BIO: James Andrew VINSON, M.D., Claylick, 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 377
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JAMES ANDREW VINSON, M. D.
1823-1885

  Dr. Vinson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, about 1823 and graduated M. D. in 
1846 from Louisville, Kentucky, Medical College.  He came to Pennsylvania in 
1863 with the Confederate Army, deserted and began the practice of medicine in 
Franklin County at Claylick.  Shortly afterward he married Miss Hannah Brant of 
Franklin County.

  Dr. Vinson after a time removed to Mercersburg where he remained a year or two 
and then located in the neighborhood of Williamson, where he was in practice for 
some years.  About 1880 he left Franklin County and was in practice at several 
places in Washington County, Md.  He died in 1885 near Wilson's Store, about 
seven miles northwest of Hagerstown, Md.

  Dr. Vinson was never a member of the Medical Society.