BIO:  Raymond S. SEISS, M.D., 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 432

RAYMOND S. SEISS, M. D., Littlestown, was born between Emmittsburg and Graceham, 
Md., June 7, 1825, a son of John and Eliza (Schuyler) Seiss, the former a native 
of Graceham, and the latter of Lancaster City, Penn.  The Doctor was reared on a 
farm, and in the meantime attended the schools of the vicinity.  At the age of 
twenty-two he began a two years’ course of classical studies under the Rev. 
Edward Ronthaller, and continued some months; afterward, under the instruction 
of his brother, Rev. Joseph A. Seiss, D.D., LL.D., now of Philadelphia.  In 
August, 1848, he began reading medicine with Dr. William Zimmerman, of 
Creagerstown, Md., and afterward graduated at the University of Maryland in 
March, 1852.  He began practice in Graceham, where he married, March 12, 1852, 
Angelica S. Gernand.  In 1853 he moved to Union Mills, Carroll Co., Md., and 
March 23, 1855, settled at Littlestown, where he has practiced his profession, 
without intermission, ever since.  After the battle of Gettysburg he dressed the 
wounds of and attended many of the Union soldiers, a large number of whom were 
brought to his office for surgical treatment.  He was appointed, in 1863, and 
served as surgeon of the enrolling board for the Sixteenth Congressional 
District of Pennsylvania until March 18, 1864, when he resigned.  He was 
appointed a notary public, by Gov. Hartranft, April 21, 1874, and has retained 
the office ever since.  The Doctor was one of the prime movers in incorporating 
the borough of Littlestown, when it received its charter, and has been elected 
burgess ten different times, and is the present incumbent.  To the Doctor’s 
energetic administration is largely due most of the grading of the streets and 
other public improvements, as his maxim always was “for the benefit of all 
rather than a few.”  He was the nominee of the Republican party, in 1872, for 
the Legislature, but was defeated by 262 votes, the regular Democratic majority 
in the county being 600.  The Doctor is a member of the Adams County, the State 
and the National Medical Societies, and was president of the Adams County 
Medical Society for three terms.  He is a member of the Lutheran Church.  Dr. 
and Mrs. Seiss have had a family of six boys, four of whom are living:  Milton 
H., Franklin H., M.D., Elmer W. and John A.  The Doctor is actively engaged in 
practice, and also owns and operates a drug store; is very comfortably situated, 
financially; and enjoys the respect and confidence of all who know him, and of 
the entire community, in which he has lived for upward of thirty years.