Northumberland-Northampton-Lackawanna County PA Archives Biographies.....Longshore, Ashabel B. 1869 - living in 1899

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ASHBEL B. LONGSHORE, D. D. S.. a prosperous and popular dentist of Mt.Carmel, 

with a large practice, is a son of Evan J. and Mary (Segraves) Longshore, and 

was born April 2, 1869, in South Easton, Northampton County, Pa. Our subject 

started on his active business career as a messenger boy and has worked 

diligently until he has raised himself to a prominent position in his chosen 

profession and is known as one of the most capable and successful practitioners 

of dentistry in the county.



  After obtaining a comparatively meager preliminary education in the common

schools of Scranton, Pa., our subject at the age of fourteen years began to earn

his living and set out to make his own way with comparatively little assistance.

He entered the employ of the Postal Telegraph Company and served as a messenger

for about two and a half years. Next he was in the employ of the Grand Union Tea

Company and, determined to follow out his ambition, he entered Wood's Business

College at Scranton, in which he received a fairly good business education. He

then removed to Hazleton, Pa., where he was employed as bookkeeper for the

Lehigh Coal Company. Our subject was fortunate in having access to the large

library of his uncle, Dr. W. R. Longshore, a prominent physician at Hazleton,

and he studied assiduously while keeping the books of the coal company. Having

decided to take up dentistry as a profession, he entered the Pennsylvania

College of Dental Surgery at Philadelphia from which he graduated in 1895. He

immediately removed to Hazleton where he practiced his profession for a year and

then removed to Mt. Carmel, where he has since been an honored resident and a

leader among its professional men.



  Dr. Longshore comes of a family of physicians, evidently inheriting the

natural aptitude and liking for the profession in which he has been so

successful and in which he stands so prominent. His grandfather, Ashbel

Longshore, was one of the first physicians to locate at Hazleton and began his

practice there when the town was very small. The father of our subject, Evan J.

Longshore, also was a physician and followed his profession in Scranton, Pa.,

during the major part of his life time. A brother of our subject, Eugene, is now

attending the dental college in Philadelphia.



  Our subject is a member of the Mt. Carmel Commandery No. 22, Knights of Malta.

He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Stager and to them has been born one

child, Jennie W.





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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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



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