BIO:  John A. MELSHEIMER, 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, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 66

JOHN A. MELSHEIMER, M. D., a promising young physician of Hanover, Penn., was 
born at that place January 13, 1858.  His parents were Lucius F. and Lucretia C. 
(Forney) Meisheimer, of York County, and of German descent.  John A. is their 
only living child.  His early education he received at the schools of Hanover; 
later he attended Dickinson’s Seminary at Williamsport, from which he graduated 
as A. B., in 1877.  He then began to read medicine with Dr. Snively, of Hanover, 
with whom he studied for two years and then entered Jefferson Medical College, 
from which he graduated in 1883.  Coming back to Hanover he stayed with his old 
preceptor, Dr. Snively, for one year, and then, in April, 1884, began the 
practice of medicine under his own name.  The Doctor is very much attached to 
his profession and devotes all his attention to it.  December 23, 1884, he was 
married to Ella Trone, daughter of George E. and Amelia Trone (deceased), of 
York County.