BIO: Isaac Newton SNIVELY, 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 173-174
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ISAAC NEWTON SNIVELY, M. D.
1839-1913

  Isaac Newton Snively was born in 1839 near Jackson Hall in Guilford Township, 
this county, the son of John and Catherine (Keefer) Snively.  He received his 
education in the common schools, at Fayetteville Academy and the private 
Classical School of Thomas J. Harris in Chambersburg.  He taught in the rural 
school for a time and then took a course in Duff's Commercial College, 
Pittsburgh, Pa., graduating in 1857.

  In 1858 while teaching school south of Waynesboro, he began the study of 
medicine with Dr. Benjamin Frantz in Waynesboro in the intervals of school 
duties.  In 1859 he became a student of Dr. J. C. Richards in Chambersburg and 
then attended Jefferson Medical College, graduating M. D., 1862, from this 
institution.

  He at once began the practice of medicine in Chambersburg.  In 1863 he was 
commissioned by Governor Curtin as Assistant Surgeon and assigned to duty at 
Camp Curtin.  Later he became Acting Surgeon of the 20th Pennsylvania Regiment.  
After being mustered out of service he returned to Chambersburg and became a 
partner with Dr. J. C. Richards and they had charge of the Town Hall Hospital.  
Later Dr. Snively was on duty in the U. S. A. General Hospital at Beverly, N. 
J., where he continued until near the close of the war, when he resigned and 
located in Waynesboro as the successor of Dr. James Brotherton, Jr., who had 
recently died.

  Later for a time he was a partner with Dr. Benjamin Frantz.  Dr. Snively was a 
very energetic and successful practitioner and enjoyed one of the largest 
practices in the county.

  He was a charter member of the Medical Society in 1869 and always took an 
active interest in society matters.  He also was a member of the Waynesboro 
Medical organizations.  Dr. Snively was President of the Medical Society in 
1873.  He was a member of the G. A. R. and always active and much interested in 
the affairs of this organization.

  Dr. Snively married in 1863, Alice B. Barr of Waynesboro and second, married 
in 1904, Mrs. O. W. Good, a cousin of his first wife.