BIO: William P. NOBLE, M.D., Upton, 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 312-313
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WILLIAM P. NOBLE, M. D.
1845-1923

  Wm. P. Noble was born in 1845 in Fannettsburg, this county, the son of William 
and Elizabeth (Atkins) Noble.  He received his education at the Tuscarora 
Academy.  In 1862 he enlisted in the Army and was discharged in 1863.  He began 
the study of medicine with Dr. A. H. Senseny in Chambersburg, and after the 
usual course was graduated M. D. in 1869 from Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, Pa.

  Dr. Noble located at once in Greencastle, Pa., and practiced medicine in this 
town until 1872 when he removed to Upton where he remained in active successful 
practice until 1922, when he retired from active work and removed to Greencastle 
where he died about one year later.  Dr. Noble was a member of the Medical 
Society in 1871.  He married in 1870, Alice J. Flemming.