BIO:  A. R. Blair, M.D., York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 8

A. R. BLAIR, M.D., was born in Strasburg, Lancaster Co., Penn., in 1826; is a 
son of James and Jean (Campbell) Blair, and is of Scotch-Irish origin.  His 
father was born in Ireland in 1790, and his mother in Pennsylvania in 1795.  He 
first came to York in 1850.  He received an academic education at the schools of 
Maryland and southern Pennsylvania.  He read medicine under Dr. Samuel Kenagy of 
Strasburg, Penn., and Dr. Theo. Haller of York, and also attended lectures at 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated in March, 1853.  
The same year (1853) he located in York and practiced until 1856, when he was 
elected superintendent of the public schools of York County.  He resigned in 
1862 and was appointed acting assistant surgeon by Gen. William A. Hammond, 
surgeon-general, United States Army.  He remained in this service until 
September, 1865, and immediately resumed the practice of his profession.  He is 
a member of the York County Medical Association, State Medical Association and 
American Medical Association.  In 1864 he married Miss Cassandra Morris Small, 
daughter of the late Phillip A. and Sarah Small, of York.  One child has been 
born to him, Philip A.  The Doctor was formerly a Whig, but is now a Republican, 
and he and Mrs. Blair are members of the Presbyterian Church.