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DR. HARVEY J. S. WEICKSEL, who belongs to a family distinguished for literary

attainments and religious zeal, is a skilful veterinary surgeon of Shamokin, Pa.

He was born January 15, 1871, in Ringtown, Schuylkill County, Pa., and is a son

of Rev. Henry and Angeline Weicksel, and grandson of Henry Weicksel, who was

born and died in the province of Bavaria, Germany.



  Rev. Henry Weicksel, the father of our subject, was born in Germany, September

21, 1817, and came to this country when a young man, landing in Baltimore, Md.

He soon after entered the college at Gettysburg, married, and then settled at

Hanover, York County, and entered the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran

Church, which sacred calling he followed throughout his life. He later removed

to Ringtown, and died in December, 1896, in Shamokin, Pa., where he was living

in retirement. Rev. Luther M. C, the eldest of the children, was graduated from

Muhlenberg College at Allentown and the theological seminary.at Philadelphia,

and in 1876 entered the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and is now

stationed at Renova, Clinton County, Pa.; Jemima Elvira is the wife of Daniel G.

Seiler, of the firm of E. G. Seiler & Co., wholesale commission merchants of

Shamokin, Pa.; Amelia, unmarried, is now living in Washington, D. C.—she

graduated from Keystone State Normal School, at Kutztown, Pa., and then studied

physical culture, graduating from Dr. Sargeant's School, at Cambridge, Mass.,

and is now one of the loved and respected teachers in the Friends' School in

Washington, also finding time to do considerable special work; William began to

study for the ministry in 1884, graduating from Muhlenberg College and Mount

Airy Theological Seminary, and was called to his first charge at Shamokin, Pa.,

and then went to Coudersport, and thence to North Lima, Ohio; Frederick A. first

learned the trade of a plasterer and then clerked for a time, and at a later

period studied theology at Selinsgrove, and was ordained a minister in the

Lutheran Church and located at Numidia, Pa.; Harvey J. S., our subject, was the

next in order of birth; Lizzie, our subject's half-sister, his father having

married twice, married Julius Sebach, and to them were born one son and one

daughter; Julius, a graduate of Pennsylvania College, and also of the

theological seminary at Gettysburg, is one of the devoted and talented young

ministers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and is respected for his literary

ability and criticisms as well as for his religious fervor in promoting the best

interests of the church with which he is connected. His sister Lena is studying

kindergarten work.



  Dr. Harvey J. S. Weicksel, our subject, received his preliminary education in

the public schools and then attended one year at the State College of

Pennsylvania, when he entered the veterinary department of the University of

Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1894, and located

in September of the same year in Shamokin, Pa., where he has since remained. In

connection with his profession he does considerable work for Dr. Leonard

Pearson, state veterinary commissioner of Pennsylvania, in the way of looking

after the health of cattle.



  Dr. Weicksel is a member of the United States Veterinary Medical Association

and of the Pennsylvania State Medical Association; also a member of the Knights

of Malta and of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, taking an active part in the

choir.







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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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