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Pottstown-Mrs. A. D. Hopper, chairman. 1917-1918, work room,
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home service. 1923, Mrs. George Q. Sheppard, chairman. Work room, civilian relief, public health nurse, well baby clinic, roll call.
Royersford-Dr. Joseph A. Buckwalter, Dorothy L. Latshaw, chair- men. 1917-1918, work room. 1923, Dr. Joseph A. Buckwalter, Mrs. Joseph A. Buckwalter, chairmen, roll call.
West Conshohocken-Mrs. Mary Duke Smythe, chairman. Auxili- ary-Gulph Mills, Mrs. Sullivan, chairman. 1917-1918, work room, home service. 1923, Mrs. Maud V. Davis, chairman, work room, roll call.
The following are the names of some women in Montgomery county who served in the World War:
Overseas with the American Red Cross :
Miss Elizabeth Coombes (Mrs. George Strode), Abington Hospital, Abington ; nurse with Pennsylvania University Unit.
Miss Marcella K. Flynn (Mrs. George Rice), Abington Hospital. Miss Ida E. Fretz, Ambler.
Mrs. Walter Fox, Bala-Cynwd.
Miss Mary G. Vanneman, Bala-Cynwyd.
Miss Henrietta Ely, Bryn Mawr.
Miss Helen Winthrop, Bryn Mawr.
Miss Esther Stiles, Bryn Mawr.
Mrs. Edward Bell Trumbhaar, Chestnut Hill.
Miss Katharine Kelly, Conshohocken.
Miss Mary G. Wight, Jenkintown; refugee work, Children's Bureau.
Miss Stephanie C. Pohle, Lansdale.
Miss Edna M. Rockfeller, Lansdale.
Miss Sara Scheetz (Mrs. Charles Quillman), Norristown; Nurse's Aid.
Miss Harriet Kulp, Pottstown.
Miss Anna S. Kent (Mrs. John W. Moore), Wyncote; Episcopal Hospital Unit.
Overseas with the Y. M. C. A .:
Miss Elizabeth Arnold, Ardmore.
Miss Edna E. Flenner, Ardmore.
Miss Esther Latch, Bala-Cynwyd.
Miss Hellen Pedrick, Bala-Cynwyd.
Miss Mary Clark, Bryn Mawr.
Miss Gertrude Ely, Bryn Mawr.
Miss Miriam Ristine, Bryn Mawr.
Miss Susannah Ridgway (Mrs. Bradley J. Saunders), Jenkintown.
Overseas with the American Friends' Service Committee :
Miss Dorothea B. Jones (Mrs. George V. Downing), Conshohocken ; in France.
Miss Leah Cadbury, Haverford ; in France.
Miss Emma T. R. Williams, Norristown ; in Germany.
Overseas in the American Library Association Service : Miss Elizabeth J. Webster, Conshohocken ; in France.
Nurses overseas, not with the Red Cross:
Miss Margaret Custer, Norristown.
Miss Emma Gibson, Norristown.
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Miss Eunice Gotwals, Norristown.
Miss Elizabeth Kelly, Norristown. Miss Agnes Shore, Norristown. Miss Ada Sturgis, Norristown. Miss Claire Wheeler, Norristown.
Miss Elizabeth Nichols, Glenside.
With the Red Cross, not overseas :
Miss Nellie Elder, Norristown.
Miss Viola Woodward, Norristown.
Miss Anna Kohl, North Wales.
Army nurses, but not overseas :
Miss Elizabeth F. Dewey, Bryn Mawr; Naval Base Hospital, No. 5. Miss Leta M. Edwards, Bryn Mawr ; Base Hospital, No. 10.
Miss Nan Craven, Norristown.
Miss Elizabeth Michener, Norristown.
Miss Miriam Springer, Norristown.
Miss Sara Kearns, North Wales.
Not classified :
Mrs. Sarah Tyler Marshall, Rydal; reconstruction work, American Committee for Devastated France.
Miss Mary Super, Narberth; Near East Relief.
Miss Margaret Hopper, Narberth; Emergency Aid in Paris and Bel- grade orphanages.
Miss Elizabeth Snyder, Ardmore; with Sanitary Train.
Miss Rose Doland, Bryn Mawr; ambulance driver in France.
Miss Lulu Sidwell, Glenside ; dietician.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
In this chapter will be found a concise account of the various physi- cians, medical societies and hospitals within Montgomery county from early days to the present.
