BIO:  Lemuel S. Lawson, 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 Township, Pg 205

LEMUEL S. LAWSON, M.D., son of Thomas and Ellen Lawson (whose maiden name was Stansbury, a 
native of Carroll County, Md.).  The father of Dr. Lawson was born in York County, Penn.; April 
2, 1837, dates the birth of our subject in Manheim Township.  He was educated at the public 
schools of Carroll Township, Md., and at Irving College.  After completing his course he taught 
school for five years and then began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Henry Beltz, of 
Carroll County, Md.  Dr. Lawson graduated from the Maryland University in 1867, and then 
located at Klinefeltersville, and commenced the regular practice of his profession.  Here he 
remained only a short time and then went to Dallastown, where he has ever since continued the 
practice.  He was married, in 1870, to Miss Margaret A. McFagen, of Chanceford Township.  Mrs. 
Lawson died in 1872, and five years later Dr. Lawson married Miss Sarah Neff, daughter of 
Charles Neff of Dallastown.  They have one child.  Dr. and Mrs. Lawson are member of the United 
Brethren Church.