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Below is a family biography included in the book, Portrait and biographical record of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties, Pennsylvania published in 1894 by Chapman Publishing Company. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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DR. WILLIAM ERDMAN, a physician and surgeon, and also an eye and ear specialist of Macungie, is a native of Lehigh County, Pa., and was born March 13, 1838. He is the son of AarOn and Anna (Breinig) Erdman, of Lehigh County, Pa., and was reared in Macungie. He received his education in the public schools of Macungie and later at Tremont Seminary, at Norristown, Pa. Still later graduating from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, he located for practice at Macungie, formerly Millerstown, Pa., and has been very successful in his profession ever since. In 1874-75 he took a special course on diseases of the eye and ear in the University Medical School, and also under Dr. Strawbridge, a specialist at Philadelphia, after which he returned to his practice at Macungie.
Dr. Erdman served in the Lower House of the State Legislature during the sessions of 1881 and 1883, and has served as Burgess of Macungie Borough for one term. As a member of the Lehigh Medical Society he has served as President, Secretary and Treasurer of the order. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity at Allentown, Pa., of the Lehigh Valley Medical Association, of which he has been President, and also of the American Medical Association. In politics he is a stanch Democrat.
Dr. Erdman was united in marriage to Katie S. Mohr, a native of Lehigh County, Pa., and daughter of Levi B. Mohr, of Macungie, Pa. They are the parents of the following children: Linnie M., Lulu L. and Howard B.
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