History of York County, PA, Powell, Geo. R.   Vol 2    1907  Page 257-8

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HORACE M. ALLEMAN, M. D., of Hanover, is a son of Dr. Horace and Rebecca
(Winnemore) Alleman, and was born at Hanover, York Co., Pa., Feb. 19,
1863. He received. his early education in the public schools, fitted for
college at Baugher's Academy, and in 1881 entered Lafayette College at
Easton, this State, from which he was graduated in the class of 1885.
Shortly after graduation, and in the same year, he entered the Medical
Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was
graduated three years later in the class of 1888, and immediately
returned to Hanover for the practice of his chosen profession. He was
successful from the start has kept up with the medical advancement of
the times, and now enjoys a very enviable practice. He is a member of
St. Mark's Lutheran Church. He is a prominent Mason, belonging to Patmos
Lodge No. 348, at Hanover, and he also belongs to Hanover Lodge, No.
763, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and Hanover Lodge, No.
327, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he has always been an
active supporter of the Republican party and its principles. He is
interested in public affairs, yet no politician, active in working for
the supremacy of his party, but no office seeker. He takes a special
interest in the schools of Hanover, like his father before him, and when
elected as school director in 1896, he accepted, and has been serving in
that capacity ever since. He is now president of the board. Devoted to
his profession, he is progressive and enterprising, a man abreast of the
times and in touch with the medical spirit of the age He is a member of
York County Medical Society, and also of the American Academy of
Medicine.
In 1891 Dr. Alleman wedded Cora Young, a daughter of W. J. Young, of
Hanover. Their union has been blessed with one child, a son, Winnemore.
Dr. Horace Alleman, the father of the subject of this sketch, was one of
the old physicians of Hanover, where he practiced for nearly thirty
years. He was born Jan. I8, 1824, in Lancaster county, this State, son
of John and Elizabeth (Mockert) Alleman, the former a native of Dauphine
county, and the latter of Lancaster county. The Allemans are of German
descent and were among the early settlers and prominent people of
Dauphine county, where John Alleman was born in 1792. He settled near
Elizabethtown, Lancaster county, and died there in 1866, and his wife,
who was born in 1797, preceded him to the tomb by one year.
Dr. Horace Alleman was reared on his father's farm, received his
education in the Emaus Institute and Pennsylvania College, and read
medicine with Dr. Nathaniel Watson Of East Donegal township, Lancaster
county. He was graduated in the class of. 1848, from the Pennsylvania
Medical College, now the University of Pennsylvania, and practiced from
1848 to 1859 at Elizabethtown and Safe Harbor, in his native county. In
the last named year he came to Hanover, where he soon obtained a good
practice, and where he died Jan. 14, 1887. He was an Odd Fellow and a
member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, and in politics was successively a
Whig and a Republican. At the time of his death he was burgess of
Hanover, in whose advancement he took a great interest, especially in
the public schools, having served for many years as school director. Dr.
Alleman was recognized as one of the leading physicians of the. country,
and had a lucrative and extensive practice. In 1847 he married Rebecca
Winnemore, daughter of Thomas Winnemore, of near Elizabethtown,
Lancaster county, and of the ten children born to them five grew to
maturity., John H., cashier of the First National Bank of Hanover.
Agnes, a teacher in the public schools ; Jennie, wife of J. J.
Rohrbaugh, of Helena, Montana; Louise, wife of Edward Wentz; and Dr.
Horace M. Mrs. Alleman survived her husband two years, dying Jan. 14,
1889, aged sixty-five years, and the remains of both rest in Mt.Olivet
Cemetery.

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