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Below is a family biography included in the book, Portrait and biographical record of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties, Pennsylvania published in 1894 by Chapman Publishing Company. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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DR. WILLIAM HERBST, of Trexlertown, a physician and surgeon, is a native of Berks County, Pa., and was born in 1833, being the son of Frederick and Catherine Herbst, the former a native of Saxony, Germany, and the latter of Berks County. Frederick Herbst, who had been a medical practitioner in Berks County for some forty years, was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He was graduated in 1828, and attended that school either in the first or the second term after it opened.
Our subject was reared to man’s estate in Berks County, where he attended the public schools. He afterward attended Williston Seminary, in East Hampton, Mass., and remained two years. At the age of eighteen he began reading medicine with his father in Berks County, and later took a three-years course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, being graduated from there in 1855. After his graduation he located at Trexlertown, Pa., beginning practice in the spring of 1855, and he has remained in that town ever since. He has built up a successful business, his patients comprising some of the best people in the town. For thirteen years he was physician at the alms house, and for seven years he filled the chair of botany at the college, his lectures being usually given on Monday afternoons, and being very interesting, as he has made a specialty of botany and is recognized as among the standard authorities in Lehigh County in that line. He is a member of the Lehigh County Medical Society, in which he is now serving as Secretary.
Dr. Herbst married Miss Ellenora Schall, a native Of Trexlertown, and a daughter of David and Mary (Rupp) Schall, who are both deceased. By the Doctor’s union were born two children: Dr. H. H. Herbst, of Allentown, this state; and Caroline E., who is attending boarding-school at Germantown, Pa.
A man of truly religious character, Dr. Herbst takes great pleasure in the active work of his church, the Lutheran. In politics he is a Democrat, and socially is a member of Lehigh Lodge No. 326, at Trexlertown, in which he has served as Master.
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This family biography is one of numerous biographies included in the book, Portrait and biographical record of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties, Pennsylvania published in 1894 by Chapman Publishing Company.
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