BIO: Horace M. FRITZ, M.D., Quincy, 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 287
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HORACE M. FRITZ, M. D.
1854-1915

  Horace M. Fritz was born in 1854 in Berks County, Pa.  He attended the common  
schools and had a course in business at Pottstown.  He then attended the 
Kutztown State Normal School.  Deciding to study medicine, he entered the office 
of Dr. J. B. Rhoads, and after the usual course was graduated M. D. in 1879 from 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.

  Dr. Fritz located at once at Quincy, Pa., and was in active practice in this 
neighborhood until the time of his death in 1915.  He was admitted into the 
Medical Society in 1884 and was President in 1889.  He married in 1881 Clara A. 
Stouffer.

  Dr. Fritz was a member of the Lutheran Church and a progressive citizen.