BIO: John Henry FAGER, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 356.
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  FAGER, JOHN HENRY, M.D., was born March 31, 1806, at Harrisburg, Pa.; 
died August 18, 1872, at Harrisburg, Pa., and there buried.  He 
received careful training and a good education; read medicine with Dr. 
Martin Luther, one of the more prominent of the early physicians at 
Harrisburg, and attended medical lectures at the University of 
Pennsylvania.  In 1829 he began the practice of his profession at 
Harrisburg, which he continued until his death, a period of forty-three 
years.  In 1840 his attention being called to homoeopathy, the Doctor 
commenced the study of that theory and afterwards adopted it in his 
practice.  He was quite a successful physician, and enjoyed the 
confidence of the community.  Apart from his professional life Dr. 
Fager was a valued citizen.  For thirty-three years he was a member of 
the school board, during most of which period he was secretary or 
treasurer; for several terms a member of the borough council and for 
fifty years an active worker in the Sunday-school of the First Lutheran 
church.  Dr. Fager was twice married.  He married Eliza Jones, born 
1810; died October 17, 1834; daughter of James and Mary Jones, and had 
Albert J., who served as first lieutenant of company B, One Hundred and 
Twenty-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, and now an alderman 
of the city of Harrisburg.  He married, secondly, March 29, 1836, Mary 
Hayes Buffington, born November 3, 1816, in Harrisburg, Pa., and died 
there December 4, 1893.  They had a large family.