When this county was first organized, the science of medicine, though hundreds of years old, had made but little real progress in the "art of healing," as it was then called. In many instances the various diseases incident to the human kind were treated by virtues supposed, or other- wise to be found in herbs found growing within the borders of each pioneer settlement. Doubtless they had some healing qualities and had they been scientifically administered after proper care had been had to prepare them for medicinal uses, might have been excellent specifics. Yet, there was need for the learned followers of Galen, the earliest med- ical dean. One custom obtained throughout the country down as late as the forties and fifties-that of being bled. This act of letting a quan- tity of blood flow from the veins, at least in fall and spring of each year, was almost universal. And while one would naturally suppose that a physician would have the monopoly in such cases, yet in many instances the professional barber was considered good in such work, and it is said that this custom among barbers led to the red stripes found on the "barber poles," still universally in use. The red stripe indicated that one could, at that shop, be "blooded." In this connection in after years a Montgomery county physician, Dr. Hiram Corson, became nationally famous by his advocacy of bleeding for pneumonia.
In those early times the midwife flourished and believed she had as much right to be in a sick room as had the trained physician. She never thought she was encroaching on the rights of a learned profession that might have taken many years to master at a regular medical school. With barbers bleeding his patrons, and the midwife following the rounds in the neighborhood looking after "confinement" cases, the services of educated physicians were seldom brought into requisition. It was only in extreme cases, when life was believed to be in imminent danger, that he was summoned to the bedside. But with a higher state of civiliza- tion and general advancement, the demand for "family doctors" became more and more common. Until early in the fifties there had not come into existence the numerous schools of medicine we now have. The one known as "regular" or allopathic, and the herbal school of medicine, were mostly in use. While we have Eclectic and Homeopathic schools of medicine, with large colleges throughout the country, yet the larger per cent. of medical colleges to-day are of the old "regular" school of medicine. It is to be noted that while at the present time the family
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physician is still retained to a large degree, there was developed an age of specialism, and almost every physician either on graduation or shortly afterwards, assumed that part of medicine which he had particularly studied or adopted or specialized in that one branch. This has possibly been brought about from the fact that it is almost impossible for one mind to successfully grasp all the knowledge for a general practice, brought about by the rapid advance in medicine during the last generation, and the concentration of the physicians in the larger cities, with our easy quick modes of travel, the country physician has almost become extinct ; in our own county, numerous physicians have moved in from the coun- try, their years of country work having made them very successful practitioners.
Early Physicians-The first physician in this county, it is believed, was Dr. Griffith Owen. Drs. Thomas Wynne and Griffith Owen came with William Penn when he settled in Philadelphia, and as Montgomery county was then included within Philadelphia, Dr. Owen must have been the first in this county. About the date of this county being organized by itself (1784), Dr. Thomas Graeme became a resident physician here, locating at what was ever after known as Graeme Park. He later be- came elevated to the Council, and was master in chancery. He died in 1772.
Now having established the first physicians to practice in this county, it will not be the province of this work to extend in detail an account of the many doctors who have practiced herein during all these long and multiplied years. However, it may not be without interest to make a few brief notes on some of these physicians who have been successful in the medical practice of the county, away back in the past, for it has been through their experience that greater medical skill and a pro- founder knowledge of the science of medicine have come to obtain to- day. Such a list includes Dr. Christian Frederick Martin, a graduate of Berlin, Germany, who came to this county in 1742 and practiced at Trappe upwards of thirty years. He left four sons, all physicians, who at one time in their careers practiced within this county.
Next came Dr. Jonathan Potts, son of John Potts, of Pottsgrove, grad- uated in 1771; was conducting a drug store and practicing medicine when the Revolution broke out; his place was at Reading; he sold out and joined Washington's army and rose to a high position, becoming director-general of the Northern Department of the army. Many of his letters and papers are on file in the Pennsylvania Historical Society.
Another doctor whose name is well known to medical men-Dr. William Potts Dewees, was born in Pottsgrove, 1768; graduated at the University in 1789, entered upon practice at Abington, this county. He moved to a wider field in Philadelphia, where he won fame by devoting his efforts toward the subject of obstetrics, at that time a novel branch of
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the medical profession in the United States. He delivered the first full course of lectures on this subject, and by 1812 had amassed a fortune by these lectures. He died in 1841, at Philadelphia.
