BIO: John Veitch SHOEMAKER, M.D., L.L.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 98 
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JOHN VEITCH SHOEMAKER, M.D., L.L.D.

1852 – 1910

John V. Shoemaker was born in Chambersburg, Pa., March 18, 1852, and died 
October 11, 1910, in Philadelphia.  He was a son of Lewis A. and Mary M. 
(Greenawalt) Shoemaker.

After his graduation from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1872, he 
matriculated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., and was graduated 
M. D. in 1874.  He immediately received an appointment as Demonstrator of 
Anatomy in his Alma Mater.  In 1880 he became Demonstrator of Materia Medica and 
in 1883 Lecturer on Diseases of the Skin in Jefferson Medical College.  In 1886 
he became Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Medico Chirurgical 
College and was an active teacher and investigator for more than twenty-four 
years.

Dr. Shoemaker was master of several languages, a close student and a prolific 
writer on medical subjects.  He married in 1876 Miss Jennie M. Logan of 
Pittsburgh.