BIO:  M. Hoke, 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, Jackson Township, Pg 118

M. HOKE, M.D., is a native of York County, Penn., and was born in Jackson 
Township in 1859.  His parents, Henry and Anna (Hershey) Hoke, are both natives 
of York County, and descendants of old families of the county.  Our subject was 
reared in this native county, and attended the common schools, and also York 
County Academy.  About the age of eighteen years he commenced the study of 
medicine with Dr. J. Wiest, then of Jackson Township, but now one of the leading 
practitioners of York, Penn.  Under the tutelage of Dr. Wiest he remained three 
years, attending lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 
the meantime, and graduating from that institution in 1881.  He also attended a 
special course of anatomy in 1880.  In 1881 he located in Spring Grove, and 
commenced the practice of his profession, which is continually increasing.  He 
was married, in 1883, to Miss Harriet Schwartz, of York County, Penn.  Dr. Hoke 
is a member of the German Reformed Church, and his wife of the Lutheran Church.