BIO:  William H. McCurdy, 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, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 166

WILLIAM H. MCCURDY, M. D., was born in Peach Bottom Township, October, 26, 1854.  
His  parents were William J. and Alice J. (Fulton) McCurdy; the former a native of 
Lancaster County, the latter of York County, and were respectively of Irish and 
Scotch-Irish origin.  They were parents of nine children, of whom three sons and two 
daughters are living, and one son and three daughters are dead.  William H. McCurdy 
left home at the age of fourteen to attend Lewisburg University, Penn., and at the 
age of seventeen entered Lafayette College, where, in 1876, he graduated.  After 
teaching in the common schools two years, meantime reading medicine under Dr. 
Scarborough, of Dublin, Hartford Co., Md., he entered Jefferson College, at 
Philadelphia, in 1878.  After graduating in 1881 he began to practice near State 
Hill, and in May, 1884, removed to Delta, where he is now in practice.  He married 
Miss Laura J. Jenness, a native of Maryland, February 8, 1883, and has one child – 
Russell W.  In 1879 he began the canning business in Peach Bottom Township.  In 1881 
took his father into partnership, and in 1883 consolidated thirty-one canning firms 
into the Northern Harford Packing Association, an incorporated company, with a  
capital stock of $200,000, of which he is the secretary.  He was among the 
organizers of the Delta Building and Loan Association, is a member of the York 
County Medical Society and chaplain of Esdraelon Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at South 
Delta.  His wife is a member of Slateville Presbyterian Church, while he is 
connected with the Delta Baptist Church.