BIO: Joseph Pomeroy MACLAY, M.D., Chambersburg, 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 155 _______________________________________________ JOSEPH POMEROY MACLAY, M. D. J. P. Maclay was born in 1883, in Greenvillage, Franklin County, a son of Dr. David and Mary (Pomeroy) Maclay. He attended the common schools and the Chambersburg Academy, and then for three years, 1901 to 1904, was a student at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. He then entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and for two years attended this school. He received his degree M. D., in 1908, from Georgetown University, School of Medicine after two years spent in this institution. After graduation he was for twenty-six months in the Emergency Hospital and the Columbia Hospital, Washington, D. C. With this preparation he began the practice of medicine in Chambersburg, where he has since continued. Dr. Maclay is a member of the Medical Society and was the President in 1920. He is a member of the Chambersburg Hospital Staff and is the present physician to the Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphan Industrial School, at Scotland, Pa., and served as Coroner of the county. Dr. Maclay enlisted as First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps, U. S. A., June 18, 1918, and was discharged July 9, 1919. He was attached to the 6th Army Corps A. E. F., and was surgeon of a balloon group. He served in France and Germany for eleven and one-half months. Dr. Maclay is a member of the Presbyterian Church and an ardent Republican, having been for eight years Chairman of the Republican County Committee. He married in 1822 (sic) Louetta Shanabrook, R. N., of York, Pa.