Dr. Henry L. Orth and Elizabeth Bridgeman Dixon

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Husband Dr. Henry L. Orth ^{1 2}

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           Born: 17 Aug 1842 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
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         Father: Edward Lawrence Orth, M.D. (1814-1861) 3 4 5
         Mother: Martha Cummings Kerr (      -Aft 1861) 3 6 7

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       Marriage: 30 Jun 1868 2

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Wife Elizabeth Bridgeman Dixon ²

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         Father: Joseph Shipley Dixon (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Sarah Edwards Bridgeman (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Henry L. Orth

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He entered Harrisburg Academy and from there went to Yale College in 1859, remaining until 1861, when at the outbreak of the Civil war he was appointed acting medical cadet in the service, and in 1863 commissioned medical cadet in the regular army, in which he remained until 1865. In May, 1866, he was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and soon after located in his native city. He was appointed in 1866 surgeon of the Northern Central Railway Company and in 1873 surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In August of the latter year he was elected visiting surgeon of the Harrisburg Hospital, and from 1873 to 1884 was president of the board of United States pension surgeons at Harrisburg. In 1884, at the organization of the Harrisburg Club, Dr. Orth was elected one of the governing committee. In 1889 he was appointed a trustee of the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital at Harrisburg, and on August 28, 1891, was elected superintendent and physician of the same.
Dr. Orth was a member of the International congresses held in 1876 and 1886 and a delegate from the State of Pennsylvania, and was president of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania in 1893.
He and his wife were members of the Market Square Presbyterian church, of Harrisburg.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 524.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 370.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 249.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 523.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 363, 370.

6 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 513.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 364, 370.