second course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., and graduated from that institution in 1856. That year he began the practice of his profession in Fayette City, Pa., and in 1857 married Martha C., daughter of Jacob and Delilah (Corson) Strawn, of Pennsylvania, and removed to Kansas, where he was in active practice until 1862. He then entered the Union army as surgeon, serving until the close of the war, and during that time was captured and held a prisoner two months. When the struggle was ended he located in Monongahela City, Pa., where he practiced his profession seven years. In 1872 he came to McKeesport, and for the past sixteen years his time has been given to financial pursuits, in his position as the efficient cashier of the People’s bank. The doctor had three children: Lulu, who died January 16, 1889 (Mrs. E. S. Thomas), Harry and Florence. Mrs. Martha C. Stuckslager died November 1, 1885, and the doctor married, November 15, 1888, Miss Ella Huffman, schoolteacher of McKeesport. He is an active member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and for fifteen years has been the superintendent of the Sabbath-school, of eight hundred scholars. He is an enterprising and public-spirited citizen; politically a republican.