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FRANK S. PERSHING, physician, Wilkinsburg, was born in Wheatfield township, Indiana county, Pa., July 20, 1854. His paternal great-grandfather came from Alsace, Germany, in 1745. His grandfather Frederice settled in Indiana county about 1775. He died in 1822. Daniel, his oldest son, now in his eighty-fourth year, has always lived on the farm where his father settled. In 1825 he married Eliza Hice, who became the mother of ten children; she died in 1848. In 1850 he married Martha Fisher, and she was the mother of three sons. The eldest is a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, now located in Mount Pleasant, Pa., and Daniel, the youngest, is a prosperous merchant at New Florence, Pa. Two sons of the first family, Joseph N. and H. H., are Methodist ministers. Dr. Pershing was reared on the farm, and attended Mount Union College, Ohio. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in the class of 1878-79, and at once began to practice at Wilkinsburg. He came here without means, and by his skill and energy has achieved uncommon success. He is now building a fine brick residence on Penn avenue, and owns other property in the borough. He is chairman of Barnes Brothers Laundry company, limited, which employs over a hundred people in Pittsburgh. He is a republican in politics and a Methodist in churchmanship. September 3, 1885, he wedded Kate Lillian, daughter of Adam Endly, of Mansfield, Ohio.