BIO: Samuel Keefer 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 176
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SAMUEL KEEFER SNIVELY, M. D.
1841-1908

  S. K. Snively was born in 1841 in Guilford Township, the son of John and 
Catherine (Keefer) Snively, and a brother of Dr. Isaac Newton Snively of 
Waynesboro.  He was educated in the common schools and at Chambersburg Academy.  
He enlisted at the opening of the Civil War for three months and at the end of 
this service reenlisted for three years.  He remained in the service until the 
close of the war, becoming a sergeant and was mustered out in Texas, November, 
1865.  He then began the study of medicine with his brother, Dr. I. N. Snively 
in Waynesboro and after the usual course was graduated M. D. in 1869 from 
Jefferson Medical College.

  Dr. Snively began the practice of medicine with his brother, Dr. A. J. Snively 
in Hanover, Pa., remaining in this town until 1890 when he removed to 
Williamsport, Md., and continued in the work at this place until the time of his 
death.

  He married in 1879, Annie E. Dellinger of Washington County, Md.