BIO: Dr. William MAXWELL, Marion, 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 299
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DR. WILLIAM MAXWELL

  William Maxwell was a younger brother of Dr. Thomas Maxwell who died at 
Jackson Hall in 1873.  Their father was Major Hugh Maxwell who was born in 
Ireland and emigrated to America in early life, and in 1804 was living in 
Philadelphia and in 1828 lived in Lancaster and was editor of the Lancaster 
Journal.

  Dr. Maxwell was a man of some education and very probably was a graduate of 
one of the medical schools in Philadelphia.  He began the practice of medicine 
in Franklin County at Campbellstown, now St. Thomas, about 1845.  How long he 
remained at Campbellstown is not known, but while living here he married a Miss 
Stenger of the vicinity of Marion and moved to a farm owned by his wife's father 
about one mile southeast of Marion.  It is known that he was here in 1852, 
during the epidemic of cholera that occurred in that year.

  Dr. Maxwell practiced medicine in the neighborhood of Marion until 1875 when 
he sold the farm and removed to Champaign, Ill., and died there about ten years 
later.

  The Stengers, father and mother of Mrs. Maxwell, are buried in the White 
Churchyard near Marion.