BIO: Benjamin Franklin MYERS, M.D., Chambersburg, 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 139
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MYERS, M. D.

  Dr. B. F. Myers was born in 1868 at Duffield, this county, the son of Rev. 
Noah B. Myers and Mary Virginia (Yaukey) Myers.

  He received his preliminary education in the public schools of the county, 
then entered the Cumberland Valley State Normal School from which institution he 
was graduated in 1887.

  Following his graduation, he taught school in Guilford Township, taking 
special scientific courses between terms, at Danville College and Valparaiso 
University, Indiana; and a course in medicine in Kentucky School of Medicine, 
Louisville, Ky.

  He then entered Baltimore Medical College and was graduated M. D. from this 
institution in 1892.

  Dr. Myers began the practice of medicine at Oakville, Cumberland County, Pa., 
in 1892 and in 1895 he removed to Shippensburg where he was in the drug business 
in connection with the practice of medicine until 1900.  He then took post 
graduate work at Post Graduate School of Medicine, New York, when he came to 
Chambersburg and since this time has been in practice here.

  Dr. Myers has been a member of the Medical Society since 1903 and was 
President in 1926, and he is also a member of the Hospital Staff.  He was for 
some years the physician to the County Jail.  He married Sophia Greenewalt of 
Chambersburg in 1892.