BIO:  E. P. Rohrbaugh, 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, Springfield Township, Pg 187

E. P. ROHRBAUGH, M.D., a native of Codorus Township, was born in 1858, is a son of Peter L. and 
Elizabeth (Bortner) Rohrbaugh, and is the youngest of their ten children.  The father died in 
1882, but the mother still survives.  Our subject received a good common school and academic 
education in youth, and for three years was a student of medicine under Dr. J. A. Glatfelter, 
of Seven Valleys, attending college in the meanwhile.  He graduated from the University of 
Maryland in 1881, and also took a course at Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore.  For two 
years he practiced at Glen Rock, and then located at New Paradise, where he has an extensive 
patronage.  In 1881 he married Miss Ellen Hengst, who has borne him two children:  Charles H. 
and Annie C.  The Doctor is a member of the York County Medical Society, also of the Yosemite 
Lodge of Red Men of Glen Rock, and with his wife of the Reformed Church.