BIO: George Albert BLAIR, M.D., Chambersburg, 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, Pages 102 and 261
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Page 102 (from the Chambersburg, PA section)

GEORGE ALBERT BLAIR, M. D.

1856 - 1916

  Dr. Blair was born 1856 at Blairs Mills, Huntingdon County.  He studied 
medicine and was graduated M. D., 1880, from the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, Baltimore, Md.

  Dr. Blair practiced his profession for a short while at Scotland, Pa., and 
while there was married to a Miss Dice of that village.  He then removed to the 
Middle West until about 1900, when he came to Chicago, and took a post-graduate 
course in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, then went to Europe and 
studied in Vienna, Austria.  Returning he located in the offices of the late Dr. 
R. W. Ramsey, and practiced his specialty here until 1915, when he removed to 
Philadelphia, Pa.  He died there in 1916, aged about sixty years.

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Page 261 (from the Scotland, PA section)

GEORGE ALBERT BLAIR, M. D.
1856-1916

  George A. Blair began the practice of medicine in Scotland, Pa., in 1880 and remained here about two years.  (See Chambersburg.)