BIO: J. Bruce McCREARY, M.D., Shippensburg, 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 388
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J. BRUCE McCREARY, M. D.

  J. B. McCreary was born in 1870 in Gettysburg, Pa.  He was educated at 
Shippensburg State Normal School, studied medicine with Dr. James B. Marshal in 
Shippensburg and was graduated M. D., 1892, from the University of Maryland, 
Baltimore.  He located at once in Shippensburg and remained here in active 
practice until 1917, when he entered the World War as 1st Lieutenant in the 
Medical Corps, serving throughout the war and was honorably discharged with the 
rank of Major.  Shortly after his discharge from the army, Dr. McCreary was 
appointed to a position with the Pennsylvania Health Department and has 
continued in this work.  At present Dr. McCreary is Deputy Secretary of Health 
of Pennsylvania.

  Dr. McCreary was for a time in 1917 affiliated with the Medical Society of 
Franklin County.  He married Miss Mary Harper of Shippensburg, Pa.