DR. JACOB W. SHOPE
Private burial for Dr. Jacob W. Shope, 78 years old, dean and the chief of staff of the Polyclinic Hospital, who died yesterday afternoon, will take place Monday afternoon in the Paxtang Mausoleum.
Funeral services will be held at his home, 32 South Thirteenth street, at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon with the Rev. J. Howard Ake, pastor of Stevens Memorial Methodist Church, officiating. The following staff department heads of the Polyclinic will act as pallbearers at the funeral: Dr. G. H. Widder, Dr. R. E. Holmes, Dr. Edward Kirby Lawson, Dr. C. W. Batdorf, Dr. William Tyler Douglass and Dr. H. F. Gross.
Doctor Shope's death occurred while funeral services were being held for his brother, John T. Shope, a prominent tailor Allison Hill, who died Monday evening at his home, 1936 Bellevue Road. He succumbed to the effects of an attack of apoplexy suffered last May.
Doctor Shope was a veteran of the Civil War and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, in which city he practiced for a number of years. He became affiliated with the Polyclinic Hospital upon its organization here and was a member of the Stevens Memorial Church and the Lodge No. 364, Free and Accepted Masons, of Millersburg.
Obituary published in The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) - Saturday, June 16, 1923.
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The son of John & Mary (Maesner) Shope, in 1860 he was a student (presumably) living with his family in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Harrisburg August 22, 1864, mustered into federal service there August 23 as a private with Co. C, 201st Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company June 23, 1865.
He married Margaretta J. Oswald ca. 1870 and fathered Charles R. (b. 1871), Minola O. "Minnie" (b. 01/16/74 - married Joseph Benjamin Polleck and William Thomas Reitmeyer), and Susan E. (b. 05/??/82). In 1870, he was a shoemaker living with his family in Dauphin, Dauphin County, but then attended and graduated from Jefferson Medical College. By 1880, he was a doctor living with his family in Halifax, Dauphin County. On September 9, 1907, he applied for a disability pension and received it. Cause of his death is listed as "cerebral apoplexy" with "arteriosclerosis" a contributing factor.
DR. JACOB W. SHOPE
Private burial for Dr. Jacob W. Shope, 78 years old, dean and the chief of staff of the Polyclinic Hospital, who died yesterday afternoon, will take place Monday afternoon in the Paxtang Mausoleum.
Funeral services will be held at his home, 32 South Thirteenth street, at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon with the Rev. J. Howard Ake, pastor of Stevens Memorial Methodist Church, officiating. The following staff department heads of the Polyclinic will act as pallbearers at the funeral: Dr. G. H. Widder, Dr. R. E. Holmes, Dr. Edward Kirby Lawson, Dr. C. W. Batdorf, Dr. William Tyler Douglass and Dr. H. F. Gross.
Doctor Shope's death occurred while funeral services were being held for his brother, John T. Shope, a prominent tailor Allison Hill, who died Monday evening at his home, 1936 Bellevue Road. He succumbed to the effects of an attack of apoplexy suffered last May.
Doctor Shope was a veteran of the Civil War and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, in which city he practiced for a number of years. He became affiliated with the Polyclinic Hospital upon its organization here and was a member of the Stevens Memorial Church and the Lodge No. 364, Free and Accepted Masons, of Millersburg.
Obituary published in The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) - Saturday, June 16, 1923.
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The son of John & Mary (Maesner) Shope, in 1860 he was a student (presumably) living with his family in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Harrisburg August 22, 1864, mustered into federal service there August 23 as a private with Co. C, 201st Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company June 23, 1865.
He married Margaretta J. Oswald ca. 1870 and fathered Charles R. (b. 1871), Minola O. "Minnie" (b. 01/16/74 - married Joseph Benjamin Polleck and William Thomas Reitmeyer), and Susan E. (b. 05/??/82). In 1870, he was a shoemaker living with his family in Dauphin, Dauphin County, but then attended and graduated from Jefferson Medical College. By 1880, he was a doctor living with his family in Halifax, Dauphin County. On September 9, 1907, he applied for a disability pension and received it. Cause of his death is listed as "cerebral apoplexy" with "arteriosclerosis" a contributing factor.
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