BIO: James Sherman SWARTZWELDER, M.D., Mercersburg, 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 246-247
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JAMES SHERMAN SWARTZWELDER, M. D.
1865-1926

  J. S. Swartzwelder was born December 30, 1865, on a farm near Breezewood, 
Bedford County, Pa., and died suddenly at his home in Mercersburg, Pa., on 
February 4th, 1926.  He worked on the home farm and attended and later taught in 
the country schools.  After graduating from the Lock Haven State Normal School, 
he studied medicine at the University of Vermont and from there matriculated at 
the Baltimore Medical College, completed the course and graduated M. D. in 1890.

  He located at once at Needmore, Fulton County, but one year later entered 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., and received his second degree M. 
D. in 1892 and at once resumed his practice at Needmore.  In 1895 he married 
Rosalie Sipe of Fulton County and in 1906 because of the ill health of Mrs. 
Swartzwelder he removed with his family to California and while there completed 
a post graduate course at the University of Southern California.

  In 1907 he came East and located in Mercersburg and was in active practice in 
this borough until the time of his death.

  Dr. Swartzwelder was admitted to the Medical Society in 1908 and retained 
membership for several years.  He was a director in the First National Bank of 
Mercersburg, President of the Board of Health and a member of the Chamber of 
Commerce.

  He is survived by his widow and two sons, Russel Harold and Wallace Ray.  The 
latter is now a medical student in the University of Maryland.