BIO: James McCAMMON, 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, pages 353-354.
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  McCAMMON, JAMES, of Scotch ancestry, was a native of the county Down, 
Ireland, born about 1778.  He was educated at Edinburgh, and received 
his degree of doctor of medicine at the university of that city.  He 
subsequently served two years in the London Hospital, under that 
celebrated physician, Dr. Fordyce.  He came to the United States about 
1804, and located at Newville, in Cumberland county, where he had a 
very general and extensive practice.  In September, 1811, he removed to 
Middletown, where his brother John resided and was postmaster - at that 
period a preferable field to the Cumberland Valley - and was very 
successful.  He died at Middletown on the 7th of November, 1815, and 
was buried in the old Presbyterian graveyard on High street, in that 
borough.  He left a wife and three children, who afterwards removed to 
Zanesville, Ohio.  Dr. McCammon was a skillful surgeon, and ranked high 
in his profession.  Socially he was agreeable in conversation and of 
refined manners.