AREA HISTORY:  Physicians, Carroll Township, 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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PHYSICIANS – Page 654

Dr. Armstrong Dill, a young man of great promise in his profession, and a 
graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, died here December 31, 1788, at the 
age of twenty-seven years.

Drs. William Wireman and Solomon Marteemie lived in the vicinity when the town 
was laid out and many years later.  Drs. Armstrong and Torbet owned a drug store 
in the village in 1826.  Dr. George L. Shearer, a man of fine intelligence, and 
great public spirit, practiced medicine in the village for fifty-two years, and 
died in 1880.  The names of other physicians who have practiced here are James 
Shearer, Ebert, Ziegler, Longecker, Free, W. H. Coover, W. W. Farrell, P. D. 
Baker, W. D. Bailey, M. L. Wolford, George P. Arnold, George Carmony and J. O. 
Hoffman.