BIO: Dr. George CLINGAN, 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 64 
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DR. GEORGE CLINGAN

Dr. Clingan was a practitioner of medicine in Chambersburg shortly after the 
close of the War of the Revolution.  He was one of the signers of the petition 
to the Legislature in 1784 for the organization of Franklin County, and was 
appointed the first Treasurer of the new County, serving from 1785 to 1790.  He 
is represented as a man of fine ability and character, who stood well in the 
estimation of the public.  He made little effort to acquire a medical practice 
and consequently his success as a physician was limited.  He was in Chambersburg 
as late as 1798, but no later record is available.