BIO: Henry X. BONEBRAKE, 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, Page 92 
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HENRY X. BONEBRAKE, M.D.

1843 – 1914

Dr. Bonebrake was born in 1843 in Washington Township, Franklin County, Pa., a 
son of Daniel and Margaret (Stoner) Bonebrake.  He was the sixth son in a family 
of eight children, four of whom became physicians, viz:  Melchor, Daniel W., 
Andrew S. and Henry X.

Dr. Bonebrake was educated at Mercersburg College and began reading medicine 
with Dr. John J. Oellig in Waynesboro, and completed his studies with Dr. James 
Brotherton, Jr., in the same town.  He was graduated M. D., 1865, from the 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City.  He located in practice for a 
time at Leitersburg, Md., and then removed to Funkstown, now Mont Alto, in 1869.  
He accepted the position of Superintendent of the Mont Alto Iron Works, filling 
this position in connection with the practice of medicine until 1889, when he 
removed to Chambersburg and was in practice here until the time of his death in 
1914.

Dr. Bonebrake was Coroner of the County 1890-93, a member of the Hospital Staff 
from its organization and an active member of the Medical Society and its 
President 1897.  He was physician to the County Home for a number of years and 
State Medical Inspector for Franklin County for some years.  He was a Republican 
in politics and a member of the Reformed Church.

He married, in 1862, Miss Agnes Fouke of Maryland.