History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 95

Author: Prowell, George R.
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1372

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JACOB HAY, M. D., physician and drug- practiced his profession at York. Dr. Nes devoted much attention to local, state and national politics and became an influential leader among the Whigs of York County. In 1843, he was elected to Congress on an independent ticket. After an interim of two years he was twice re-elected by the Whigs, serving in all six years. In 1848, while occupying a seat in Congress, ex- President John Quincy Adams, then a rep- resentative from Massachusetts, was striken with apoplexy. Dr. Nes was one of the physicians who rendered medical aid to the distinguished statesman, who died in the Speaker's room, in the National Capitol, shortly after he received the fatal attack. Dr. Nes died at York, September 10, 1850, a few months before the expiration of his third Congressional term.

DR. GEORGE W. HINKLE, one of the early physicians of Hanover, was born in that borough in 1804. He was a son of John L. Hinkle, who had served twenty- County. Dr. Hinkle obtained his medical education at the University of Maryland, and then settled in the practice of his pro- fession at Hanover, where he continued the remainder of his life. During the cavalry engagement at Hanover, June 30. 1863, Dr. Hinkle, together with Rev. Dr. W. K. Zie- ber, of that borough, appeared on the streets during the fighting and carried the wounded to places of safety. After the battle, he acted as surgeon to the wounded soldiers. He died in 1868.

DR. ALEXANDER SMALL was born at York. March 8, 1805. He obtained his

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education in the schools of York and at St. vanced age and died at Hanover in the year Mary's College, where he completed a class- 1881.

ical course in 1821. He then took up the study of medicine and received his degree from the University of Maryland in 1824. For a period of eight years he practiced medicine in York and then retired from his profession to turn his attention to other av- ocations. With Edward G. Smyser as a partner, he operated a large foundry on North Beaver Street, which later became known as the Variety Iron Works. The

DR. CHARLES BISHOP of Manchester, was born in that borough in 1810. He read medicine in York and after receiving a cer- tificate from his preceptor, began the prac- tice of his profession in his native town. For a period of twenty years or more he had a large practice. Later in life he retired and lived quietly at his home in Manchester, where he died about 1880. .

DR. GEORGE L. SHEARER, who prac- firm of Small and Smyser did a large busi- ticed medicine for the long period of fifty- ness at these works. Dr. Small was treas- two years, at Dillsburg, was born in Adams urer of the York Navigation Company, County in 1800. He obtained a good pre- which constructed a canal to the Susque- paratory education and received his medical

hanna, at the mouth of the Codorus Creek. degree from the University of Maryland. Immediately after graduation he settled in the practice of medicine at Dillsburg where sional career. He was prominent in med- He was treasurer of the company which built a railroad from Wrightsville to York, and was first president of the York Gas he remained throughout his whole profes- Company. In politics he affiliated with the Democratic party. In 1843, he was the ical circles in York and Cumberland Coun- He Democratic candidate for Congress but was ties and conducted a large practice. defeated by Dr. Henry Nes, who ran as an died at Dillsburg in 1878. Two of his sons, independent and received also the Whig Niles H. Shearer and James Mitchell vote of the county. At the opening of the Shearer studied medicine. The former en- Civil war, Dr. Small took an interest in the gaged in the drug business in York. Dr. enlistment of troops for the cause of the James M. Shearer completed a classical Union. In July, 1861, he received a special course from Dickinson and was graduated

order from Governor Curtin to organize the Thomas A. Scott regiment at York for the purpose of guarding the Northern Central Railroad, and acting as a reserve regiment. stationed near the Maryland line. This or- ganization entered the service in August, 1861, as the Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Regiment. He died at York, June 8, 1862.

from Jefferson Medical College. He en- gaged in the practice of medicine in his na- tive town. During the Civil war, he served on the surgical staff of the United States Hospital at York, and later was transferred to the Lincoln Hospital at Washington, D. C., where he remained until the end of the war. He had a large and successful expe- rience as a hospital surgeon. After the close of the war, he returned to Dillsburg, where he practiced medicine for the re- mainder of his life.

