BIO: Benjamin Franklin SHOPE, M.D., Dry Run, 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 355-356
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SHOPE, M. D.
1853-1925

  B. F. Shope was born in 1853 in Huntingdon County, the son of John Shope.  He 
read medicine with Dr. W. T. Browning at Orbisonia and after the usual course 
was graduated M. D. in 1882 from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York 
City.

  Dr. Shope located at Dry Run as the successor of Dr. John H. Flickinger and 
for forty-three years was in active practice in this village and vicinity.  His 
death occurred July 3, 1925.  He was not a member of the Medical Society.

  He married in 1884, Sadie McKee of Cleveland, Ohio, and second, Martha Skinner 
of Dry Run.