Dr. George Ashbridge Fairlamb

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Husband Dr. George Ashbridge Fairlamb ¹

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           Born: 24 Jun 1826 - Chester Co, PA 2
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         Father: George A. Fairlamb, M.D. (1787-1829) 2
         Mother: Annette Miller (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. George Ashbridge Fairlamb

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He came to Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania, at the age of ten years, and thereafter made that his home. After completing a course in the Bellefonte Academy he entered the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1848 received his degree in medicine from that noted institution. Returning home, he engaged in practice; but at the opening of the Civil war his patriotic spirit led him to join in the defense of the flag. He raised Company H, 148th P. V. I., and entering as captain was promoted later to the rank of major, and after the battle of the Wilderness became a lieutenant-colonel. He was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville, and twice at Spottsylvania in the charge made in the early morning of the 12th by the Second Corps, his right elbow being shattered by a ball, necessitating a re-section of the joint. He did not escape that worst of the fortunes of war, captivity, for the summer of 1864 he spent amid the horrors of Libby Prison. He was paroled September 12, 1864, at Annapolis, Maryland, and February 24, 1865, he was discharged from service on a surgeon's certificate of disability from wounds received in battle. After the war was over Col. Fairlamb was surgeon at the Lazaretto below Philadelphia for two years, being appointed by Gov. A. G. Curtin.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 85, 188.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 85.