Dr. Isaac Huddleson settled in the medical practice in Norristown in 1793, and was highly successful. He was associated with the forma- tion of the Norristown Library Company. It was written of him that "he was a careful, successful surgeon, and so placid and kind in dispo- sition that he probably never had an enemy in all his life." He left one son who practiced medicine in Norristown, and later in Delaware county. In 1831 the only two physicians in Norristown were Drs. Huddleson and George W. Thomas, who were advanced in years, and were soon joined by Dr. William Corson, and the three made a splendid team in the med- ical profession, and frequently consulted one with the other.
With the beginning of the nineteenth century, there arrived numer- ous physicians, including Drs. John Jones, F. S. Wilson, Gove Mitchell, Dr. Hart, Joseph Merideth and uncle Dr. Hugh Merideth, Silas Huff, Dr. McLean, Dr. Charles Moore; Dr. Bacheldor, at Hatboro, who prac- ticed on foot when his patient failed to provide him a conveyance; Dr. Amos Griffith practiced at North Wales twelve years, and then went to farming. Others who acted honorably their part in the profession were: Drs. Samuel Gartley, born in 1779; Samuel Freedley, born 1799, gradu- ated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1821, later took up homœop- athy and practiced in Philadelphia; Robert J. Dodd, of Lower Merion township, born in Philadelphia in 1809, studied medicine under Gen. George B. McClellan's father, graduated from Jefferson Medical Col- lege in 1831, and most of his eventful life was spent abroad in important medical positions for the government. He died in Lower Merion in 1876, a highly honored man. He left a number of sons who practiced medicine in this and nearby counties.
Later physicians included Drs. Jacob Knipe, Hiram Corson, William Corson, Joseph Leedom, E. C. Leedom, James Hamer, W. A. Van Bus- kirk, Charles Shoemaker, Henry De Witt Pawling, J. Warren Royer, John K. Reid, L. W. Read, Margaret Phillips Richardson, Edward Read- ing, M. Newbury, John Todd, A. D. Markley-all gave many years of their lives in this county to their duties as faithful physicians, and have long since been numbered among the deceased. Another noted physi- cian was Mary Henderson Stinson, born in Norristown in 1819, and became a physician of ability, when her sex had only just commenced to be admitted in medical colleges and to practice. She was bright, intelli- gent and forceful, and lived not in vain, but for the uplift of her own sex.
Physicians of Forty Years Ago-The following is a list of what is believed to be the names of every physician, of whatever school of med- icine, in practice within Montgomery county in 1883.
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John W. Anderson, Lower Merion. Milton F. Acker, Tylersport.
Reuben High Andrews, Lansdale.
Wm. J. Ashenfelter, Pottstown.
Herbert A. Arnold, Merionville. Harry M. Bunting, Norristown. Henricum Bobb, East Greenville. Horace M. Bellows, Huntington Valley. Cornelius Bartholomew, New Hanover. George A. Blanch, Green Lane.
Abraham R. Benner, Norristown.
Ephraim K. Blanck, Hatfield.
Joseph Y. Bechtol, Schwenksville.
Mary Alice Bennett, Norristown.
Jesse E. Bauman, Telford. David R. Beaver, Conshohocken. Charles Bradley, Norristown.
John K. Blank, Upper Hanover.
N. H. Longabaugh, Norristown.
Edwin C. Leedom, Plymouth.
Robert Coltman, Sr., Jenkintown.
Elwood Corson, Norristown.
Hiram Corson, Plymouth. William Corson, Norristown.
R. Cooper, Shoemakertown. R. H. Chase, Norristown (hospital).
John B. Carrell, Hatboro.
Charles H. Mann, Bridgeport.
John S. Morey, Upper Providence.
A. H. Mellerish, Lower Merion.
P. H. Markley, Hatboro.
A. L. Miller, Tylersport.
Wm. Mckenzie, West Conshohocken. Milton Newbury, Fort Washington. Benjamin H. Nice, Norristown.
Joannem Paxson, Jenkintown.
John G. Hillegass, Pennsburg.
John V. Hoffman, Gilbertsville.
Charles B. Hough, Three Tuns.
Joseph S. Hill, Ardmore. William H. Hall, Conshohocken.
Mary P. Hallowell, Horsham. Russell S. Hill, Weldon.
Benjamin K. Johnson, North Wales.
Ewing Jordan, Norristown Hospital. Francis M. Knipe, Frederick.
