BIO: George Royer KAUFFMAN, M.D., Kauffman, 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 306-307
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GEORGE ROYER KAUFFMAN, M. D.
1841-1897

  George R. Kauffman was born in 1841 at Kauffman, Pa., the son of Abraham and 
Catherine (Royer) Kauffman.  He received his education at the Chambersburg 
Academy and then began the study of medicine with Dr. McGill in Hagerstown, Md., 
and later was a student with Drs. Richards and Montgomery in Chambersburg.  He 
then attended one course of lectures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 
after which he was for two years at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New 
York City, graduating M. D. in 1867 from this institution.

  He at once located at Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, but some months later 
came to his home at Kauffman where he established a large practice and where he 
continued in active work until his death in 1897.  On July 6, 1863, he was taken 
prisoner at Hagerstown by the Confederates on their retreat after the battle of 
Gettysburg and carried South.  He was confined in Libby, Castle Thunder and 
Salisbury, N. C., until April, 1865.

 Dr. Kauffman was a member of the Lutheran Church and a Republican in politics.  
He married in 1867, Martha E. Kiesecker.