Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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Dr. Harvey D. Hockenberry, M.D. and Mary A. Smith




Husband Dr. Harvey D. Hockenberry, M.D. 1 2 3

           Born: 17 Oct 1850 - Centerville, Slippery Rock Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Hockenberry (1827-1871) 1 4 5
         Mother: Mary Jane Christley (      -Aft 1895) 4 6 7


       Marriage: Apr 1872 2



Wife Mary A. Smith 2 5

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         Father: James Smith (      -      ) 5
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1 M John Bertram Hockenberry 5

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2 M James Amos Hockenberry 5

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3 F Ella Smith Hockenberry 5

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4 M Carl Morrison Hockenberry 5

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5 F Zoe Dora Hockenberry 2 5

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6 F Amy June Hockenberry 5

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7 F Bernice Hockenberry 5

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8 M M. S. Quay Hockenberry 5

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9 F Hazel D. Hockenberry 5

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10 M Hugh DeWitt Hockenberry 5

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11 F Hannah Hazel Hockenberry 5

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         Status: Adopted




General Notes: Husband - Dr. Harvey D. Hockenberry, M.D.


He received his primary education in the public schools and took an aca­demic course at the West Sunbury Acad­emy, after which he attended lectures at the medical department of the Wooster University, Cleveland, Ohio, and after­wards took a post-graduate course at Jef­ferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He located in West Sunbury in 1879. Dr. Hockenberry was a member of the State Medical Society, and of Butler County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1893 and in 1899. He was medi­cal examiner of the State Tuberculosis Dis­pensary No. 15, and county inspector for the State Board of Health.

He received his primary education in the public schools, and afterwards took an academic course at the West Sunbury Academy. He commenced teaching at the age of sixteen years, and taught in the public schools for ten years. In the meantime he decided to enter the med­ical profession, and attended lectures at the Medical Department of Wooster University, Cleveland, Ohio, and afterwards took a post graduate course at Jef­ferson Medical College, Philadelphia. In the spring of 1879 he located in practice at West Sunbury. He was a member of the Metho­dist Episcopal church, in which he was a class leader, trustee and Sabbath school superintendent down to 1890, when the celebrated Pollard dissension took place in the church, and he with the majority of the congregation withdrew. He was thereafter an attendant of the Presbyterian church of West Sunbury. He was a member of the Butler County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1893, and was also a member of the State Medical Society. He was always a stanch Repub­lican, represented his section as a delegate to the county conventions, and took a prominent part in political affairs.

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Sources


1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 415.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1063.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1378.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1063, 1212.

5 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1379.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 390.

7 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1012, 1379.


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