DR. JOHN CULBERTSON, a promi- nent physician of Hanover for a period of forty years, was a native of Ireland where he was born about 1800. He obtained his education in his native land and was ac- DR. LEANDER W. GOLDSBORO, of Hanover, was born in Frederick, Maryland, in 1804. He received a classical education at Columbia and Princeton colleges and read medicine in his native town. He spent the two succeeding years at the University of Maryland and received his medical degree from that institution in 1828. He prac- ticed medicine in Maryland until 1845 when he removed to Hanover. Although he was unable to speak the German language he soon built up a large practice and was suc- cessful in his profession. He remained in credited with having been a graduate of the University of Dublin. He settled at Han- over in 1840, and soon built up a large prac- tice. Being of Irish birth he never spoke the Pennsylvania German, then in common use in the community where he followed the profession of a physician. His practice dur- ing part of his career extended over a large area of country. He was active as a Dem- ocratic politician and entertained James Buchanan at his residence in Hanover in 1852 during the presidential campaign of that year. Dr. Culbertson lived to an ad- Hanover until 1864 and then entered the

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United States army as assistant surgeon. After the close of the war he joined the reg- ular army in which he served as surgeon until 1874 and then removed to Philadelphia where he died June 28, 1891, at the age of eighty-seven years. His son, Dr. C. E. Goldsboro, has practiced medicine in Hun- terstown, Adams County, for many years.

JAMES W. KERR, M. D., for thirty years a leading practitioner of medi- cine in York, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

September 19, 1813. He obtained his preliminary edu- cation in the public schools of his

native county and at West Notting- ham Academy in Maryland. He then en- tered Jefferson College, the first Presby- terian institution of its kind west of the Alleghany Mountains, from which he was graduated in the class of 1834. After leav- ing college he began the study of medicine at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, under Dr. Roberts and matriculated in the medical de- partment of the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1840. The same year he came to York and soon took high rank in the practice of medicine, throughout his long and success- ful career as a physician and surgeon. He served many years as a school director and for a period of thirty years was superin- tendent of the Sunday School connected with the first Presbyterian Church of York. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the York Collegiate Institute. He was married in 1844 to Jane, daughter of Dr. William McIlvaine, a prominent citizen of DR. WILLIAM H. KILGORE. of Peach Bottom, was born in Lower Chanceford Township, October 31, 1815. He acquired York. They had three children, two of daughter, was married to Dr. William F. his education at the Brogueville Latin

whom died in youth. Martha, the surviving Bacon, of York. 1889.

DR. J. P. SMITH, of Hanover, was born in Conewago Township, Adams County, in 1809. He attended the parochial school connected with the Catholic Church, until the age of 18, and then entered St. Mary's College at Emmittsburg, Maryland, where he graduated in the classical course. De- ciding to take up the study of medicine, he sylvania and received his degree from that institution in 1836, and then engaged in the died December 7, 1886.

deeply interested in the growth and devel- opment of the borough. During the cav- alry engagement at Hanover in 1863, he was one of the surgeons who took care of the wounded soldiers of that battle, and others who were brought there from the battle- field of Gettysburg. He was one of the originators of the First National Bank of Hanover which he served as president. At the time of his death in 1883, he bequeathed a large sum of money for the establishment of a public library at Hanover, at the death of his widow.

DR. JAMES YEAMAN BRYAN, for a period of forty-two years a prominent phy- sician in Peach Bottom Township, was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1805. He began his medical studies in Philadel- phia under the direction of Dr. George Mc- Clellan, father of General George B. Mc- Clellan of the Civil war. In 1832, soon after graduating from the University of Pennsyl- vania, he settled in Peach Bottom Town- ship. His practice extended over a large area of country, for he excelled as a phy- sician and was also a good surgeon. Bryansville grew around his residence and for many years he was postmaster of the village. Dr. Bryan was interested in the cause of education. In order to give the youths of the vicinity an opportunity of ac- quiring an education, he founded an acad- emy which was conducted for several years by instructors, who taught the higher branches preparatory to college. He died at Bryansville, October 6, 1874.

