BIO: Dr. John HUNTER, Strasburg, 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 333
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DR. JOHN HUNTER

  Dr. John Hunter was born in Ireland and came to America when a young man, 
locating in Upper Strasburg in 1820.  He had been a student at the University of 
Glasgow.

  Dr. Hunter was a successful practitioner of medicine at Upper Strasburg for 
fifty years.  His death occurred in 1870.  He was a member of the first Medical 
Society in 1825 and a Vice President in the reorganization in 1854.  Two sons of 
Dr. John Hunter became physicians, viz:  Dr. William A. Hunter and Dr. Robert I. 
Hunter.