BIO: Ambrose Watts THRUSH, M.D., 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 137
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AMBROSE WATTS THRUSH, M. D.

  A. W. Thrush was born December 23, 1865, in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, 
Pa., the son of Daniel Webster and Mary Ann (Bollinger) Thrush.  He received his 
education in select schools and at the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, 
Shippensburg, Pa.  In 1880 at the age of fifteen years, he began to teach school 
in Horse Valley, and for eight successive years taught in the common and graded 
schools of Letterkenny and Greene Townships.  While teaching school he read 
medicine with Dr. David Maclay in Greenvillage, and then attended Jefferson 
Medical College, graduating M. D. with the class of 1890.

  Dr. Thrush located at once in Greenvillage, practicing for one year in 
partnership with Dr. David Maclay.  In 1891 Dr. Maclay removed to Chambersburg, 
Dr. Thrush buying his property and practice and continuing to practice in this 
place until 1908 when he removed to Chambersburg and has since been in practice 
here.

  Dr. Thrush is a member of Rocky Spring Chapter Sons of American Revolution.  
He was Coroner of the County 1893-1896, a member of the Medical Society, its 
President in 1924 and Secretary in 1925, a member of the Staff of the 
Chambersburg Hospital and physician to the County Jail 1924 to 1928.  He is a 
Republican in politics and a member and officer in Zion Reformed Church.

  He married in 1891 Mary Jane Keefer, daughter of Hon. Cyrus T. Keefer of 
Letterkenny Township.