BIO: John Roy MINEHART, M.D., Orrstown, 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 345
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JOHN ROY MINEHART, M. D.

  John Roy Minehart was born in Lurgan Township November 1, 1878.  He is the son 
of the late Jacob Sherman Minehart and Katherine Wise Minehart.

  He received his early education in the rural schools of Franklin County and 
later attended the Chambersburg Academy.  In 1898 he entered the Pharmacy 
Department of the Medico-Chirurgical College receiving his Ph. G. degree in 
1900.  That same year he entered the Medical Department of that institution and 
in 1903 received his degree of Doctor of Medicine.

  In 1904 Dr. Minehart was appointed surgeon in the Imperial Ottoman Navy and 
served with the crew that delivered the cruiser Medjidia to the Turkish 
government.

  He was Associate Professor of Materia Medica from 1905 to 1907 at Medico 
Chirurgical College.  In 1907 he was appointed dean of the Pharmacy Department 
of Temple University and Professor of Pharmacognosy.

  He served in the City Council of Philadelphia under the Blankenburg 
administration.  He was medical examiner on the Draft Board during the World 
War, and at present is United States examiner for the Civil Service Board at 
Philadelphia.

  In 1906 Dr. Minehart married Katharine Violet Cosgrove of New York City.  They 
have three children, Thomas Z. Minehart, 2nd, John Roy, Jr., and Katherine 
Violet Minehart.

  He is an elder in the Wakefield Presbyterian Church of Germantown, 
Philadelphia.