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DR. REUBEN HOLLENBACK,* a leading dentist of Shamokin, Pa., is a son of Daniel

and Elizabeth (Sherry) Hollenback. He was born September 1, 1841, in Lower

Augusta township, near Sunbury, Pa., where he was reared. At the age of sixteen

years he began to teach school and continued in that occupation for six years,

teaching in Coal township and Shamokin.



  While teaching our subject took up the study of the dental profession under

the tutelage of Dr. B. F. Van Boskirk of Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pa. He

entered the Pennsylvania Dental College in Philadelphia in 1877, and after

graduating from that institution removed to Shamokin where he since has resided

and has continuously practiced his profession, now possessing a large clientage

which he has secured by the excellence of his dental work, his uniform courtesy

and his painstaking effort to keep abreast with every progressive and modern

method in dentistry.



  Politically our subject is a staunch Republican and has for years been active

in the interest of his party. He has been a member of the common council of

Shamokin, in which he now represents the Third Ward, and he served for one year

as president of the body. Dr. Hollenback never sought public office, excepting

when he yielded to the wishes of his many friends and consented to become a

councilman. He is a member of St. John's Reformed Church.



  Our subject twice has been married, his first marriage being to Dorothea,

daughter of Michael M. Sober, who resided in the Irish Valley, Northumberland

County. Mrs. Dorothea Hollenback died October 24, 1887, leaving three children,

as follows: William S., who is a resident of Reading, Pa., and a piano-tuner by

occupation; Hudson, a dentist practicing in Mount Carmel, Pa., who graduated

from the Pennsylvania Dental College in Philadelphia in 1891; and Edwin E., also

a dentist, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Dental College from which he received

his diploma in 1892, then engaging in practice with his father until 1898, when

he established an independent office in Shamokin, Pa. Dr. Reuben Hollenback was

married December 6, 1888, to Savilla, daughter of William Fidler of Shamokin,

and to them have been born two children, Harry Franklin, aged eight years, and

Flora Lillian, aged six years.



. Dr. D. S. Hollenback, brother of our subject, a prominent physician and

surgeon of Shamokin, was born May 26, 1836, in Lower Augusta township,

Northumberland County, being the eldest son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Sherry)

Hollenback. He was educated in the township schools and at Freeburg Academy,

subsequently studied medicine in the office of Dr. Eyster, now of Sunbury, Pa.,

and was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, in April,

1864. Soon after his graduation from Jefferson College Dr. Hollenback entered

upon the practice of medicine and surgery in Shamokin, where he since has

resided and has become one of the leading practitioners of the county. He

married Clara, daughter of Isaac Sober of Shamokin township, and to them has

been born one child, William W. Dr. Hollenback is an ardent Republican, but

never has been a seeker of office and has held only one public position, that of

director of the poor, which he most acceptably filled in 1876. Dr. Hollenback is

a leading member of St. John's Reformed Church of Shamokin. He is widely known

as one of the oldest practitioners of medicine in Northumberland County that are

now actively engaged in their profession.







Additional Comments:

* The information contained in this biography was supplied by the subject of

this sketch. A type-set copy of the biography was sent to the subject to be

proof-read, but the subject did not edit and return the copy, so this biography

may contain typographical errors.



  Extracted from:

    

    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

    Published by 

    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)





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