BIO: Samuel Gettys LANE, M.D., Chambersburg, 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 74-75 
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SAMUEL GETTYS LANE, M.D.

1826 – 1889

Samuel Gettys Lane was born "on the Diamond" in Chambersburg in 1826, a son of 
Dr. N. B. and Eliza (Hetich) Lane.  He was educated in the schools of the town 
and read medicine with his father and was graduated M.D. 1849 from the 
University of Pennsylvania.  He began the practice of medicine with an uncle, 
Dr. Andrew Hetich, at Bucyrus, Ohio, but upon the death of his father in 1853 he 
came to Chambersburg and took up his practice.

In the beginning of the Civil War Governor Curtin made him Surgeon of the Fifth 
Pennsylvania Reserves and he served throughout the War, subsequently becoming 
Assistant Surgeon General of Pennsylvania and being made brevet Lieutenant 
Colonel by Act of Congress.  Dr. Lane died in 1889 in Chambersburg.

He was a Charter Member of the Medical Society in 1869, was President of the 
Society in 1874 and its Secretary in 1875 and 1876.  He was a physician of 
marked ability, a close student and a forceful writer.  He accumulated during 
his lifetime an extensive library, which he bequeathed to the Medical Society of 
Franklin County, and it now occupies a room in the Court House.

In 1860 Dr. Lane married Emily B. McLenegan of Lancaster, Pa.  She died in 1885.

Dr. Lane was by heredity a Whig, and by choice a Republican and was by faith a 
Lutheran.