Franklin B. Keller, Pottstown.
R. K. Kellor, Salford. V. Z. Kellor, Lower Salford.
J. O. Knipe, Norristown.
Septimus A. Knipe, New Hanover. George S. Kirby, Pottstown. Armett Keratz, Lansdale.
David H. Bergey, Upper Hanover.
David H. Bergey, Perkiomen. F. G. Bigony, Line Lexington. Matthew A. Long, Pottstown. Hiram R. Loux, Souderton. J. W. Lodge, Lower Merion. A. D. Markley, Hatboro. G. K. Meschter, Center Point. Samuel C. Moyer, Lansdale. James G. Mensch, Pennsburg. Amos G. Coleman, Limerick. Edward M. Clifford, Valley Forge.
William A. Cross, Jenkintown. H. H. Drake, Norristown. John Davis, Pottstown.
Thomas Davis, Lower Providence.
Benjamin F. Dismant, Upper Providence.
James Dotterer, Pennsburg.
Phil Y. Eisenburg, Norristown.
Henry DeWitt Pauling, King of Prussia. I. N. Evans, Hatboro.
Jonathan N. Faust, Frederick.
Mahlon Preston, Norristown.
John E. Peters, Jenkintown.
W. C. Roney, Pottstown.
Margaret Richardson, Norristown.
Wm. H. Randle, Jenkintown.
Lewis W. Reid, Conshohocken.
Edward B. Rossiter, Pottstown.
George S. Gerhard, Ardmore.
Thomas Walter Gardiner, Pottstown.
Isiah K. Gerhard, Worcester.
Eman F. Gerhard, Norristown.
James H. Hamer, Collegeville.
William B. Hill, Abington.
George N. Higley, Conshohocken.
Charles M. Robinson, Ambler.
R. G. Reiff, Pottstown.
Horace Still, Norristown.
Henry T. Slemmer, Norristown.
S. C. Seiple, Center Square.
Henry F. Slifer, North Wales.
C. Van Artsdalen, Chelton Hills.
H. H. Whitcomb, Norristown.
M. A. Withers, Pottstown.
S. N. Wiley, Norristown. John Schrack, Jeffersonville. S. N. Wiley, Norristown.
P. O. Wickert, Salfordville.
Wm. Savory, Bryn Mawr. S. B. Swavley, Pottstown. Samuel Wolf, Jr., Skippacksville.
Richard W. Saylor, Pottsgrove.
William L. Shoemaker, Fitzwatertown.
William C. Powell, Jr., Bryn Mawr.
Oliver H. Fisher, Graters Ford.
Milton B. Fretz, Souderton.
Oliver H. Fretz, Salfordville.
Edward M. Fury, Norristown.
M. W. Gilmer, North Wales. Wm. A. Gerhart, Lansdale. Henry G. Groff, Lower Salford.
Charles W. Gumbes, Oaks Station.
O. C. Robinson, Huntington Valley.
S. M. Rambo, Oaks Station. J. Warren Royer, Trappe. H. D. Rosenberger, Hatfield.
Edward Reading, Hatboro. Joseph E. Ritter, Pottstown. George Roney, Pottstown. John Todd, Pottstown. John N. Tenney, Collegeville.
Henry U. Umsted, Upper Providence. J. S. Schrawder, Upper Dublin.
C. B. R. Umsted, Upper Providence. Jacob H. Sheetz, Pottstown. George M. Stiles, Conshohocken.
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G. P. Sargent, Bryn Mawr. Joseph K. Weaver, Norristown. B. H. Shelly, Palm. Joseph W. Winter, Lower Merion.
Albanus Styer, Ambler.
P. O. Wickert, Salfordsville.
M. Y. Weber, Evansburg.
D. W. Shelly, Ambler.
F. S. Wilson, Jarrettown.
Charles Z. Weber, Norristown.
Charles T. Waage, Pennsburg.
Of the one hundred and forty physicians practicing in the county as shown above, only fifty-five are living to-day. Ten have removed from the county and taken up the practice elsewhere.
