BIO: Joseph FRANTZ, M.D., Waynesboro, 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 190
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JOSEPH FRANTZ, M. D.

  Joseph Frantz was born in 1854 in Waynesboro, Pa., the son of Benjamin and 
Mary A. (Ryder) Frantz.  He studied medicine with his father and was graduated 
M. D. in 1878 from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.  Dr. Frantz 
practiced medicine in Harrisburg, Pa., from graduation to 1881, when he located 
in Waynesboro, where he since has been in practice.  Dr. Frantz was a member of 
the Dauphin County Medical Society transferring his membership to Franklin 
County Society in 1883 and was president of the Society in 1888, and resigned 
his membership in society in 1905.

  He is a member of the Reformed Mennonite Church and for some years has held 
the office of Elder.  Dr. Frantz married first Gertrude Smith and second, June 
7, 1908, Alice Immel Stouffer.  In 1880, while in practice in Harrisburg Dr. 
Frantz was one of the founders, the first meeting being held in his office, of 
the Harrisburg Pathologic Society, afterwards changed and chartered as the 
Harrisburg Academy of Medicine.