BIO: George HEMMINGER, M.D., Cumberland County, PA
  
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 120-121
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      GEORGE HEMMINGER, M.D., a prominent physician and surgeon at Carlisle, 
    Pa., comes of sturdy old German stock and of a family that is honorably 
    known in a number of the States of the Union.
      John Hemminger, his grandfather, emigrated from Germany and settled in 
    Lancaster county, Pa., when a young man, and there married Barbara 
    Rhemm. To them were born three sons, John, Jacob and Samuel, and one 
    daughter, Nancy, who married George Stubbs, of Cumberland county, in 1800.
      John Hemminger, the eldest son of John Hemminger, Sr., married Eliza 
    Heagy, and they settled on the old farm two and a half miles west of 
    Carlisle, where the following named children were born to them: Jane A., 
    who became the wife of Lafayette Peffer, of Dickinson township, and had 
    children; John, Jr., who became a farmer near Waynesboro, Franklin 
    county; Sarah; Samuel, deceased; Catherine, who became the wife of J. E. 
    B. Graham and removed to the vicinity of Lincoln, Neb., (they have a 
    family); William, who died in 1873, leaving a widow; Joseph, who died in 
    1883, leaving a widow; Mary, who married William McCullough, of near 
    Shippensburg, Cumberland county (they have a family); Hettie, who became 
    the wife of Joseph Beetem, of Carlisle, and had a family; Jacob, of 
    Carlisle; Dr. George; and Susannah.
      George Hemminger was born Sept. 8, 1840, on his father's farm near 
    Carlisle, and received his primary education in the district schools. In 
    1861 he entered Pennsylvania College, in the Freshman class, and one 
    year later successfully passed the examination for
  
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    the Sophomore year, but the outbreak and continuance of the Civil war 
    changed his plans at that time. In August, 1862, in company with seven 
    of his classmates, he went to Harrisburg, and on the 16th his name was 
    enrolled as a member of Company B, 138th P. V. I. With his command he 
    was assigned to duty at the Relay House, where he remained until June 
    16, 1863. As a member of the 2d Brigade, 3d Division, he was engaged 
    with the force transporting stores to Washington, D. C. From the 1st to 
    the 5th of July he was at Wapping Heights, Va.; July 23 was at Kelly's 
    Ford; Nov. 7 at Brandy Station; Nov. 8 at Mine Run; from Nov. 26 to Dec. 
    2 at Locust Grove. In March, 1864, he was assigned to the 6th Corps, and 
    from May 5th to 7th took part in the battle of the Wilderness; was at 
    Spottsylvania from the 12th to the 19th; at Cold Harbor June 1st to 3d; 
    in the trenches at Bermuda Hundred, June 17; destruction of the Weldon 
    railroad, June 22-23; at Monocacy, Md., July 9; from Feb. 17, 1865, 
    until March 25th, when he was paroled, he was a prisoner of war, at 
    Danville and at Libby, in Richmond. On April 10, 1865, the young soldier 
    returned to his regiment, marching with it to Danville, where he had 
    suffered imprisonment, and then proudly with Gen. Sherman's victorious 
    army to attend the Grand Review at Washington, June 8, 1865.
      Having gallantly and faithfully served his country, the young student 
    returned to his books, entering Dickinson College, at Carlisle, for a 
    year, and then beginning the study of medicine under Dr. J. J. Zitzer; 
    later he spent one term at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. He 
    then entered the College of Medicine at Detroit and was there graduated 
    in 1869. For the succeeding six years he practiced his profession at 
    Newville, removing thence to Baltimore, Md., where he formed a 
    partnership with his old preceptor, Dr. J. J. Zitzer, with whom he 
    remained until the fall of 1875, when he returned to Carlisle. Here Dr. 
    Hemminger has been actively engaged in practice ever since, his 
    clientele being so large at the present time that it is almost 
    burdensome. Both as a physician and a citizen he is held in the highest 
    esteem.
      Dr. Hemminger was married (first) Feb. 11, 1871, to Annie Powell, a 
    native of Maryland, daughter of Col. Samuel R. and Mary A. (Kelly) 
    Powell, of Baltimore. One son, George R., was born to this union April 
    25, 1872, was graduated at St. Stephen's Institute, and is now located 
    at Manchester, N. H., where he is superintendent of the United Gas 
    Improvement Co., whose main offices are in Philadelphia, at the corner 
    of Broad and Arch streets.
      Dr. Hemminger married for his second wife Miss Nina Oyster, daughter of 
    D. K. and Catherine (Drabaugh) Oyster, of Missouri, a lady of charming 
    manners and a true Southern type. Dr. Hemminger is a member of the 
    Lutheran Church. He is connected with the various medical organizations 
    and is prominent fraternally in the Masonic bodies, belonging to St. 
    John's Commandery, No. 361, Knights Templar, of Carlisle.