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H. W. HITZROT, physician, McKeesport, is a native of Prussia, and received a classical education at the University of Berlin. In 1867 he came to America, and located in Johnstown, Pa., where he secured a position as clerk in a drugstore, and was afterward employed in the offices of the Cambria Iron company. In the fall of 1871 he located in McKeesport, where he engaged in the drug business, in which he continued up to 1878. In the meantime he had read medicine, and in 1880 graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md. In the spring of the same year he began the practice of his profession in McKeesport, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. Dr. Hitzrot has always taken an active interest in the advancement of McKeesport and its citizens. He is president of the Union Savings Fund & Loan association, of which he was the founder, and is also a director of the Bank of McKeesport. He is surgeon of the National Tube-works and Rolling-mills, a member of the American Medical association and Allegheny County Medical society. In politics he is a democrat.