BIO: Dr. Adam Kuhn LEBERKNIGHT, Orrstown, 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 341
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DR. ADAM KUHN LEBERKNIGHT
1850-1906

  A. K. Leberknight was born in 1850 in Hamilton Township, a son of Daniel and 
Susan (Kuhn-Reymer) Leberknight.  He was educated in the common schools and 
studied medicine with his brother, F. B. Leberknight in Newburg, Cumberland 
County.  He then attended lectures in 1878 at Jefferson Medical College and 
after spending one year in practice with his brother in Newburg, he located in 
Orrstown in 1880, where he enjoyed a lucrative practice during his lifetime.  He 
was for a time a member of the Medical Society.

  Dr. Leberknight married first, Elizabeth Easton and second, Alice R. Keefer.