My Genealogy Hound

MILTON R. PETERS, M. D., a prominent physician and surgeon of Boiling Springs, is a native of Adams county, Pa., where he was reared, and received his education in Union Seminary, in which institution he expected to prepare for the ministry. Later, however, he decided to take up the study of medicine, and entered the office of J. H. Marsden, M. D., of Sulphur Springs, Pa. In 1878 he entered Hahnemann College of Medicine at Philadelphia, from which he graduated March 10, 1881. After receiving his degree he located at Hanover, Pa., and from there moved to Gettysburg, where he remained a year, in 1892 locating at Boiling Springs. Since coming here he has established an excellent practice, and is justly regarded as one of the leading physicians of this part of Cumberland county. Dr. Peters is a member of the Hahnemann Institute of Philadelphia, and he is very popular socially. He has erected a pleasant home for himself and family, where their many friends are cordially welcomed.

In 1882 Dr. Peters married Miss Jennie Virginia Collins, of Adams county, a daughter of John W. Collins. Dr. and Mrs. Peters have three children, Hale L., Lydia and Bender. They are members of the U. B. Church and very prominent not only in Boiling Springs, but throughout the county.

Dr. Peters comes of good German stock. His great-grandfather, Ulrich Peters, came from Germany and settled near Gettysburg, where he was engaged in horticulture, raising fruit trees. His family was a large one, and nearly all of his sons followed in his line of business. Some of the sons went West and established large nurseries at Troy and Carlisle, Ohio.

John Peters, the Doctor’s grandfather, was a nurseryman in Adams county. He married a Miss Group, by whom he had the following family: William, a farmer of Adams county; Daniel; David, who married and moved to New Carlisle, where he established a large nursery; George, a nurseryman at Troy, Ohio; John, a nurseryman of Uriah, Cumberland county; Eliza; Susan, married to Rev. Mr. Schaff; Rachel, Mrs. Haskell; Matilda, Mrs. Eppleman; and Catherine, Mrs. Hewitt.

Daniel Peters, the father of Dr. Peters, died in 1891, aged sixty-seven years. During a number of years he followed farming and milling, and was an experienced machinist. He was also a local preacher of the Evangelical Church, and was a devout Christian man. His wife, whose maiden name was Bender, died when about forty-five years of age. She bore him seven children: Catherine, wife of C. E. Porter, a nurseryman of Bendersville; John, a minister of the Presbyterian Church, stationed at Benardsville, Texas; Milton R.; Fillmore, of Centerville; Clayton A., a professor of biology at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Anna E., married to P. D. Richwine, of Boston, Mass.; and one child that died in infancy. This family is well represented in the several professions as well as in business circles, and all have been successful. Drs. William, George and John C. Peters, of New York City, the latter the author of several medical works, belong to the same family. The Rev. M. C. Peters, author and lecturer of Philadelphia, also belongs to this branch of the Peters family.