BIO:  L. A. Roth, 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, Jackson Township, Pg 120

L. A. ROTH, M.D., was born in Adams County, Penn., in 1849, and is the youngest 
of the nine children born to Jonas and Barbara (Kauffman) Roth.  The father of 
our subject was born in Jackson Township in 1800, was a farmer, and about 1822 
removed to Adams County, where he died in 1871; his widow, Barbara Roth, died in 
1884.  Subject’s paternal grandfather, Abraham Roth, whose grandparents emigrated 
from Switzerland about 1720, and located in York County, was an old settler of 
the county, and was a farmer and Mennonite minister and bishop.  L. A. Roth was 
reared a farmer and received his education at the common schools and at the 
normal school at Millersville three years, and afterward taught school.  In 1865 
he served six months with the One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Infantry, Company C, through North and South Carolina, and elsewhere, and at the 
age of eighteen commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Thrall, of Burlington, 
N. J., remaining with him seven years – three in partnership.  He graduated from 
a New York medical college and filled the chair of anatomy for three years in the 
New York Hygeio-Therapeutic Medical College (founded in 1852 and chartered by the 
New York legislature in 1857), and for two years practiced in Adams County.  In 
1878 he located, in partnership with Dr. John Wiest, in Jackson Township, where 
he has since enjoyed a good practice.  In 1878 he married Miss Rosa, daughter of 
ex-Sheriff Jacob Plank, of Adams County, and has had born to him two children:  
Leroy and Ralph.