BIO: Dr. Abraham SENSENY, 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, Pages 57-58 
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DR. ABRAHAM SENSENY

1761 – 1844

Abraham Senseny was born in New Holland, Lancaster Co., Penna., and came from 
there to Chambersburg in 1781, where he practiced medicine continuously from 
this date to the time of his death in 1844.

He was the second physician to locate in Chambersburg and for two years was the 
only physician in the town.  Dr. Senseny was highly esteemed in the community 
for his ability as a physician and his exemplary character.  He was a member of 
the Mennonite Church, a society which maintains that practical piety is the 
essence of pure religion.  He married a daughter of Frederick Huber, who was 
born at Paltz, Germany, and was a volunteer in the Revolutionary War and died 
during the war in a hospital in Philadelphia.  His wife visited him during his 
last hours and contracted the same fever and died also.

Dr. Senseny's education was principally in German and Latin, he having studied 
medicine with an uncle in Philadelphia, who had been graduated in the Old 
Country.  This was, in those days, the usual mode of admission into the 
fraternity of physicians.

Dr. Senseny was the first physician to the Almshouse in 1808.  He died suddenly 
of apoplexy in 1844, after sixty-three years of active practice in Chambersburg 
and vicinity.  His remains lie in Zion Reformed Churchyard.