BIO: Royal Howard McCUTCHEON, A.M., M.D., Mont Alto, 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 277
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ROYAL HOWARD McCUTCHEON, A. M., M. D.

  R. H. McCutcheon was born March 15, 1891, at Franklin, Virginia, a son of Rev. 
J. L. and Lenore (Philips) McCutcheon.  He received his preliminary education at 
the Morgantown, W. Va., High School and at Wake Forest, N. C., College, taking 
his A. B. in 1911 and his A. M. in 1912.  He then studied medicine and was 
graduated M. D. in 1915 from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.  
After spending one year in private practice at Newport News, Virginia, Dr. 
McCutcheon in March, 1917, entered the U. S. Army Medical Corps with the rank of 
First Lieutenant and remained in this service until July, 1919.  At the time of 
his discharge in 1919 he held the rank of Captain in the U. S. Army Medical 
Corps.  During October, 1919, he was appointed to a position in the U. S. 
Veterans Bureau and served in this capacity until October, 1921, when he 
received the appointment as Medical Director of the Pennsylvania State 
Sanatorium for Tuberculosis at Mont Alto, Pa., which position he has filled 
continuously to the present time.

  Dr. McCutcheon is a member of the Medical Society of Franklin County and is 
now (1928) President of the Society.  He also holds membership in the National 
Tuberculosis Association.  He is a Republican in politics and by faith a 
Baptist.  September 7, 1917, he married Vida Muriel Perkins.