BIO: Benjamin Rush LITTLE, Mercersburg, Franklin County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Denise Phillips Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/franklin/ _______________________________________________ Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.; Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 238 _______________________________________________ BENJAMIN RUSH LITTLE 1829-1857 Benjamin Rush Little, born in Mercersburg, March 8, 1829, the youngest child of Dr. Peter W. and Mary S. (Parker) Little, was graduated from Marshall College, Mercersburg, in 1847 and became a physician and for a few years practiced medicine in Mercersburg. He married in 1856, Anna Mary Schley, daughter of David and Georgiana (Clem) Schley of Frederick, Md., B. 1833, D. 1860. Dr. B. Rush Little died at Keokuk, Iowa, December 7, 1857.