BIO:  A. J. SNIVELY, 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 69

A. J. SNIVELY, M. D., was born in Franklin County, Penn., in 1884; is a son 
of John and Catherine (Keefer) Snively, and is of Swiss origin; the father 
was born near Greencastle, Franklin County, in 1799; the mother was born in 
the same county in 1802, and died in 1854; the father died in 1858.  The 
Snively family emigrated from Switzerland to America in 1707, and settled in 
Lancaster County, in the Province of Pennsylvania.  Dr. Snively was educated 
in the public schools of Chambersburg.  In 1859 he entered West Branch High 
School at Jersey Shore, Lycoming Co., Penn., and was there prepared for the 
junior class at Princeton College.  In 1863, he enlisted in Company D, 
Second Pennsylvania Infantry, and served one year.  In 1864 he was acting 
assistant-surgeon at Beverly, N. J.  He graduated from the Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College, at New York, in 1866; located at Williamsburg, Blair 
County, where he was in practice two years, and then came to Hanover in 
1867, where he has resided ever since, and has established a large and 
successful practice.  He was married, in 1875, to Miss Mazie E. Gitt, 
daughter of J. W. Gitt, of Hanover, and is the father of two children:  John 
U. and Roie I.  His is a Free Mason, and a Republican