BIO:  Horace Alleman, Dauphin County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 59

HORACE ALLEMAN, M. D., was born in Lancaster County, in 1824; is a son of John 
and Elizabeth (Mockert) Alleman, and is of German origin.  His father was born 
in Dauphin County, Penn., in 1793, and his mother in Lancaster County, Penn., in 
1797.  His father, when a young man, settled in Lancaster County, where he died 
in 1866; his wife having died one year previous.  The Alleman family was one of 
the early families of Dauphin County, and among the prominent people.  Dr. 
Alleman was educated at Emaus Institute in Dauphin County, and at Pennsylvania 
College at Gettysburg.  He began the study of medicine, in 1846, in the office 
of Dr. Nathaniel Watson, of Lancaster County, and afterward graduated at the 
Pennsylvania Medical College, Philadelphia.  In 1848 he began practice at 
Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, remained there some time, and then removed to 
Safe Harbor, Lancaster County, and in 1859 came to Hanover; here he has since 
remained.  He was married, in 1847, to Miss Rebecca B. Winnemore, a native of 
Lancaster County.  They have six children.  He is Republican, and he and wife 
are members of the Lutheran Church.  He is one of the leading physicians of York 
County.