F. H. Van Valzah, M.D. and Jane R. Van Valzah

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Husband F. H. Van Valzah, M.D. ¹

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           Born: 18 Feb 1847 - Millheim, Centre Co, PA 2
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         Father: Robert F. Van Valzah (1817-1874) 1
         Mother: Sarah W. Forster (      -1871) 1

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       Marriage: 23 Jun 1880 2

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Wife Jane R. Van Valzah ²

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         Father: John A. Van Valzah (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 M Robert Van Valzah ²

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           Born: 1 Nov 1882 2
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2 F Sarah Van Valzah ²

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           Born: 2 Nov 1884 2
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3 M James W. Van Valzah ²

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           Born: 6 Jun 1889 2
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General Notes: Husband - F. H. Van Valzah, M.D.

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He was born at Millheim, Centre County, Pennsylvania, but as his parents removed to Aaronsburg during his childhood his education was begun there. When he was thirteen the family settled at Spring Mills, and as the schools there did not offer an advanced course he was sent to Tuscarora Academy, in Juniata County. While there he enlisted, on July 6, 1864, at a call for one-hundred-day men, in Company H, 195th Penn. V. I., and served about four months, doing guard duty on the B. & O. R. R. west of Harper's Ferry, the greater part of the time being spent at Martinsburg, West Virginia. In 1865 he entered Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and in the spring of the following year he began his professional duties under his father's guidance. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in March, 1870, and a few months later began practicing at Loganton, Pennsylvania, where he spent eighteen months. He then located at Potters' Bank, Centre County, but in November, 1874, he moved to Spring Mills to take the practice left vacant by his father's death. While he was thoroughly progressive in his ideas he was notably cautious and conservative in practice, and he met with signal success. Financially, he ranked among the leading capitalists of Penn's Valley.
He was a Republican, and although he was a stanch defender of the doctrines of the G. O. P., he was not an office seeker. Socially, he belonged to the Masonic lodge at Centre Hall, and to Samuel Shannon Post No. 282, G. A. R., at the same town. He was also a member of the Pennsylvania State and the Centre County Medical Societies.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 82.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 83.