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 183-184
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ISAAC NEWTON SNIVELY, M. D.
1862-1909

  I. N. Snively was born in 1862 in Guilford Township the son of John Keefer and 
Urilla Barbara (Hade) Snively, and a nephew of Dr. I. N. Snively, Waynesboro.

  Dr. Snively attended Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, graduating A. B. in 
1887 and taking his A. M. in 1890.  After the usual course of lectures he was 
graduated M. D. in 1889 from Bellevue Hospital Medical College.  Dr. Snively 
followed the profession continuously during his life time in Philadelphia, Pa., 
and held numerous positions, some which were:  Visiting Physician, Methodist 
Home for the Aged; Assistant Neurologist, Medico Chirurgical College Dispensary; 
Lecturer on Physical Diagnosis, Medical Chirurgical College and Professor of 
Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical Department of Temple University.  
He was the first physician in Philadelphia to administer anti-toxin in the 
treatment of diptheria.

  Dr. Snively was a Republican in politics and a member of the Lutheran Church.  
In 1891 he married Cynthia Powers Tipton.