BIO: Anna L. Burkhart RYDER, M.D., Chambersburg, 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 113
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ANNA L. BURKHART RYDER, M. D.

  Anna L. Burkhart was born 1863 in Chambersburg a daughter of Christian 
Burkhart, who for years was a successful business man in Chambersburg.

  She was educated in the schools of her native town and then studied medicine 
taking her degree M. D., in 1893, from the Hahneman Medical College, Chicago, 
Ill.  Dr. Burkhart located at once in Milwaukee, Wis., and remained there one 
year.  She then returned to Chambersburg and for several years was engaged in 
business with her father.  In 1899 Dr. Burkhart had a Post Graduate Course at 
the Polyclinic Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., and then began the practice of 
medicine in Chambersburg and has so continued to the present.

  Dr. Burkhart married Daniel Ryder, D. V. S., who for a number of years was a 
successful veterinary surgeon in Chambersburg and vicinity.

  Dr. Anna L. B. Ryder is a member of the Medical Society and of the 
Chambersburg Hospital Staff.  By faith she is Episcopalian.