Within the pages of this work will be found individual mention of a goodly percentage of those who hold representative position in professional life in Jefferson county, and such consideration is justly given to Dr. John Curtis Sayers, whose standing as a citizen and as a skilled and successful physician and surgeon marks him as one of the influential members of the medical profession in this part of the Keystone State. He maintains his residence and professional headquarters in the progressive borough of Reynoldsville, and controls a substantial general practice.

Dr. Sayers was born in Redbank township, Clarion Co., Pa., June 8, 1872, and is a son of John E. and Mary E. (Pierce) Sayers, both of whom continued their residence in Clarion county until they died, the father having there been actively concerned with lumbering activities in the early days and having also developed one of the excellent farms of Redbank township.

Both parents passed the closing years of their lives on this old homestead. Dr. Sayers is indebted to the public schools of his native township for his preliminary educational discipline, and as a boy he gained practical experience in connection with the operations of the home farm. He pursued a higher course of study in the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Clarion and the West Millville Academy, from which last named institution he was graduated in 1895. In preparation for the work of his chosen profession he entered the medical department of Western University, now known as the University of Pittsburgh, and on the 25th of March, 1897, he received from this well ordered institution his well earned degree of doctor of medicine.

Shortly after his graduation in the medical school Dr. Sayers established his residence at Reynoldsville, and there he has since continued in the general practice of his profession, at no time permitting himself to lose touch with the advances made in medical and surgical science and bringing to bear his technical knowledge and skill as well as an abiding human sympathy in the work of his exacting profession, which he has honored alike by his character and services. He is one of the influential members of the Jefferson County Medical Society, which he served as president in 1914, and is identified also with the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife are earnest members of the Presbyterian Church.

He was one of the organizers of the People's National Bank of Reynoldsville and was a member of its directorate until his recent election to the presidency. He subordinates all else to the demands of his profession, and thus has had no time or desire for political activity or for the honors of ordinary public office, though he gives a stanch allegiance to the Republican party and is well fortified in his convictions concerning economic and governmental politics. However, he has served creditably as coroner of Jefferson county from 1908 to 1916.