BIO: John Philip SEIBERT, 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 99-100 
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JOHN PHILIP SEIBERT, M.D.

1853 – 1908

Dr. Seibert was born in Chambersburg, Pa., on June 3, 1853, a son of Samuel and 
Agnes W. (Grove) Seibert.  He received his education in the public schools of 
the town and attended the Chambersburg Academy.  He then entered the office of 
Dr. J. C. Richards as a student of medicine and attended lectures at the 
Jefferson Medical College, graduating M. D., in 1875, from this institution.

Dr. Seibert located at once in Chambersburg and practiced medicine here 
continuously until his death in 1908.

In 1876 he established here the Franklin Vaccine Farm and supplied virus to the 
profession and was well known over the country in this line.

He was a member of the Medical Society and of the Chambersburg Hospital Staff, 
physician to the Franklin County Jail 1877 to 1880, physician to Almshouse 1883 
to 1890, Health Officer for Chambersburg for a number of years, and for eighteen 
consecutive years he was a member of the School Board.

Dr. Seibert was an ardent Republican, a member of First Lutheran Church and a 
member of its official board for many years.

He married, in 1879, Marian Welsh of Philadelphia.