BIO: John O. SKINNER, 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 120
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JOHN O. SKINNER, M. D.

  Dr. Skinner was born in 1845 in Baltimore, Md., and received his preliminary 
education at Rugby Institute and his medical education at the University of 
Maryland, from which institution he was graduated M. D. in 1866.  He then 
attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a degree M. D. from this 
school in 1867.

  Dr. Skinner was for a number of years a surgeon in the U. S. Army.  He retired 
from the army and located, in 1904, in Chambersburg.  His rank was at this time 
Major and Surgeon U. S. A. retired.  He never was in active practice in Franklin 
County, but was while here an active member of the Medical Society.

  After some years residence, five or six years, Dr. Skinner removed to 
Washington, D. C., in which city he now resides.