BIO: Dr. R. Melville FRENCH, Fayetteville, 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 252
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DR. R. MELVILLE FRENCH

  Dr. French was born in Otsego County, N. Y., and had attended lectures at 
Medical College in Philadelphia and Baltimore before coming to Fayetteville.  He 
practiced medicine in Fayetteville and vicinity for a number of years prior to 
his death about the year 1845.  His death was due to an accident.  The horse the 
doctor was either riding or driving ran away, throwing the doctor to the 
roadside with sufficient violence to cause his death.

  Dr. French was postmaster at Fayetteville from January 1837 to 1841 and was 
again appointed postmaster in 1845.  In 1846 his widow, Mary A. French, was 
appointed postmistress and served until 1855.  His wife was Mary Ann Peel of 
English extraction.