BIO: David F. UNGER, 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 244-245
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DAVID F. UNGER, M. D.
1843-1922

  David F. Unger was born at Smithsburg, Maryland, a son of David Unger.

  He received his preliminary education at Washington and Jefferson College.  
After his graduation from this college he began the study of medicine with Dr. 
John Montgomery in Chambersburg and was graduated M. D., 1869, from Bellevue 
Hospital Medical College, New York City.  After a service of one year in the 
Infants Hospital, Randall's Island, N. Y., Dr. Unger located in Mercersburg, 
Pa., and followed his profession successfully in this town for fifty-two years.  
During the War of the Rebellion he served a nine months enlistment in Company 
D., 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry.  Dr. Unger was a member of the Medical Society 
from 1878 and was president in 1883.

  Dr. Unger was the typical "Family Doctor".  He possessed more than an average 
ability as a physician.  He was unassuming, kind and courteous to all, loyal to 
his clientele, conscientious to a degree in his work, and interested in the 
welfare of the town in which he lived and in the health and happiness of 
everybody living within the radius of a wide circle of which Mercersburg was the 
center.

  He was known to all and respected by everyone.  His passing, after more than 
fifty years of continuous service, left in the memory of the public a 
remembrance of a life well and nobly spent.

  Dr. Unger married in 1872 Sophie Elizabeth Slaymaker of Gap, Lancaster County, 
Pa.