BIO: David Lamont McDONALD, M.D., Concord, 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 351
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DAVID LAMONT McDONALD, M. D.
1841-1890 (?)


  D. L. McDonald was born in 1841 in Juniata County, the son of James S. and 
Mary Ann (Enslow) McDonald.  He served fourteen months enlistment in the Civil 
War and taught school for several terms before beginning, in 1864, the study of 
medicine with Dr. S. B. Crawford at McCoysville, Juniata County.  He attended 
one course of lectures in New York City in 1865 and then practiced medicine from 
1866 to 1870 at McCoysville with his preceptor.  In 1871 he located at Concord 
and was in practice there for sixteen years.  During this time, in 1881, he 
attended lectures and was graduated M. D. from Columbus Medical College, 
Columbus, Ohio.

  Dr. McDonald located in Greencastle in 1885 and practiced medicine at this 
place until the time of his death about 1890 (?).

  He married in 1871, Anna M. Robinson of Concord.