My Genealogy Hound

GRANT M. KISTLER, M. D., is successfully engaged in the prosecution of the medical profession in Lansford, and although yet a young man he has gained a reputation which might well be envied by many an older practitioner. He is favorably known in this community, and we feel assured that his many friends will receive with interest this record of his life. The Doctor claims Pennsylvania as the state of his nativity, for his birth occurred in Schuylkill County in the year 1865. His father, John M. Kistler, was born in the same locality as our subject, and having attained to mature years, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Moser, daughter of Jacob Moser. The Doctor’s father died in 1891, but his mother is still living. They were the parents of a family of ten children, six of whom yet abide at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1894.

We now take up the personal history of Dr. Kistler, who in the public schools of his native county acquired his early education. His early privileges were afterward supplemented by a course of study in the Kutztown Normal School, and later he engaged in teaching three terms. The days of his boyhood and youth were quietly passed, no event of special importance occurring during that period. While engaged in teaching, he formed the determination to enter the medical profession and make it his life work. To this end he entered the office of Dr. C. B. Dreher, of Tamaqua, Pa., under whose direction he pursued a course of reading.

Subsequently Dr. Kistler entered the Hahnemann Medical College, of Philadelphia, Pa., where he took a course of lectures, and in the spring of 1889 he was graduated from that institution. He was a thorough student, and his earnest preparation well fitted him for his life-work. He keeps abreast with everything connected with the science of medicine, the latest theories and discoveries, and has met with good success in his labors. Immediately after his graduation he came to Lansford, opened an office and has since been engaged in general practice.

In October of the same year the Doctor was united in marriage with Miss Rosa V. Heintzelman, a native of Schuylkill County and a daughter of Reuben Heintzelman. Cultured and refined, she is a most estimable lady, and with her husband shares in the high regard of all who know them. The Doctor is a member of the Schuylkill Homeopathic Medical Society. In manner he is pleasant and affable, and his courteous and gentlemanly deportment and the many excellences of his character have gained him the confidence and best wishes of all with whom business or social relations have brought him in contact.