BIO:  George R. Hursh, 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, Fairview Township, Pg 98

DR. GEORGE R. HURSH, a lineal descendant, was elected a member of the house of 
representatives of Pennsylvania from York County in 1868, and re-elected the 
following year.  He was born February 6, 1835, in Fairview Township, and was 
brought up on his father’s farm.  At the age of sixteen he attended the 
Cumberland Valley Institute, after which he made the study of medicine his 
choice, and having attended the regular course of lectures in Jefferson Medical 
College, at Philadelphia, he graduated in that institution March 7, 1857.  He has 
since been continuously engaged in the active duties of his profession, until the 
spring of 1884, when he began to devote a part of his time to the delightful and 
healthful pursuits of agriculture on his farm in Fairview Township, York County.