Husband George Hemminger, M.D. 1
Born: 8 Sep 1840 - South Middleton Twp, Cumberland Co, PA 2
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Father: John Hemminger ( - ) 1
Mother: Eliza Heagy ( - ) 1
Marriage: 11 Feb 1871 2
Wife Annie Powell 2
Born: - Maryland
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Father: Col. Samuel R. Powell ( - ) 2
Mother: Mary A. Kelly ( - ) 2
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1 M George R. Hemminger 2
Born: 25 Apr 1872 - Newville, Cumberland Co, PA 2
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General Notes: Husband - George Hemminger, M.D.
He grew up on the farm, and received the rudiments of an education in the neighborhood schools. In 1861 he entered Pennsylvania College as a freshman, and one year later passed examination for the sophomore class. In August, 1862, he, in company with seven of his classmates, went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where, on the 16th of that month, they enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. George was assigned to the Middle Department with duty at the Relay House, Maryland, where he remained until June 16, 1863. He was in the Second Brigade, Third Division and Corps (in June), escorting stores to Washington, D. C. From the 1st to the 5th of July he was at Wapping Heights, Va.; July 23, he was at Kelly's Ford; November 7, at Brandy Station; November 8, at Mine Run; from November 26 to December 2, at Locust Grove. In March, 1864, he was in the Sixth Corps, same brigade and division; May 5 and 7 he was at the battle of the Wilderness; at Spottsylvania, from the 12th to the 19th of May; Cold Harbor, 1st to 3d of June; at the Trenches, Bermuda Hundred, June 17; destruction of the Weldon Railroad June 22, 23; Monocacy, Md., July 9; February 17, 1865, in prison at Danville; next to Libby prison, Richmond, until March 25, when paroled and returned to the regiment April 10. He then marched to Danville, and thence with the army of Gen. Sherman to Washington, D. C. where he was in the grand review June 8, 1865. Returning to Carlisle, he entered Dickinson College, where he pursued his studies one year; then read medicine under Dr. J. J. Gitzer; later he passed one term in the medical department of the University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and entered the College of Medicine at Detroit, Michigan, from which institution he was graduated in 1869. After his graduation he located at Newville, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and there practiced his profession six years. From there he went to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and formed a partnership with his old preceptor, Dr. J. J. Gitzer, with whom he remained until the autumn of 1875, when he returned to Carlisle, and there engaged in the practice of medicine. He was a member of the Cumberland County Medical Society, and a member of the A. F. & A. M.