BIO: Jacob Lewis SUESSEROTT, M.D., D.D.S., Chambersburg, 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 81-82 
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JACOB LEWIS SUESSEROTT, M.D., D.D.S.

1829 – 1886

Dr. Suesserott was the eldest of three brothers and was born in Chambersburg, 
February 20, 1829, a son of Christian L. and Eleanor Suesserrott (sic).  
Christian L. Suesserott was born 1791 in Hanover, Germany, and died in 
Chambersburg in 1833.

Dr. Suesserott received his preliminary education at the Chambersburg Academy, 
then conducted by William Van Lear Davis, Esq.  He then studied medicine in 
Chambersburg with Dr. A. H. Senseny and received his degree M.D. in 1851 from 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.  He also attended dental lectures 
and received the degree D.D.S. from Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery.

Dr. Suesserott located in Chambersburg in 1851 and was in active practice here 
until 1859, when he was elected Professor of Physiology and Mechanical Dentistry 
in his Alma Mater and filled this position acceptably until 1862.  He then 
resigned and came back to Chambersburg to better care for his family and 
business interests during the unsettled conditions of the Civil War.  He resumed 
practice of medicine and so continued until the time of his death on July 16, 
1886.

In 1879 in association with Dr. Chas. H. Merklein he established in Chambersburg 
the "Jenner Vaccine Farm."  Soon after Dr. Merklein withdrew and the business 
was conducted by himself and his son and successor, Dr. L. Fred Suesserott.  In 
this business the Suesserotts, father and son, were the pioneers in the 
Cumberland Valley.  Their product was in demand not only locally, but in distant 
places.  The United States Government at times bought this vaccine in large 
quantities.

Dr. Suesserott was the first President of The Childrens Aid Society of Franklin 
County.  He was a very active member of the Medical Society of Franklin County, 
and its President in 1877, and he was a frequent contributor to current medical 
journals.

He married 1852, Julia E. Smith of Chambersburg.

His death was caused by Brights Disease and he died in the same room in which he 
was born.