BIO: James Burns AMBERSON, Jr., PH. B., M.D., Waynesboro, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 189
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JAMES BURNS AMBERSON, JR., PH. B., M. D.

  J. B. Amberson, Jr., was born June 8, 1890, in Waynesboro, Pa., a son of Dr. 
James Burns and Mary Katherine (Good) Amberson.  He was educated in the public 
schools of Waynesboro, graduating from the High School in 1909.

  He entered Lafayette College and received his Ph. B. in 1913 and after the 
usual course in the Medical Department, Johns Hopkins University he was 
graduated M. D., 1917.

  From 1917 to 1926 Dr. Amberson served as Assistant and Associate Physician in 
Loomis Sanatorium for the treatment of Tuberculosis, Loomis, N. Y.  In the 
latter year he was appointed Consulting Physician in Tuberculosis for Department 
of Health, City of Detroit and Clinical Director of Tuberculosis work in the 
Herman Kieffer Hospital and in the Wm. H. Maybury Sanatorium, Detroit, Michigan.  
Since 1927 he has been Physician in Chief, of Loomis Sanatorium, Loomis, N. Y.  
He also is Visiting Physician of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University, College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City.

  Dr. Amberson is a member of his County and New York State Medical Societies 
and the American Medical Association, The National Tuberculosis Association and 
the American Climatological and Clinical Association and a member of the 
Editorial Staff of American Review of Tuberculosis.

  Dr. Amberson married, 1919, Rebecca Tillman Steen of Columbus, Miss., and 
there are two children, James Burns, III, and Mary Priscilla.