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Transcribed from "History of North Washington, an illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.

     THOMAS W. MUSGROVE, M. D., an eminently successful and highly esteemed physician and surgeon of Mission, Chelan county, was born in New Brunswick, Canada, November 4, 1841.  His father, Abraham G. Musgrove, was a Canadian farmer, his father an Englishman, his mother a native of Germany.  He died in the seventy-seventh year of his age, in 1890.  The mother of our subject, Mary (Balmain) Musgrove, of Canadian-Scotch ancestry, still lives in Canada , at the age of eighty-seven years.
     Thomas W. Musgrove, until 1889, made his home in Canada, and received an excellent classical and professional education.  He was graduated from the high and normal schools, taught school seven years, and then matriculated in the medical department of the Ann Arbor, Michigan, University, probably the best medical preparatory department in the United States.  His medical studies were completed at Harvard College, from which he was graduated with honors in 1871.  Returning to Canada he continued his practice for eight years at Salisbury and Wickham, New Brunswick, going thence to New York, where he took a post-graduate course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City.  He located at St. John's, New Brunswick, but owing to ill health--asthma--he came to the Puget Sound country, where he has remained ever since.  He practiced twelve years in Tacoma, Puyallup and Fairhaven.  He is a member of the Pierce County, Washington, Medical Society, was for two years health officer of Puyallup, and was secretary of the New Brunswick Medical Society four years.  He was, also, assistant surgeon of the New Brunswick militia one year, and director of the Union Baptist Seminary, New Brunswick, located at St. Martins.  He has three brothers, George N., A. Coburn and L. Carlton, and three sisters, Eleanor A. Thorn, Maggie Killam and Henrietta.
     Mr. Musgrove has been married three times, in 1865 to Miss Mary J. Redstone, who died in February, 1878; in 1879 to Miss Kate A. Taylor, who died in 1884, and in 1886 to Miss Matilda S. Olive, now with him.  He is the father of seven daughters, Ettie E. Short, Estella A. Bart, Adrianna McNaughton, Nellie J., single, M. Isabel, Hilda M. and Helen S.  Mr. Musgrove was married to Miss Olive at St. John, New Brunswick, January 3, 1886.  She is a daughter of Isaac J. Olive, who died September 23, 1900.  Her mother, Harriet Olive, is still living at the age of eighty-seven years.  She has two brothers, Herbert J., mentioned elsewhere, and George L., a "deep sea" sailor, and one sister, Anna T., lives with her.