Dr. Kerr died June 10, School, Delaware Academy, and York

County Academy, and graduated from Franklin College, Ohio, in 1836. He began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. McIlvaine and in the fall of 1837, entered Jefferson Medical College, graduating in 1839. He first began to practice at Man- chester, where he remained four years and then removed to York. In 1848 he settled in Peach Bottom Township, and in 1851 re- spent two years at the University of Penn- moved to Delta. Dr. Kilgore was known

as a successful physician and surgeon and

practice of his profession at Hanover. Dr. DR. JOHN AHL, who practiced for Smith became an influential citizen and was many years at Dover, was born at York,

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April 15, 1822. He was educated at the Wrightsville for several terms. He died public schools and the York County Acad- January 13, 1894. emy. He began the study of medicine in

1842, under Dr. William McIlvaine, of York, was born near Lancaster, June 19, 1824. and attended Washington University, of He obtained a thorough preparatory educa- Maryland, from which institution he re- ceived his medical degree in 1845. Soon after graduation he settled in Dover, where he remained for a period of twenty years, for most of that time, the only physician in the borough. On July 1, 1863, when Stu- art's Confederate cavalry halted at Dover on the march toward Carlisle, General Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, com- manding one of the brigades, had his head- quarters for a few hours in Dr. Ahl's office, and there issued parole papers to 400 Union soldiers, prisoners of war, captured at the battle of Hanover on June 30. Late in life Dr. Ahl removed to York, where he died April 4, 1902. tion in the public schools and Emaus Insti- tute, a flourishing academy at Middletown, and then entered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg. He entered Pennsylvania Medical College at Philadelphia and was graduated from that institution in 1848. From 1848 to 1859 he practiced his profes- sion at Elizabethtown and Safe Harbor, Lancaster County. Dr. Alleman removed to Hanover during the fall of 1859 and re- mained in continuous practice for a period of twenty-eight years. He was a diligent student of medical literature and had a lu- crative practice which extended over a large area of country. He died at Hanover, Jan- uary 14, 1887. His son, Dr. Horace Alle- man, is a practicing physician at Hanover.

DR. JOHN L. FREE, of Stewartstown, was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, March 5, 1821. In 1823 he came to Shrews- bury Township with his parents. He be- gan the study of medicine in 1844 and grad- uated from the University of Maryland in 1848. After practicing two years at Dills- burg and New Freedom, he went to Phila- delphia and attended a course of medical lectures. In 1850 he moved to Stewarts- town, where he established a large practice and became an influential citizen. He was identified with various progressive move- ments in the lower end of York County and was one of the founders of the English and Classical Institute of Stewartstown, which prepared a number of young men and women to enter higher institutions of learn- ing.

DR. JOHN A. THOMPSON, of Wrights- ville, was born in Franklin County, Penn- sylvania, November 3, 1823. He attended the public schools and an academy at Fay- etteville and then engaged in teaching and clerking for several years. Having decided to become a physician he entered Jefferson Medical College in 1849 and was graduated from that institution in 1852. The same year that he received his medical degree he settled in the practice of his profession at Wrightsville. He became active and prom- inent in medical circles and was a successful practitioner for a period of nearly forty years. He served as school director in

DR. HORACE ALLEMAN, of Hanover,

DR. LEVI D. FREY, a native of York County, was born in 1829. He read medi- cine with Dr. T. N. Haller and finished his course in the Medical University of New York City. For a period of twenty-five years he practiced his profession with suc- cess in the borough of Glen Rock. During the last ten years of his life he lived at York, where he died December 6, 1894.

DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN POR- TER, of Chanceford Township, was born in New Castle County, Delaware, May 19, 1827. He obtained his preliminary educa- tion at a local academy and Delaware Col- lege. In 1851 he began his medical studies in the office of Dr. J. R. McClurg, of Dela- ware, and in 1855 was graduated at Jeffer- son Medical College. Immediately after leaving college, he located in Chanceford Township, near Brogueville, where he be- came a successful physician. He practiced medicine in this community during the re- mainder of his life. He was interested in educational matters and served for a period of twelve years as school director of Chance- ford Township. In 1868 he was elected to represent York County in the State Legisla- ture and at the end of this term was re- elected to the same office. He died at Brogueville, 1886.

DR. W. F. BRINKMAN, of Jefferson, was born in Manchester, Maryland, in 1822. He obtained his preparatory education in

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the academy at Manchester and began the graduated doctor of medicine from Jefferson study of medicine with Dr. Beltz of that town. After spending three years at Wash- ington University, he was graduated from that institution in 1846. The same year he entered upon the practice of his profession in Manchester, and remained there until 1849. He spent the remainder of his long and successful career at Jefferson, where his practice extended over a large portion of Codorus and North Codorus Townships. He died December 29, 1889.

