BIO: Fairfax George WRIGHT, 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 145
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  FAIRFAX GEORGE WRIGHT, M. D.

  F. G. Wright was born in 1876 at Bloomington, Ill., but spent most of his 
boyhood in Virginia.  He was educated in the public schools and at Roanoke 
College, from which school he was graduated A. B. in 1899.  After the usual 
course of study he was graduated M. D. in 1903 from the University of Maryland, 
and after graduation served as Interne (sic) and Clinical Assistant in the 
University of Maryland 1903 to 1906 inclusive.

  Dr. Wright registered in Franklin County in 1908 and practiced medicine in 
partnership with Dr. Guy P. Asper until 1917.  In 1918 he was commissioned First 
Lieutenant Medical Corps U. S. N. A. and served nine months at Camp Wadsworth, 
South Carolina.  After the war he resumed the individual practice of medicine in 
Chambersburg and so continued.  He is a member of the Medical Society and was 
President in 1924, and is a member of the Hospital Staff and specializes in 
general surgery.

  Dr. Wright married Miss Ida A. Gillis, R. N., who for a time prior to her 
marriage was Directress of Nurses in the Chambersburg Hospital.