The physicians who have practiced in the county since the above date (1884), according to an account given of them by Dr. Herbert H. Bos- tock, of Norristown, chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Mont- gomery County Medical Society, are found in connection with the his- tory of that Society within this chapter. Other physicians of the county not members of the Medical Society, hence not given in the list just referred to, but who in recent years have had a practice here are as follows: L. L. Cope, Hatfield ; J. J. Kane, Norristown ; J. I. Care, H. L. Dovey, A. G. Dorris, William J. Manning, all of Norristown ; I. M. Pow- bidis, West Conshohocken; E. M. Vaughan, Royersford; W. J. Davis, J. W. Armstrong, David B. Cooley, A. K. Davidheiser, W. H. Eck, all of Pottstown; C. F. Chandler, Graterford ; J. L. Loux and J. S. Miller, both of Graterford; G. A. Kerling, Pennsburg; A. C. Herman, Lans- dale; Herbert T. Moyer and H. O. Williams, both of Lansdale.
The following-named are the homoeopathic physicians of the county at present : Drs. S. Miles Robinson, Howard C. Nicholoson, M. D. Youngman, Charles D. Fox, J. S. Miller, Collegeville ; H. J. Ervin, B. M. F. Peters, A. C. Heritage, Hatboro; H. M. Bunting, A. R. Garner, Daniel A. Wilson, E. A. Krusen, F. T. Krusen, C. C. Krusen, all of Norristown ; P. G. Atkinson, Thomas Reading, Hatboro; Walter E. Fine, Samuel Sleath, Herbert Moyer, Lansdale; H. O. Williams, Lansdale; E. M. Vaughan, Royersford ; James Shoemaker, Bryn Mawr; Leroy Roth, Con- shohocken; H. Powell, Joseph Brooks, R. C. Hoffman, E. B. Rossiter, Pottstown ; G. A. Shute, Pottstown; David B. Cooley, Pottstown ; T. F. Conover, A. J. Craig, Fort Washington.
Medical Societies-The Montgomery County Medical Society, with general headquarters at Norristown, was organized in January, 1847. Sometimes it holds its meetings at Pottstown, Bryn Mawr, and other places in the county. It now has monthly meetings. The first officers were: Dr. George W. Thomas, president; Dr. Hiram Corson, secretary. The last named was the ancestor or belonged to all the numerous Cor- sons who became prominent physicians and surgeons in Eastern Penn- sylvania. This Doctor Corson practiced at the age of ninety years, and died two years later, in March, 1896. For many years he was a member of the American Medical Association, and a noted medical writer. He put forward his niece, Miss Anderson, and educated her for the medical profession, among the first in the country of her sex.
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The first regular call to organize a medical society in this county was attended by Drs. George W. Thomas, Hiram Corson, William Corson, Washington G. Nugent, and John L. Foulke. The object as stated in their first constitution was "to cultivate and extend the science of med- icine, to sustain and elevate the character of the profession, to protect the interests and promote harmony amongst its members. Any physi- cian of a good moral character and respectable standing in the profes- sion may become a member of this society." The records disclose the fact that in 1883 its membership was fifty-four, and it annually sent delegates to the State and American Associations.
Among the prominent members in the past may now be recalled such men as Drs. J. K. Weaver and L. W. Read, both at one time Surgeon Generals of Pennsylvania, both in the Civil War and Spanish-American War. Dr. Read was also in the early Crimean War of Europe. Another quite noted doctor was Henry F. Folley, M. D., of King of Prussia, a borough of this county, who died several years ago. Another honored member was Dr. J. O. Knipe, now deceased; his brother still practices medicine in eastern Pennsylvania. For a list of members of this Society who served in the late World War, see below.
The Montgomery County Medical Society stands third in member- ship and strength of all the societies in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Allegheny counties only exceeding her. Already $3,000 of a permanent fund is on hand for the building of a permanent home for the Society at Norristown. The present officers of the Society are: Dr. W. R. Roberts, president ; Dr. E. S. Byers, secretary ; W. G. Miller, treasurer ; Dr. Rob- ert P. Elmer and John B. Sherborn, M. D., vice-presidents. Meetings are held monthly. The Society publishes a "Monthly Bulletin," giving much information to the membership. The present editors are Drs. Herbert A. Bostock, Frank C. Parker, Dr. Simpson.
