BIO:  John C. FELTY, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 354

JOHN C. FELTY, Gettysburg, is a native of Pennsylvania, born at Hunterstown, 
Adams County, March 25, 1849, a son of John F. and Mary (Neely) Felty.  His 
paternal and maternal ancestors were among the early settlers of the State, and 
were generally farmers.  John F. Felty, whose death occurred March 17, 1876, at 
the age of fifty-eight years, was a farmer, and for twenty-six years a justice 
of the peace, was engaged in the settlement of numerous estates.  Our subject is 
the elder of two children.  His early life was spent with his parents on the 
farm.  The foundation of his education was laid in the district schools and at 
the Hunterstown Academy.  He entered the freshman class of Pennsylvania College 
in 1866, and was graduated form the institute in 1870.  After graduation he 
became professor of Latin and Greek in the Keystone State Normal School at 
Kutztown, Penn., which position he held for one year.  He then commenced the 
study of medicine, and entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he 
graduated with the degree M.D. in 1873.  He then located in South Bethlehem, 
Penn., where he served as one of the physicians to St. Luke’s Hospital until 
1876.  He then returned to his native county, where he has since devoted himself 
to the study of his profession.  Dr. Felty, by his professional skill and 
popularity as a gentleman, has acquired an extensive practice.  He is a member 
of the Adams County and State Medical Societies; is an active Mason; a member of 
the Presbyterian Church.  Since 1883 he has been the physician of the alms-house 
of Adams County.