BIO: John Byers OELLIG, 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 313
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JOHN BYERS OELLIG, M. D.
1849-1927

  John B. Oellig was born June 10, 1849, in Martinsburg, Pa., the son of Dr. 
Francis A. and Margaretta (Byers) Oellig.  He received his education in the 
common schools and select schools of his time and then studied medicine with his 
father.  In 1874 he attended one course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia.  He then matriculated at the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., and was graduated M. D. in 1876 from this institution.

  Dr. Oellig located at once at Millerstown, Pa., where he practiced medicine 
for ten years and then removed to the homestead near Upton and practiced 
medicine for some years and then retired from practice, making his home in 
Greencastle, Pa.  He died January 17, 1927.

  He married in 1886, Clemantine Long, now deceased.

  Dr. Oellig was a member of the Church of the Brethren.