BIO:  Jonas DEISINGER, 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, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 75

JONAS DEISINGER, M. D., was born in Paradise Township (now Jackson), York 
County, April 18, 1833.  His parents were Jacob, and Salome (Davis) Deisinger of 
York County, and of German descent.  They had eleven children, of whom Jonas is 
the eldest now living.  His first twenty years he spent on his father’s farm, 
receiving his education at the neighboring schools.  For the next three years he 
attended select schools at York and other places, and taught during the winter 
in the common schools of this county.  At the age of twenty-three he began to 
read medicine with Dr. C. S. Picking, and in 1858, entered the medical 
department of Pennsylvania College at Philadelphia.  From 1861 to 1868 he 
practiced medicine at Hellam.  In 1866 he entered the University of Pennsylvania 
and graduated in the class of 1867.  After graduating he returned to Hellam, 
where, with the exception of about three years, he has been since.  In the fall 
of 1862, he was married at Hellam to Maria Mann, of York County.  The Doctor is 
a genial gentleman, fond of his profession, and has acquired a lucrative 
practice; he is a member and an elder of the Reformed Church of the United 
States, was a school director two terms, is a member of the York County Medical 
Society, once president of the same, and is also a member of the State Medical 
Association.