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LEWIS W. MOYER, M. D., a well known physician of East Mauch Chunk, has for some years resided in this place. He was born in Schuylkill County, Pa., in 1864, and is a son of Jacob S. and Eliza (Knittle) Moyer. His father followed the occupation of farming. Under the parental roof the Doctor was reared to manhood, and his early life was spent in farm work and in attendance at the public schools of the neighborhood, where he acquired his primary education. At the age of sixteen he embarked in teaching school, which profession he followed for four years, after which he determined to further add to his knowledge by study in the normal school in Kutztown, Pa. This plan he carried out and afterward resumed teaching, but subsequently became a telegraph operator on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. Wishing to enter the medical profession, he began study in the office of Dr. B. E. Salade, of New Ringgold, Schuylkill County, under whose instruction he continued his studies for some time.

Later Dr. Moyer entered the University of Maryland at Baltimore, and was graduated from that institution in the Class of ‘87. He at once commenced practice in Barnesville, Pa., where he spent about a year, when he came to East Mauch Chunk. Since 1888 he has been a resident of this place. For some years he was engaged in general practice, but for the past two years has made a specialty of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. To prepare himself for this line of treatment the Doctor took a special course in the Philadelphia Polyclinic.

In 1882 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Moyer and Miss Sue Sorber, a daughter of George Sorber, of McKeansburg, Schuylkill County. They are the parents of two children, Irene May and Raymond S. He and his estimable wife have many friends in this community, and bold an enviable position in the circles of society in which they move. The Doctor is President of the Carbon County Medical Society, and also belongs to the Lehigh Valley Medical Association and to the State Medical Association of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the Board of Censors of the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, Pa. Socially he is connected with the Odd Fellows’ society of East Mauch Chunk, and is a member of the United States Board of Pension Examiners of Carbon County. He is a man of deep research, well versed in his profession, and in the line of his special practice he is an expert, possessing a skill and ability which have placed him in the front rank among his professional brethren.