Northumberland-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....Raessler, Joel G. 

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DR. JOEL G. RAESSLER, a leading physician and also a druggist of Mount Carmel,

is a son of George and Sarah (Geist) Raessler, and was born February 4, 1846, in

Hegins township, Schuylkill County, Pa.



  The father of our subject was a native of Northumberland County, but he

removed when quite young to Schuylkill County, in which he resided and followed

his trade as a tanner throughout his active career.



  Our subject received his preliminary education in the common schools and

attended the Freeburg Academy and the Millersville State Normal School for some

time. He first mastered civil engineering and surveying, at which profession he

worked for five years, teaching in the common schools during the winter months,

and also began the study of medicine, determined to adopt a profession more to

his liking than surveying or teaching. He received his preliminary instruction

in medicine from Dr. Shope of Valley View, Schuylkill County. Entering the

Umversity of Michigan, he took a course which well fitted him to complete the

learning which he had set out to gain, graduating from that institution and then

entering the celebrated Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, from which he

graduated in 1870.



  Immediately returning to Valley View after his graduation from the

Philadelphia college Dr. Raessler entered upon the practice of his profession in

that town and was very successful, continuing to practice there for fourteen

years. He then removed to Mount Carmel, where he has since resided and where he

has by strict attention to his clientage, and by his unusual ability and his

very extensive knowledge of disease and the most modern methods of practice,

attained high rank as a physician and a business which is very gratifying as

well as lucrative. In addition to his regular practice he also conducts a drug

business which has been very successful.



  Politically Dr. Raessler always has been a stanch and consistent Democrat. He

has served as a member of the board of school directors in Mount Carmel and also

as a member of the borough council. He is a member of the lodge of the I. O. O.

F. at Hegins, Schuylkill County, having joined it when he was twenty-four years

of age. Religiously Dr. Raessler is an active member of Grace Reformed Church,

Mount Carmel, of which he was one of the original trustees. He also has been

superintendent of the Sunday School, being the first at the head of the school

upon its organization, in May, 1888.



  Dr. Raessler married Mary E. Loudenslager, and to them have been born four

sons: Rufus, a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, who is

practicing his profession at Anthon, Woodbury County, Ia.; Elvin, a painter, who

resides in Iowa; Vester, who is attending the Ohio Normal University and is to

be a pharmacist; and Archie, who is at home.







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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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