BIO: Thomas H. WALKER, M.D., Dry Run, 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 354
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THOMAS H. WALKER, M. D.

  Dr. Walker was born in Virginia and graduated M. D. in 1864 from the 
Pennsylvania Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.  He came to Franklin County in 
1866 and located at Dry Run, where he practiced medicine for ten years or more 
and then removed to Mercersburg and was there for about ten years in the drug 
business in connection with the practice of medicine.  About 1890 he returned to 
Dry Run, where he died some years later.

  Dr. Walker was admitted to the Medical Society in 1873 and readmitted in 1895 
and was a vice-president in 1887.

  Dr. Walker, it is known, was in Dry Run in 1876 and in 1895 and was in 
Mercersburg in 1881.