BIO: William B. O'REAR, M.D., Waynesboro, 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 201
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WILLIAM B. O'REAR, M. D.

  W. B. O'Rear was born at Alexandria, Va., in 1874 and was graduated M. D. in 
1897 from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City.

  Dr. O'Rear registered in Franklin County in 1920 and since has practiced 
general medicine in Waynesboro, Pa.  He was a member of the Medical Society 
since 1921 and is a member of the Waynesboro Hospital Staff and Designate 
Examiner, U. S. V. B.

  Dr. O'Rear was commissioned Surgeon in the U. S. Medical Service on September 
1, 1898.  He saw service on the transports during the evacuation of American 
troops from Cuba and Porto Rico.  He was successively Surgeon on the Dixie, 
Kilpatrick and Sumner and Surgeon-in-Charge on the U. S. Army Transport Wright 
which conveyed officers for duty to the Philippines, via Suez Canal.  His next 
assignment was Sanitary Inspector of Bubonic District, City of Manila.  After 
the control of the plague he was transferred to the 20th U. S. Infantry and saw 
action with this regiment.  Later he was Surgeon with the 30th Infantry until 
his discharge at San Francisco, Calif., in February, 1902, as Captain and 
Assistant Surgeon, U. S. V.

  Dr. O'Rear was then in private practice in Savannah, Georgia, member of 
Savannah Hospital Staff until the beginning of the World War in 1917, when he 
was commissioned Captain Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. A., and saw service at Ft. 
Oglethorpe, Ga., and Deming, N. M., with Base Hospital, 34th Division, U. S. A., 
and was honorably discharged February 28, 1919.

  Dr. O'Rear married March 22, 1908, Mrs. Susie Langley, nee Volk, of Savannah, 
Ga.