Atkinson, Louis E
physician, lawyer, congressman, was born April 16, 1841, in Juniata county, Pa. He was educated in the common schools and at Airy View and Milnwood academies;. studied medicine, and graduated at the medical department of the University of the City of New York, March 4, 1861. He entered the medical department, United States army, Sept. 5, 1861; served as assistant surgeon of the first Pennsylvania reserve cavalry, and surgeon of the one hundred and eighty-eighth Pennsylvania infantry, and was mustered out in December, 1865; was disabled while in the army, and, being unable to practice medicine, studied law; was admitted to the bar in September, 1870, and has practiced law since that time. He was elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty-second congresses.