BIO:  Edmund F. SHORB, 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 432-433

EDMUND F. SHORB, M.D., Littlestown, was born at that place November 21, 1825.  
When about fourteen years of age he became a student at Mount St. Mary’s 
College, and remained there three years.  He then commenced reading medicine in 
his father’s office, and at eighteen years of age began attending lectures at 
the University of Maryland, from which he graduated, his diploma as physician, 
being dated 1846.  He began and continued practice at Littlestown for twelve 
years, when he gave it up on account of failing health.  He was then engaged in 
the grain and produce business six years, when he sold out.  After three years’ 
rest he opened a hardware store and continued that business for eight years, 
when he again sold out, and after five years’ retirement in 1884, bought his 
present stand and opened a drug store, at the same time resuming the practice of 
medicine.  The Doctor was formerly a Whig, but since the days of Know-
nothingism, has acted with the Democratic party.  He was elected and served 
three years as auditor of Adams County, and has held various local offices, once 
as burgess of Littlestown.  The Doctor was married January 3, 1871, to Ellen B. 
Heath, a daughter of the late Judge Robert Heath, of Edenton, N.C.  Our subject 
and wife have had two children:  Mary G., now attending St. Joseph’s Academy at 
Emmittsburg, and Joseph Robert, who died in 1880.  The Doctor is probably, by 
residence, the oldest practicing physician in Adams County.