William N. Luckey (also spelled "Lucky") was born Sep 1784 in Harford Co., Maryland to Rev. George and Elizabeth (Buchanan) Luckey. He was "received into" the Medical and Surgical Faculty of the University of Maryland in 1811. He also attended the 1816-1817 session of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He subsequently moved to Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in 1819 emigrated to Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, with his wife Catharine E. Wolfley (1793-1868), daughter of John C and Elizabeth (Haverling or Heintzelman) Wolfley and her younger brother Lewis. He served as preceptor to several prominent physicians including John Davidson Godman (1794-1830) whom he taught in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and Naval Surgeon Lewis A. Wolfley, his brother-in-law, whom he taught in Circleville, Ohio. He was a contributor to the medical literature and was engaged in the active practice of medicine until his death. His "Remarks on some uncommonly violent cases of Colica Pictonum" appeared in the American Medical Recorder in October 1813, and " A Case of Fungus Haematoides" appeared in the Western Quarterly Reporter of Cincinnati in 1822. He was also mentioned in an article published by another Circleville physician in the Transylvania Journal of Medicine in 1830.
William N. Luckey (also spelled "Lucky") was born Sep 1784 in Harford Co., Maryland to Rev. George and Elizabeth (Buchanan) Luckey. He was "received into" the Medical and Surgical Faculty of the University of Maryland in 1811. He also attended the 1816-1817 session of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He subsequently moved to Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in 1819 emigrated to Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, with his wife Catharine E. Wolfley (1793-1868), daughter of John C and Elizabeth (Haverling or Heintzelman) Wolfley and her younger brother Lewis. He served as preceptor to several prominent physicians including John Davidson Godman (1794-1830) whom he taught in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and Naval Surgeon Lewis A. Wolfley, his brother-in-law, whom he taught in Circleville, Ohio. He was a contributor to the medical literature and was engaged in the active practice of medicine until his death. His "Remarks on some uncommonly violent cases of Colica Pictonum" appeared in the American Medical Recorder in October 1813, and " A Case of Fungus Haematoides" appeared in the Western Quarterly Reporter of Cincinnati in 1822. He was also mentioned in an article published by another Circleville physician in the Transylvania Journal of Medicine in 1830.
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