BIO: Dr. Richard BROWNSON, Mercersburg, 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 236
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DR. RICHARD BROWNSON

  Dr. Brownson was a nephew of Dr. Robert Brownson, who was a Deputy Surveyor of 
Hospitals for the Southern Army, 1781 to 1783, and later became Governor of 
Georgia.

  Dr. Richard Brownson came to Peters Township, this county, before the 
Revolutionary War and practiced medicine here until his death in 1790.  He was a 
surgeon in the war July, 1777, to May, 1778, with the Sixth Battalion of 
Cumberland County Associators, commanded by Colonel Samuel Culbertson.

  Dr. Brownson's wife was Mary McDowell, born 1743, died 1833.