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EDWIN F. ESHLEMAN, M. D., is a well known and prosperous physician and surgeon of Parryville, Carbon County, which has been his home since September, 1893. He is succeeding in establishing a good practice in this place, and enjoys the patronage of many of the best families of the locality. He is a young man of marked ability, and judging by what he has accomplished in the past, has a brilliant future instore.

The birth of the Doctor occurred July 30, 1865, in Lehigh County, his parents being Jacob and Sophia (Werley) Eshleman, who are residents of Lynn Township, Lehigh County. In that township the boyhood of our subject was passed uneventfully, his time being divided between farm work and attendance at the public schools. For three terms he further pursued his studies in the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Kutztown, and subsequently he became a teacher. For six terms he had charge of schools in North Whitehall Township and in his home district. In 1890, while still engaged in teaching school, he took up the study of medicine by himself, and devoted much time and energy to this work.

The young man entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1890, and pursued a course of study for the next three years. He was graduated from that celebrated institution after completing the required course of instruction, May 2, 1893, and established himself in practice the following fall at this place. In order to keep thoroughly abreast with the times and discoveries in his profession, he became identified with the Lehigh Valley Medical Society, and subscribes to the leading medical journals. In his political belief he is a Republican, and religiously holds membership with the Lutheran denomination.

In the year 1892 Dr. Eshleman was united in marriage, in Lehigh County, with Miss Lizzie Scheirer, who is a daughter of Charles Scheirer, one of the respected and well-to-do residents of that county. To the Doctor and his estimable wife has been born a little son, to whom they have given the name of Gerald. The young couple have a pleasant home, and during their residence in Parryville have made many sincere friends, by whom they are held in high esteem.