BIO: Abraham Barr SNIVELY, A.B., M.D., Waynesboro, 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 191
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ABRAHAM BARR SNIVELY, A. B., M. D.

  A. Barr Snively was born November 14, 1869, in Waynesboro, Pa., a son of Dr. 
Isaac Newton and Alice Barbara (Barr) Snively.  He received his preliminary 
education in the Waynesboro schools and at the Chambersburg Academy.  He 
attended Johns Hopkins University taking his A. B. in 1892 from this institution 
and after the required course was graduated M. D., 1895, by the University of 
Pennsylvania.  During the summer of 1894 he spent three months in Johns Hopkins 
Hospital under Dr. Howard N. Kelly.

  Dr. Snively has been in continuous active practice in Waynesboro since his 
graduation.  In 1902 he did Post-Graduate work as in interne in the Church Home 
and Infirmary, Baltimore, Md., and for some years has been specializing in 
General Surgery.

  Dr. Snively for several years, about 1914, operated at Blue Ridge Summit, a 
private sanatorium for the care and treatment of cases of incipient 
tuberculosis.  He has been a very active member of the Medical Society since 
1895 and served as President in 1903.  He is a member of the staff of the 
Chambersburg Hospital, and served as a member of the Waynesboro Hospital staff 
since the organization of the hospital until 1928 when he tendered his 
resignation.

  Dr. Snively married first in 1895, Mary Carlyle of Chambersburg and second, 
January, 1928, Dr. Florence M. Gottschall.