BIO: Dr. Francis A. OELLIG, 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 313
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DR. FRANCIS A. OELLIG

  Francis A. Oellig was born in Waynesboro, the son of Dr. John and Catherine 
(Nicodemus) Oellig.  He received his preliminary education in the schools of 
Waynesboro and studied medicine with his father, and began the practice of 
medicine at Funkstown now Mont Alto, sometime prior to 1846.

  In 1846-47 he attended one course of lectures at the University of Maryland 
and later in 1847 located at Martinsburg, Pa., where he was in practice for two 
years.  In 1849 he removed to near Upton, on a farm, where he was in continuous 
practice until his death in 1885.

  He married Margaretta Byers.  Dr. John B. Oellig was a son.