BIO: Thomas Dallas WHITE, M.D., Orrstown, 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 343
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THOMAS DALLAS WHITE, M. D.

  Thomas D. White was born in 1872 in Upper Strasburg.  After receiving a common 
school education he read medicine with Dr. James M. Gelwix in Upper Strasburg 
and after the usual course was graduated M. D. in 1893 from the Medico 
Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, Pa.

  Dr. White began the practice of medicine in Upper Strasburg, remaining until 
1898 when he located in Orrstown in partnership with Dr. A. K. Leberknight and 
succeeded to the practice at the latter's death.

  Dr. White was in war service for a time as Contract Surgeon during the 
Spanish-American War.  He is a member of the Medical Society and was President 
in 1911, and is a member of Chambersburg Hospital Staff.

  He married Harriet Leberknight, the daughter of Dr. A. K. Leberknight.