BIO:  J. Edwin Sprenkle, 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, Supplemental Biographies, Pg 206

J. EDWIN SPRENKLE, A.M., M.D., is a native of Hanover, and is a son of Josiah S. and Margaret 
A. (Buchen) Sprenkle, natives of Pennsylvania and Maryland.  He spent his boyhood at the public 
schools of Hanover and prepared for college by a four years’ course under Prof. Baugher.  He 
entered Franklin and Marshall College at Lancaster, Penn., in 1877, and graduated therefrom 
June, 1881, as A. B.  He entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in October, 1881, and 
graduated therefrom with honors, March 29, 1884.  He received the prize for the best original 
research in Materia Medica Laboratory.  Returning at once to Hanover he there began the 
practice of his chosen profession.  He is a member of the Chi Phi fraternity of his alma mater.