BIO: Edwin Davidson RANKIN, M.D., Greencastle, 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 219
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EDWIN DAVIDSON RANKIN, M. D.
1826-1869

  E. D. Rankin was born on January 16, 1826, in Antrim Township, a son of Andrew 
B. and Margaret (Ritchey) Rankin.

  He was Recording Secretary of the Medical Society in 1854 and a signer of the 
Call in 1868.  He practiced medicine in Greencastle for years until his death on 
April 27, 1869.

  Dr. Rankin is credited with being the first physician in Greencastle to use 
the hypodermic needle.  He was a graduate M. D. in 1851 from Jefferson Medical 
College and read medicine with Dr. Charles Michaels in Greencastle.

  In 1854 he married Adeline Reid.  He was a Republican and a United 
Presbyterian.