BIO:  Joseph A. 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

JOSEPH A. SHORB, M. D. (deceased), was a native of York County, Penn., and a 
physician of over thirty-five years’ practice in the borough of Littlestown.  He 
was a member of the Catholic Church, and took great interest in religious 
matters.  As a citizen and as a physician, no man probably was more widely or 
favorably known during his lifetime in Adams and surrounding counties.  He died 
in 1855.  He and his wife, Louisa J. Davis, a daughter of Dr. Ephraim Davis, of 
Littlestown, were the parents of thirteen children, only two of whom are now 
(1886) living.  Dr. Edmund F., of Littlestown, and Joseph A., Jr., of 
Hagerstown, Md.