BIO: David SHOPE, 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 357.
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  SHOPE, DAVID, M.D., son of Jacob Shope and _____ Hart, was born July 
25, 1808, in Lower Paxton township, Dauphin county, Pa.  His 
grandfather, Andrew Schopp (or Shope), emigrated from the Palatinate, 
Germany, to America, arriving at Philadelphia October 22, 1754, on the 
ship "Halifax" from Rotterdam.  He settled in then Lancaster county, 
married, and was in service during the French and Indian war, 
afterwards permanently locating in what is now Lower Paxton township, 
Dauphin county, Pa., on a tract of land in possession of his great-
grandson.  He had sons Bernhard, Jacob, and Adam.  The first married, 
removed to Centre county, Pa., where his descendants now reside.  Jacob 
and Adam divided the farm, the former of whom subsequently disposed of 
his, the latter dying on the old homestead at the age of ninety-one 
years.  Jacob Shope, who lived to the age of eighty-seven, married a 
Miss Hart, and they had issue:  Abraham, Jacob, Bernhard, David, 
Barbara, Mary, Elizabeth, and Catharine.  David, the subject of our 
sketch, worked on his father's farm until the age of sixteen, receiving 
such educational advantages as the country schools then afforded.  He 
was afterwards sent to a select school in Cumberland county, and also 
that taught by Mr. Cummings at Brown's school house on the Jonestown 
road.  He taught school several times, and at the age of nineteen began 
the study of medicine with Dr. Markley, of Manheim, Lancaster county, 
Pa., and after the latter's death with his successor, Dr. Veasy.  In 
October, 1832, he located in Hummelstown, where he continued in the 
successful practice of his profession until his decease, which occurred 
December 2, 1842, at the age of thirty-four years, and is buried in the 
Hummelstown cemetery.  Few practitioners stood higher in the confidence 
and esteem of the community in which he lived than Dr. David Shope.  He 
never married.