DR. CHARLES M. NES, son of Dr. Henry Nes, was born in York, June 26, 1827. He received his early education at the York County Academy and studied med - icine with his father, Dr. Henry Nes, and attended lectures at Columbia Medical Col- lege, Washington, D. C. In addition to the practice of medicine, he engaged in a num- ber of business enterprises, mainly in the manufacture of iron and steel. He was largely instrumental in the development of the mining of iron ore in York County, which many years ago was an extensive in- dustry, and was one of the founders of the York Rolling Mill. Dr. Nes was one of the commissioners from Pennsylvania ap- pointed by President Grant in 1873 to the Vienna Exposition. He died at York, June, 1896.

DR. HENRY C. ECKERT was born at Hanover in 1825. He obtained the rudi- ments of his education in the public schools of his native town and then entered Penn- sylvania College at ,Gettysburg, from which he was graduated in 1846. He entered the medical department of Pennsylvania Col- lege at Philadelphia, and received his med- ical degree from that institution in 1848. Crimean War in 1855, he went to Europe,

From that time until his death in 1867, he practiced his profession in the borough of Hanover. After the engagement between the cavalry divisions commanded by General Kilpatrick and General Stuart in and around Hanover, in June, 1863, Dr. Eckert acted as surgeon for the wounded Union and Con- federate soldiers. He died in August, 1867.

Medical College. After practicing medicine three years at York, he was elected superin- tendent of schools for York County in 1856 and re-elected in 1859. Through his earnest efforts he advanced the interests of public education through the county. Before his second term had expired, he resigned the office to accept a position as assistant sur- geon in the United States Hospital at York. During the succeeding three years he was one of the leading surgeons at that hospital, where 14,000 sick and wounded Union sol- diers received medical atention. After the close of the war, he resumed the practice of medicine at York.

DR. LUTHER M. LOCHMAN, son of Rev. A. M. Lochman, pastor of Christ Lu- theran Church of York, was born in August, 1829, at Harrisburg. After leaving the York County Academy, he was a clerk in the Barnitz Drug Store at York. He stud- jed medicine with Dr. Hay and later with Dr. Kerr, and received his medical degree from Pennsylvania Medical College, of Phil- adelphia, in 1852. He practiced medicine a short time at Littlestown, and six years at Manchester borough. The remainder of his life he practiced his profession at York. He died May 22, 1897.

DR. HENRY L. SMYSER, army sur- geon, was born at York, December 8, 1825. He read medicine with Dr. J. W. Kerr, and in 1847, was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He practiced one year in Jackson Township, and during the excite- ment, in 1849, resulting from the discovery of gold, he went to California, where he re- mained two years. At the opening of the

was appointed surgeon in the Russian army and was present at the Siege of Sebastopol. At the close of the war, he received from Emperor Alexander II of Russia, the deco- ration of St. Stanislaus, and also a medal of honor given in recognition of his services. During the Civil war, Dr. Smyser was one of the surgeons of the United States Hos- pital at York. He died September 6, 1900, at he age of seventy-four.

DR. ANDREW R. BLAIR, of York, was born in Lancaster County, in 1826. He re- DR. EDWARD H. PENTZ was born in York, January 24, 1826. He studied medi- cine with Dr. T. N. Haller and was gradu- ated at Bellevue Medical College Hospital ceived a good academic education and stud- ied medicine first with Dr. Samuel Kenagy, of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, and later with Dr. T. N. Haller, of York. In 1853. he was in New York City in 1848 and practiced

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DR. WILLIAM F. SMITH, physician and army surgeon, was born at Airville, Lower Chanceford Township, in 1836. Af- ter attending the public schools and the academy near his home he went to Lancas- ter and entered the office of the noted sur- geon, Dr. John Atlee. He received careful preparatory training at Lancaster and then entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, from which institu- tion he was graduated March 14, 1861. Having a marked talent for surgery he of- fered his services to the government and was appointed assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. He followed the fortunes of this regiment during the various campaigns in which it participated until October 5, 1862. In March, 1863, he was assigned to duty with the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment. Soon afterward he was ap- pointed surgeon-in-chief of the Seventy- third Pennsylvania Regiment which had en- listed for three years. In this capacity he had a large and varied experience as a sur- geon on the battle-field and in the field hos- pitals. Dr. Smith had entire charge of the hospitals belonging to the army divisions commanded by General Philip Kearney, of New Jersey, and General John W. Geary, of Pennsylvania, during the Peninsula cam- paign under McClellan in 1862. After the close of the war, Dr. Smith returned to his

