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JOHN K. HENRY, M. D., is engaged in the practice of medicine in Mauch Chunk, and is a well known and skilled physician of that place. He is still living in his native county, for his birth occurred in Weissport, on the 29th of January, 1862. His parents were Charles and Rosetta (Kliugerman) Henry. The father was a native of Germany, and in that country acquired a most excellent education, being graduated from the University of Berlin. At length he determined to seek a home beyond the Atlantic, and crossed the wide ocean to the New World. He landed at New York City, whence he made his way to Weissport, Carbon County. When the late war broke out, he entered the Union service, and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg in 1864. His widow still survives him, and is now living with her sister, Mrs. B. Nuss, a resident of Reading, Pa.

The Doctor is the fourth in order of birth in the family of five children. In his parents’ home the days of his boyhood and youth were passed, and in the public schools of Barnesville, Schuylkill County, Pa., the greater part of his education was acquired. Afterward, however, he spent several terms in the Normal School of Kutztown, Pa. Subsequently he engaged in teaching for one term in Schuylkill County, but abandoned that profession for other pursuits. He was made Assistant Postmaster of Barnesville, which position he filled for several years. Attracted by the science of medicine and wishing to make its practice his life work, he next turned his attention to study in that direction.

Dr. Henry became a medical student in the office of Dr. L. W. Moyer, of Barnesville, under whose direction he continued his reading for two years. When that period was ended he entered the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated in May, 1890. Immediately afterward he came to Mauch Chunk, opened an office, and has been engaged in general practice up to the present time.

The Doctor is a member of the Carbon County Medical Society, and is serving as a member of the Board of Health from the Second Ward. He keeps abreast with the times, reads and studies extensively in the line of his profession, and possesses a reputation for skill and ability which might well be envied by many an older practitioner. He now has a good business, which from the beginning has constantly increased, and which yields to him a good income. Socially he belongs to Mauch Chunk Lodge No. 76, I. O. O. F.