BIO:  Daniel W. Wengart, 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, Monaghan Township, Pg 150

DANIEL W. WENGART, M.D., was born in Monroe Township, Cumberland Co., Penn., May 
1, 1830.  He was reared a farmer until the age of seventeen, when he entered the 
Mechanicsburg Institute, and a year later took up the study of medicine under Dr. 
Eckert, near Shippensburgh.  He first engaged in practice three miles west of 
Mechanicsburg, but, owing to ill-health, relinquished the profession until 1854, 
when he resumed at Mt. Pleasant, and in a short time established a remunerative 
business, which he held until his removal to Mechanicsburg to engage in the drug 
trade, in connection with practice.  One year later he returned to Mt. Pleasant 
and resecured his old patronage, which he has also increased to a flattering 
degree, having been remarkably successful in obstetrics and the treatment of 
typhoid fever.  He married, April 6, 1853, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John 
Cooper, of New Kingston.  To this union have been born three children:  Mary E., 
September 26, 1857; John C., February 24, 1859; Daniel Webster, August 31, 1861.