BIO: Edmund W. MEISENHELDER, M.D., 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 Borough, Pg 35

EDMUND W. MEISENHELDER, M.D., was born in Dover, York Co., Penn., February 22, 
1843, is a son of Dr. Samuel and Josephine S. (Lewis) Meisenhelder, and of 
German and English extraction.  His father was born near Dover, York Co., Penn., 
in 1818, and mother in York County in 1823.  His paternal grandfather was Jacob 
Meisenhelder, an early settler of Dover Township.  His paternal grandfather died 
about the year 1843.  His father, after practicing medicine for thirty-five 
years in this and Adams County, died in 1883.  Our subject was educated at 
Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, and was graduated with highest honors in 
1864.  He began the study of medicine under his father in 1865, attended 
lectures at Jefferson Medical College and was graduated in 1868.  He began 
practice at East Berlin, Adams County, and after three years removed to York.  
In 1870 he married Miss Maria E. Baughman, a native of York County.  Three 
children are the result of this union: Robert L., Edmund W. and Samuel B.  Was a 
member of Company A, (Pennsylvania College Company) Twenty-sixth Regiment 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, under the "emergency" call of Gov. Curtin, during the 
rebel invasion of 1863.  In 1864 the Doctor entlisted in Company D, Two Hundred 
and Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers; was commissioned second lieutenant in 1865, 
and was discharged May 30, 1865.  Dr. and Mrs. Meisenhelder are members of the 
Lutheran Church.