BIO: Robley Dunglison 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 184-185
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ROBLEY DUNGLISON SNIVELY, M. D.

  R. D. Snively was born April 20, 1872, in Waynesboro, the son of Dr. Isaac 
Newton and Alice S. (Barr) Snively.  He attended the Waynesboro grade schools 
and Maryland Academy, Hagerstown, 1889-1890.  Dr. Snively took a pre-medical 
course in 1892 at the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated M. D. 1895 
from the Medico Chirurgical College.  He began the practice of medicine in 
Hanover, remaining one year, then for one year was an interne in Medico 
Chirurgical Hospital, and was for one year in partnership with his father in 
Waynesboro.  He then located in Philadelphia, Pa., and has been in active 
practice in this city to the present.

  From 1898 to 1908 he was instructor in Orthopedics in his Alma Mater and 
during the World War was Chief Examiner for the 38th Ward Draft Board.  Dr. 
Snively is a member of various medical societies and a member of the Staff of 
the National Stomach Hospital, Philadelphia.

  In 1896 he married Edna M. Kirk of Mifflintown, Pa.