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LOUIS D. RADZINSKY, physician, McKeesport, was born in Geneva, Switzerland, April 12, 1835, a son of Alexander Julius and Charlotte (De Lisle) Radzinsky, former of whom is a grandson of Gen. Count Johannes Paul Radzinsky (originally, in 1764, spelled Ratchintzky, and modified to Radzinsky during the general’s exile), of Poland, one of the national leaders with Kosciusko. The parents of Louis D. emigrated to America in 1848, located in New York city, and in 1856 removed to Orange, N. J. The subject of this sketch received a classical education at St. Anthony’s College, Geneva, and after a thorough course of instruction in medicine in New York city, graduated from the medical department of the University of the City of New York in 1859. He immediately began the practice of his profession in the same city. At the outbreak of the rebellion he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Thirty-sixth regiment N. Y. V., and resigning in December, 1861, passed the medical examination for regular army corps. He was A. A. surgeon U. S. Army from 1862 to 1864, and assistant surgeon of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers from 1864 to 1865; was surgeon of the 104th U. S. Colored regiment, 1865-66; A. A. surgeon U. S. Army 1868, and city physician of health district No. 4, Charleston, S. C., in 1869, and was in practice in that city until 1870. In 1871 he began practice in Brooklyn, N. Y., and has been a member of the Kings County (N. Y.) Medical society since 1873. He located in McKeesport in 1875, where he has since been in active practice. He has been a member of the G. A. R. since 1868; in politics he is a democrat.