BIO: JOHN BRUCE McCREARY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 341-342
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    JOHN BRUCE McCREARY, M. D., of Shippensburg, Pa., a good representative of
  the medical fraternity at Shippensburg, was born at Gettysburg, Pa., March
  25, 1870. David McCreary, his grandfather, was born in 1802, in Adams county,
  in the vicinity of Gettysburg, son of William McCreary, a native of Scotland.
    
    John F. McCreary, his father, was born in Gettysburg, in 1840. He died in
  1891. He was a scholarly gentleman, and for some years a member of the
  faculty of the Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, later becoming principal
  of the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, a position he held until 1891,
  when he was succeeded by Dr. G. M. D. Eckels. He married Helen Deardorff, who
  was born in 1842, in Adams county, near Deardorff Mills, daughter of George
  and Margaret (Longnecker) Deardorff, of German descent and birth, who were
  Dunkards in religion. The father of Margaret (Longnecker) Deardorff was
  Daniel Longnecker, son of Christopher
    
    342	CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
  Longnecker, bishop of Conestoga Church in 1724. Mrs. McCreary died in 1890.
  To John F. McCreary and his wife were born nine children: Gertrude, a teacher
  at Bethlehem; Helen D. Stokes, Moorestown, N. J.; Carrie A., of Shippensburg;
  John Bruce; Margaret E., who married John Harper, of Colorado; Alice,
  deceased; Jean Claude, a teacher in the public schools; Roy Donald, deceased;
  and W. Harold.
    
    Dr. John B. McCreary received his primary education at Shippensburg. He
  then read medicine with Dr. James B. Marshall, and was graduated from the
  University of Maryland in 1892.
    
    In 1894, Dr. McCreary married Miss Mary W. Harper, daughter of William and
  Nancy (McLane) Harper, of Shippensburg. Mrs. McCreary was educated at Wilson
  College, Chambersburg, and later studied for a year abroad. One daughter,
  Nancy Harper, has been born to Dr. and Mrs. McCreary. The Doctor is a member
  of the Cumberland County Medical Society, of which he is vice-president, and
  he is also a member of the State Medical Association, and the American
  Medical Association.