BIO:  Joshua Sewell KEMP, Germany Township, 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 425

JOSHUA SEWELL KEMP, physician and druggist, Littlestown, was born March 29, 
1835, in Baltimore County, Md., and is a son of John and Eleanor (Caples) Kemp, 
the former a farmer by occupation.  He remained with his father until twenty-two 
years of age, in the meantime completing his literary studies by attending the 
Franklin Academy at Reisterstown, Md.  When twenty-two he began reading medicine 
with Dr. J. L. Gibbons of Pikesville, Md., and subsequently was graduated at the 
medical college of the University of Maryland, March 10, 1858.  That same year 
he began to practice at Trenton, Baltimore Co., Md., and in 1860 located at 
Littlestown.  In July, 1862, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Ninetieth 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was with it at the battles of 
Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run and Chantilly, and in several skirmishes. In 
November, 1862, on account of sickness, he resigned and returned to Littlestown, 
where he has been in constant practice since, and from February, 1885, has also 
carried on a drug store.  The Doctor was married, July 20, 1859, to Miss Susan 
Algire, daughter of George Algire, of Baltimore County, Md.  They have three 
children:  Scott Bernard, C. McK. and Lorain.  The Doctor affiliates with the 
Democratic party, and has served in local offices in the vicinity.  He and his 
wife are members of the Methodist Church.