DR. WILLIAM F. JOHNSTON, who

medicine in York the remainder of his life. Dr. Pentz was physician for the county practiced medicine in York between the almshouse for eighteen years, surgeon for the Northern Central Railroad Company, and a member of the Board of United States Pension Examiners of York County. He held a high position in his profession both as a surgeon and a family physician. He died November 30, 1873. years 1840 and 1875, was a descendant of Samuel Johnston, who was the first lawyer admitted to the York Bar, soon after the county was erected in 1749. Dr. Johnston obtained his medical education at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and practiced his profession at York until he retired in 1875. DR. S. J. FINLEY was born in Lower Chanceford, November 21, 1830. He spent the first twenty years of his life on his father's farm, and after obtaining his med- ical education in Baltimore, he practiced medicine in Peach Bottom and Lower Chanceford Townships. He was one of the surgeons of the United States Hospital at York, during the Civil War. His son, Dr. Ovid M. Johnston, was assistant surgeon in the Fifty-fifth Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, during the Civil War, and soon after his retirement from the army, moved to Missouri. In or- der to recuperate his health, he went to Cal- ifornia, where he died.

DR. FRANCIS A. H. KOCH was born at York, August 31, 1830. He acquired his education at the public schools and the York County Academy, and then began the study of medicine with his father, Dr. Francis Koch, of York. After spending three years at the University of Maryland, he began the practice of his profession at Manchester, where he remained two years. He returned to York for a year and a half and then re- moved to North Codorus, where he prac- ticed for sixteen years. In 1871, he re- moved to the borough of Hanover, where he continued in active practice in medicine ' and surgery for eighteen years. He died there September 30, 1892.

DR. GEORGE R. HURSH was born in Fairview Township, February 6, 1835. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1857. After leaving college, he practiced medicine in Fairview Township. In 1868- 69, hie represented York County in the state legislature and served on various important committees. After returning from the leg- islature, he devoted considerable time to the cultivation of a large farm which he owned in the northern part of Fairview Township. In 1881, Dr. Hursh removed to Harrisburg, where he died.

DR. JACOB HAY, son of Dr. Jacob Hay, was born at York, in 1833. After obtaining native place where he continued to practice his early education at the York County his profession until the time of his death, Academy, he read medicine in the office of March 3, 1900. His son, Dr. William C. his father. He entered the medical depart- Smith, a graduate of the University of Penn- ment of the University of Maryland, where sylvania, engaged in the practice of medi- he was graduated in 1854. He practiced cine at York. medicine during his whole professional ca-

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reer at York. In 1861, he became second born in Cumberland County, October 23. lieutenant in the Eighty-seventh Regiment, 1833. He began the study of medicine un- Pennsylvania Volunteers, but after a few der Dr. Robert C. Young. He graduated months of service, resigned and returned to from Jefferson Medical College in 1857. his practice at York. He was for twelve Immediately after his graduation he located years a member of the school board of York in the practice of medicine in the village of and three years president of that body. He Yocumtown. His professional duties re- also served as president of the York County quired him to travel over a large extent of Medical Society. Dr. Hay died at York. October 18, 1897.

DR. JONAS DEISINGER was born in practice his profession until the time of his Jackson Township, April 18, 1833. Early in life he taught school for three years when he began the study of medicine under Dr. C. S. Picking. He first attended the Penn- sylvania Medical College at Philadelphia in DR. WILLIAM S. ROLAND was born the year 1858 and then practiced medicine in Lancaster County and removed to York in 1840, when he began the practice of med- icine. He continued actively engaged in his profession for the long period of fifty-seven years. During this time he was promi- nently identified with the business interests of the borough and county. For three

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 95

Author: Prowell, George R. Publication date: 1907 Publisher: J. H. Beers Number of Pages: 1372

Author: Prowell, George R.
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1372