BIO: Charles A. HARTZELL, M.D., 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 254
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CHARLES A. HARTZELL, M. D.

  C. A. Hartzell was born in 1864 at Fayetteville, the son of Dr. Ezekiel and 
Mary (Bixler) Hartzell.  He received his education in the common schools and at 
the Chambersburg Academy.  He then studied medicine with his father and after 
attending the usual course of lectures was graduated M. D. in 1887 from the 
University of Pennsylvania.

  Dr. Hartzell located at once in Fayetteville, practicing in partnership with 
his father and succeeding to the practice at the latter's death in 1894.  Dr. 
Hartzell owns and lives in the Hartzell homestead and has practiced continuously 
since graduation at the same place.

  Dr. Hartzell was for a time a member of the Medical Society.  He is a 
Republican in politics and a member of the Lutheran Church.  He married in 1889, 
Ida Brindle, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Keller) Brindle.