BIO: George Hemminger, 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 XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

379   BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  GEORGE HEMMINGER, M. D., physician and surgeon, Carlisle, is a native 
of Cumberland County, Penn., born on his father's farm two and one-half 
miles west of Carlisle, September 8, 1840.  His parents were John and 
Eliza (Heagy) Hemminger, the latter a daughter of John and Eliza Heagy.  
John Hemminger was also the name of the grandfather of the Doctor, and 
for his history, with that of his son John and family, the reader is 
referred to the sketch of Jacob Hemminger.  Our subject grew up on the 
farm, and received the rudiments of an education in the neighborhood 
schools.  In 1861 he entered Pennsylvania College as a freshman, and 
one year later passed examination for the sophomore class.  In August, 
1862, he, in company with seven of his classmates, went to Harrisburg, 
where, on the 16th of that month, they enlisted in Company B, One 
Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.  George was 
assigned to the Middle Department with duty at the Relay House, 
Maryland, where he remained until June 16, 1863.  He was in the Second 
Brigade, Third Division and Corps (in June), escorting stores to 
Washington, D. C.  From the 1st to the 5th of July he was at Wapping 
Heights, Va.; July 23, he was at Kelly's Ford; November 7, at Brandy 
Station; November 8, at Mine Run; from November 26 to December 2, at 
Locust Grove.  In March, 1864, he was in the Sixth Corps, same brigade 
and division; May 5 and 7 he was at the battle of the Wilderness; at 
Spottsylvania, from the 12th to the 19th of May; Cold Harbor, 1st to 3d 
of June; at the Trenches, Bermuda Hundred, June 17; destruction of the 
Weldon Railroad June 22, 23; Monocacy, Md., July 9; February 17, 1865, 
in prison at Danville; next to Libby prison, Richmond, until March 25, 
when paroled and returned to the regiment April 10.  He then marched to 
Danville, and thence with the army of Gen. Sherman to Washington, D. 
C., where he was in the grand review June 8, 1865.  Returning to 
Carlisle, he entered Dickinson College, where he pursued his studies 
one year; then read medicine under Dr. J. J. Gitzer; later he passed 
one term in the medical department of the University at Ann Arbor, 
Mich., and entered the College of Medicine at Detroit, Mich., from 
which institution he was graduated in 1869.  After his graduation he 
located at Newville, and there practiced his profession six years.  
From there he went to the city of Baltimore, Md., and formed a 
partnership with his old preceptor, Dr. J. J. Gitzer, with whom he 
remained until the fall of 1875, when he returned to Carlisle, and has 
here since been actively engaged in the practice of medicine.  February 
11, 1871, the Doctor married Miss Annie Powell, a native of Maryland, a 
daughter of Col. Samuel R. and Mary A. (Kelly) Powell, of Baltimore.  
To Dr. Hemminger and wife one son, George R., was born at Newville, 
Cumberland Co., Penn., April 25, 1872.  Dr. Hemminger stands high as a 
physician and a citizen.  He was a member of the Cumberland County 
Medical Society.  He is a member of the A. F. & A. M.