BIO:  Edward F. WAGNER, 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, York Borough, Pg 52

DR. EDWARD F. WAGNER, son of Ernst and Barbara (Fahs) Wagner was born June 26, 
1860, in York, Penn., where he was reared.  He attended the public schools of 
York, passed examinations for the high school, but left York and went to 
Northampton County, attended one year Nazareth Hall Cadet School, at Nazareth, 
Penn., then went to the Moravian Theological Seminary, at Bethlehem, Penn.  (His 
course here was in the classical department.  In 1878 he returned to York and 
began reading medicine with Dr. J. W. Kerr.  After three and one-half years he 
went to Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, and graduated from this 
institution March 29, 1884, and at once began the practice of medicine, at York, 
Penn.  Dr. Wagner graduated with honorable mention for his thesis.