BIO: Frederick Gelwicks STROCK, M.D., St. Thomas, 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 324
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FREDERICK GELWICKS STROCK, M. D.
1862-1911

  Dr. Strock was born in 1862 at St. Thomas, the son of Jacob and Rachael 
(Gelwicks) Strock.  He attended the Chambersburg Academy and Pennsylvania 
College, Gettysburg, and then read medicine with Dr. Ramsey at St. Thomas.  
After the usual course he was graduated M. D. in 1886 from Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia, Pa.

  He at once located at St. Thomas in partnership with Dr. Ramsey.  After 
several years this partnership was dissolved and Dr. Strock continued to 
practice alone at St. Thomas during the remainder of his lifetime.  He was 
admitted to the Medical Society in 1895.

  He married in 1891, Anna B. Maxheimer of St. Thomas.