BIO: Dr. William HUMPHREYS, St. Thomas, 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 320
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DR. WILLIAM HUMPHREYS

  There is no known record of Dr. Humphreys' early history, further than 
tradition tells that he had been a student at West Point and also at Nassau 
Hall, now Princeton and that he was a man of culture.

  He came to St. Thomas about 1830 and practiced medicine in that vicinity until 
1840 in which year he died.

  On March 7, 1838, Dr. Humphreys married Miss Mary Maxwell McDowell, born 1808, 
died 1874, a daughter of Thomas and Mary C. (Davison) McDowell.  Dr. Humphreys 
died without issue and his widow in 1842 married Rev. Alexander K. Nelson and 
became the mother of Thomas McDowell Nelson, late of Chambersburg, Pa.