BIO: Jacob H. Deardorff, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

408  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  JACOB H. DEARDORFF, physician, Mechanicsburg, was born on his 
father's farm in Washington Township, York Co., Penn., February 4, 
1846; son of Joseph F. and Lovinia (Hoover) Deardorff; the former, a 
farmer, born in Adams County; the latter a native of York County, 
Penn.; they were members of the Lutheran Church.  Of their eight 
children (five sons and three daughters) Jacob H. is the youngest.  He 
attended school during winter and worked on his father's farm in summer 
until he was eighteen, when he began teaching and at the same time 
attending school.  He graduated from Fairbanks Business College and the 
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia.  March 9, 1876, he located 
in Middletown, Dauphin Co., Penn., and after two years and a half he 
came to Mechanicsburg, where he has practiced medicine ever since.  The 
Doctor was united in marriage, December 26, 1867, with Miss Mary A. 
Stouffer, born near Andersontown, York Co., Penn., daughter of 
Washington and Sarah (Kline) Stouffer.  The Doctor and wife have three 
children:  Clarence M., born in York County, Penn.; Raymond P., born in 
Lisburn, this county; Gertrude F., born in Slatington, Lehigh Co., 
Penn.  Dr. Deardorff is a member of the A. O. of M., Mechanicsburg.  He 
has a first-class practice, and stands high in the estimation and 
confidence of all who know him.  His success as a physician since he 
located in Mechanicsburg, has been most satisfactory to himself and his 
patients.  The Doctor's great-grandfather and grandmother came from 
Germany to Pennsylvania.  His father is still living at the advanced 
age of eighty-one and resides near East Berlin, Adams Co., Penn.