BIO: William Culbertson LANE, M.D., Mercersburg, 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 240
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WILLIAM CULBERTSON LANE, M. D.
1825-1890

  W. C. Lane was a son of Dr. Nicholas B. and Eliza (Hetich) Lane and was born 
"On the Square" in Chambersburg in 1825.  He received a liberal education and 
then read medicine with his father in Chambersburg, graduating M. D. in 1851 
from the University of Pennsylvania.

  Dr. Lane located first at Greensburg, Pa., and after four years practice at 
this place, removed to Maidon, Ill.  In 1857 he returned to Franklin County and 
from 1857 to 1880 practiced medicine successively at Upper Strasburg, Roxbury, 
and Orrstown.  In 1880 he located at Mercersburg and practiced medicine in this 
town until his death in 1890.

  Dr. Lane was a surgeon during the Civil War, serving with the One Hundred and 
Twenty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers and later was surgeon to the Board of 
Enrollment for the Sixteenth District of Pennsylvania.

  He married in 1857, Miss C. A. Wakeman of Wheeling, West Virginia.

  Dr. Lane was a historian of note, particularly as regards the early history of 
the Cumberland Valley.  His writings appeared from time to time in the local 
newspapers and are of much value as contributions to local history, and if 
compiled would fill a considerable volume.