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Mussey, William Heberdon

surgeon, educator, was born Sept. 30, 1818, in Hanover. He was a medical inspector in the civil war; professor of operative and clinical surgery in the Miami Medical college, Ohio, in 1865-82; and surgeongeneral of Ohio in 1876. He died Aug. 1, 1882, in Cincinnati, Ohio. gressman, was born Dec. 21, 1831, in Northampton county, Pa. In 1860 he was elected prothonotary of his native county, and re-elected in 1863; and was for two years an assessor of internal revenue. In 1869 and 1870 he was chairman of the democratic state committee. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress; and was again a representative in the fortyseventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat. seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat.

DER, clergyman, journalist, author. Since 1882 he has been pastor of the Memorial church of Philadelphia. He is the author 1882 he has been pastor of the Memorial The Mongal; The Mikado; and The Missionary.

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