Members Who Served in World War-The subjoined list gives the names of physicians who were members of this Medical Society, who served in the late World War, either at home in camps, or abroad in the actual strife: F. B. Allen, North Wales, first lieutenant, Camp Dix, New Jersey; A. N. Baggs, Abington, first lieutenant surgeon, still in U. S. service; J. W. Bauman, Lansdale, captain Base Hos- pital, Georgia, is still in U. S. service; Walter Blair, Norristown, first lieutenant Engineer Corps, France ; J. H. Cloud, Ardmore, captain Base Hospital, France; E. F. Corson, Cynwyd, first lieutenant, Camp Grant, Illinois; C. W. Luders, Cynwyd, lieutenant, in Georgia ; F. R. Ramsey, Wyndmoor, first lieutenant, Georgia; A. S. Ruth, Conshohocken, first lieutenant, London, England; John Sharp, Haverford, lieutenant, Long Island ; George W. Miller, Norristown, captain Base Hospital, Louisiana ; W. C. Sheehan, first lieutenant, Georgia ; Russell Keeler, Harleysville, first lieutenant, Georgia; J. C. Simpson, Norristown, first lieutenant,
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Texas ; H. C. Welker, Norristown, captain Base Hospital, Unit No. 34, "Somewhere in France," died in service; R. G. Whitman, Conshohocken, lieutenant, in Georgia ; R. V. Wolfe, Norristown, captain, Long Island; Walter Yeakle, Norristown, Recruiting Station, Virginia; J. A. Mc- Cracken, Norristown, first lieutenant, Georgia ; Isaac Roberts, Lanerich, lieutenant, "Somewhere in France;" W. A. Toland, captain, in Georgia ; George McGinnes, "Somewhere in France."
"Main Line Branch" is the name of a branch of the Montgomery County Medical Society which covers a remote part of the county. It was formed November 17, 1915, but has the advantages of regular mem- bers of the parent society, largely.
The Schuylkill Valley Club is another medical society or club, so- called, organized May 3, 1911. Its first president was Dr. Newton Huns- berger ; W. G. Miller, vice-president ; A. S. Byers, secretary and treasurer. It has thirty members, which is the limited number who can belong at present. Present officers: President, W. J. Wright; vice-president, Elmer G. Gotwall; secretary and treasurer, E. S. Byers, of Norristown.
In the month of June, 1847, when the Medical Society held its first meeting after organizing, a committee was appointed to ascertain how many physicians there were then practicing in Montgomery county, and they reported later that there were sixty-four, of whom forty-seven were graduates of medical schools; four physicians who did not practice, of whom three were graduates; and one man, though not a graduate had practiced medicine here for forty years; also there were two Homœo- pathic doctors and two Thompsonian doctors.
The first woman to become a member of this society, and it is believed the first of her sex to belong to any medical society in the United States, probably in the world, was a pupil of Dr. Hiram Corson, Miss Anna Lukens, a graduate of the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia. The date of this was 1870, up to which time it had not been thought the proper thing for women to practice medicine and be a member of med- ical societies.
The subjoined appears from record to be the 1923 membership of the Montgomery Medical Society :
Frederick B. Allen, North Wales.
H. Croskey Allen, Norristown.
Newton G. Allebaugh, Souderton. Warren Z. Anders, Collegeville.
Franklin G. Bigony, Lansdale.
Chapin Carpenter, Wayne.
Clifford H. Arnold, Ardmore. Herbert A. Arnold, Ardmore. Paul G. Atkinson, Norristown. Edythe A. Bacon, State Hospital. Ervin F. Benner, Salfordville.
J. Howard Cloud, Ardmore.
Walter Chrystie, Bryn Mawr.
R. Z. Cope, Hatfield. George T. Lukens, Conshohocken.
Joseph E. Beldeman, Norristown.
Philip J. Lukens, Ambler.
Herbert A. Bostock, Norristown.
Charles W. Luders, Cynwyd.
George I. McLeod, Ardmore.
John T. McDonald, Norristown.
Thomas F. Branson, Rosemont. Joel D. Brown (outside county). Franklin D. Brush, Phoenixville.
Frederick Bushong, Pottstown.
Edgar S. Buyers, Norristown.
Carl F. Bigony, Lansdale.
John N. Markley, Schwenksville.
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Lee F. Mauger, Pottstown.
James A. McCracken, Norristown. George McGinnis, Norristown. William Mckenzie, Conshohocken. Perry W. Mclaughlin, Norristown. Anthony C. Messmer, Ardmore. George W. Miller, Norristown. Joseph S. Miller, Collegeville. S. Metz Miller (State Hospital). William C. Miller, Norristown. Ronald C. Moore, Schwenksville. D. B. Moyer, Lansdale.
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