BIO: John Adams ROYER, 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 175
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JOHN ADAMS ROYER, M. D.
1840-1910

  John A. Royer was born in 1840 in Waynesboro, Pa., the son of Daniel W. and 
Maria (Adams) Royer.  He received his education in the common schools and at 
Mercerburg College, and then studied medicine with Dr. John J. Oellig, 
Waynesboro, and took his degree M. D. from the Bellevue Hospital Medical 
College, New York City.

  Dr. Royer practiced for a time in Waynesboro, then removed to Carey, Ohio, and 
later located in Toledo, Ohio, in which city he died in 1910.  He never was a 
member of the Medical Society.

  Dr. Royer was married to Miss Emma Bonebrake, a sister of Drs. A. S. and Henry 
X. Bonebrake.  In politics he was a Republican and fraternally was a Mason and 
an Odd Fellow.  Dr. Daniel F. Royer, Orange, California, is a brother.