BIO:  I. C. Gable, 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 19

I. C. GABLE, M.D., whose portrait, as one of the leading representative 
physicians of York, appears in this work, is a native of York County and was 
born in Windsor Township June 26, 1849.  His ancestors, who were of German and 
Swiss descent, immigrated to America about the middle of the seventeenth 
century; his paternal grandfather was a soldier in the American Revolution and 
fought under Gen. Anthony Wayne in the war against the Indians.  The subject of 
our sketch received his preliminary education in his native county and in the 
State Normal School at Millersville, Lancaster County.  In 1867 he began 
teaching in the schools of Spring Garden Township, and subsequently became the 
principal of the schools of Port Royal, Juniata County, Penn., and Murray, Ind.  
On July 4, 1871, Dr. Gable began a tour through the Western States and Indian 
Territory, acting a portion of the time as a newspaper correspondent.  After 
three years' travel, visiting the leading cities and towns and gathering much 
useful information, he determined to return to York and engaged in the 
profession of medicine.  With Dr. J. W. Kerr, of York, he finished a course of 
preliminary reading, and in September, 1875, he went to Philadelphia and under 
the preceptorship of Dr. Charles T. Hunter, late chemical surgeon in the 
University of Pennsylvania, continued his studies in that city until he was 
graduated from the university March 12, 1877, subsequently taking a post 
graduate course in his alma mater, devoting most of his time to the special 
study of general surgery in that Institution and in the surgical dispensary of 
the Pennsylvania Hospital.  Dr. Gable located for practice in York in November, 
1877, where he has since been actively engaged and has established a most 
successful general practice.  His special professional taste, however, 
apparently inclines in favor of surgery.  He is a young man of untiring energy 
and a devoted student to his chosen profession.  In person Dr. Gable is a genial 
gentleman and thoroughly progressive; is a member of the National State and 
County Medical Association, and a member of the Presbyterian Church of York.
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