BIO: Dr. Francis B. RAIFSNIDER, Greenvillage, 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 268-269
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DR. FRANCIS B. RAIFSNIDER

  F. B. Raifsnider was born in Snyder County and practiced medicine at 
Bloserville, Cumberland County, for a time after the close of the war.  In 1869 
he received a diploma from the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, 
"Electric System," and located shortly after at Greenvillage where he was in 
practice for seven or eight years, and then removed to Scotland and practiced 
until the time of his death about 1886.

  His wife's family name was Matthews.