BIO: Dr. William J. THOMPSON, Roxbury, 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 347
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DR. WILLIAM J. THOMPSON

  Dr. Thompson was a physician and practiced his profession at Roxbury.  He was 
the first physician of record to locate in this village.  Two persons now 
living, both of whom were born in Roxbury in 1845, agree that Dr. Thompson was 
in practice there in 1852 and 1853.  He was then an elderly man, suffering to a 
marked degree with Paralysis Agitans.

  There is now in existence an old day book which indicates that Dr. Thompson 
was living in Roxbury and buying provisions in 1832.  How long Dr. Thompson 
practiced medicine at Roxbury before 1832 and after 1853 or when he was born, or 
when he died is not now known.