BIO: Edgar M. SLONAKER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 81.
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  EDGAR M. SLONAKER, D.D.S., was born in Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, Pa., 
April 19, 1870, and is a son of John and Matilda (Geiger) Slonaker.  John 
Slonaker was born in Jersey Shore, January 1, 1821; he passed his life in 
the same county, and was a lumber dealer.  Mrs. John Slonaker was born in 
Millersburg, Dauphin county, Pa., in 1830.  Their family consisted of nine 
children; two died in childhood, and Martha A., wife of Thomas H. Burch, of 
New York City, died November 2, 1892.  The remaining children are:  
Josephine, wife of John G. Calvert, of Jersey Shore; Willard, residing in 
Jersey Shore; Menetta; John Jr.; Andrew, a dentist, residing at present in 
Italy; and Edgar M.  The father of the family died in Jersey Shore, May 10, 
1892, and his wife in the same year, on the 27th of December.
  Edgar M. Slonaker was educated in the common schools of Jersey Shore, and 
lived in that town until 1892.  In that same year he graduated from the 
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, Philadelphia, Pa., after two years' 
study at that institution.  Since his graduation he has practiced dentistry 
uninterruptedly in Huntingdon.
  Dr. Slonaker is an active member of the lodge of I.O.O.F. at Jersey Shore, 
and of P.O.S. of A., Huntingdon.  His politics are Republican.  Dr. Slonaker 
is unmarried.