BIO:  Augustus C. Hetrick, 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, Warrington Township, Pg 196

AUGUSTUS C. HETRICK, M.D., was born January 11, 1835, in Codorus Township, York Co., 
Penn., and is a son of Christian W. and Henrietta (Wolfran) Hetrick, natives of York 
County.  His maternal grandfather was a native of Saxony, and came to York County, 
about 1800, was one of the leading men of his time in York County, and held various 
positions of trust, besides having represented York County in the legislature about 
1820.  His death occurred in 1834.  The father of subject was born December 2, 1799, 
and was a farmer by occupation.  He had ten children:  Edmund, Hezekiah, Augustus, 
A. J., Chester E., Abraham, Tilman F., Octavius, Elma and Wilhelmina.  He died in 
1878.  Our subject grew to manhood on the farm.  He attended the public schools and 
the York County Academy, and from 1852 to 1856, was a student at White Hall Academy, 
in Cumberland County, Penn.  During a term of years, in which he was engaged in 
school teaching, he studied medicine with Dr. Mechem, of Pleasantville, Md.  In the 
fall of 1856, he entered the Ohio College of Medicine at Cincinnati, and in the 
spring of 1858, located at Warrington Township, where he has since continued the 
practice of his profession.  He was married, in 1860, to Miss Amanda Hayward, 
daughter of Dr. Hayward, of Warrington Township.  They have five children:  Gerney 
H., Russie, Bruce, Anna and Effie B.