Francis Eugene Harpel

Francis Eugene Harpel, M.D., of Danville, Pennsylvania, was born in the city of Reading, Berks county, in that State, on the 15th day of June, 1844. His ancestors were among the first settlers of Berks and Montgomery counties. His father, who is a Lutheran minister, was born in Philadelphia, and his mother is the daughter of Joseph Morgan, a gentleman of honor and respectability, who long held offices of trust in Schuylkill county, Pa. His early days were spent on his father's farm, and he was educated in the common schools of Northampton and Lancaster counties, afterwards receiving a course of instruction at the State Normal School, at Millersville, Lancaster county. He was then engaged for six terms in teaching in the common schools of the latter named county, finally becoming interested in the working of marble for five or six years. In 1869, he removed to Shamokin, Pa., to study medicine with his brother W. H. Harpel, M. D., as his preceptor. His medical collegiate education was obtained at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, and he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution in the spring of 1871. He then returned to Shamokin, leaving there for a short stay at Danville, Montour county. In 1873, he went to Hamburg, Berks county, to take the practice of a physician who temporarily removed from that place, and on his return he located permanently at Danville, where he has the prospect of a successful career.

Source: Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons. Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1873, p. 321.