BIO:  William Hollingsworth Kilgore, York County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis

Copyright 2006.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/york/
_______________________________________________ 

History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
_______________________________________________ 

Part II, Biographical Sketches, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 164

WILLIAM HOLLINGSWORTH KILGORE, M.D., of Delta, Peach Bottom Township, was born in Lower 
Chanceford Township, October 31, 1815.  His parents, John and Margaret (Nelson) Kilgore, 
natives of the same township, were of Scotch descent, and had eight children, of whom Dr. K. is 
now the only one living.  His father was a farmer, and subject remained with him until he was 
fifteen years of age, attending the common schools.  In 1830 he attended a Latin and Greek 
school in his township for one year and nine months, when he entered the office of Dr. 
Levingston, of Chanceford Township, and continued the study of Latin and Greek.  In 1833 he 
went to Newark, Delaware Academy for one year, then to York Academy for two years, first as a 
student and then as assistant teacher.  From there he went to Franklin College, New Athens, 
Ohio, for two years, and graduated in 1836 as A. B.; then he taught at the Academy at Wheeling, 
Va., until the spring of 1837.  At the office of Dr. McIlvain he next began the study of 
medicine, and in the fall of 1837 he entered the Jefferson College at Philadelphia, graduating 
in 1839.  He first began to practice at Liverpool, where he resided four years, then removed to 
York, and remained until 1848; then to Peach Bottom Township.  In 1851 he removed to Delta 
Borough, where he has since resided, and is very successful in his practice.  November 24, 
1840, he married Maria Louisa Haller, daughter of George Haller, Esq., and is the father of ten 
children:  Edwin Haller, William Nelson, Frances Louisa, Florence Susan, Ida Augusta, Clara 
(deceased) and an infant unnamed.  The Doctor has held a number of township offices, such as 
school director and judge of elections.