BIO: Frank Newcomer EMMERT, 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 143
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FRANK NEWCOMER EMMERT, M. D.

  Dr. F. N. Emmert was born in 1872 at Darkesville, W. Va., the son of Elias and 
Ella (Burkhart) Emmert.  He received his preliminary education in the public 
schools of Hagerstown, Md., and at the Hagerstown Academy.  He then attended 
Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa.  Deciding to study medicine he took one 
year in medicine at the University of Virginia, Charlotteville, Va., and then 
entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, and was graduated 
M. D. in 1897 from this school.

  Dr. Emmert located in Hagerstown, Md., and was in general practice here 1898 
and 1899.  He then spent three years 1900 to 1902 in New York City as Assistant 
Surgeon in St. Bartholomew Hospital for the eye, and also served as Assistant to 
the Chair of Laryngology in Columbia University.  In 1903 he came to 
Chambersburg and has established an extensive practice in the treatment of 
diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

  He has been a member of the Medical Society since 1904 and was president in 
1912, and is a member of the Hospital Staff.  He has been Treasurer of the 
Medical Society since 1917.  Dr. Emmert was Vice-President of the Pennsylvania 
State Medical Society in 1922.  He is Laryngologist to Pennsylvania State 
Sanatorium for Tuberculosis, South Mountain, Pennsylvania.

  He married in 1898 Lillian DeF. Ashman of New York City.