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MITCHELL WALTER, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of medicine in South Bethlehem, is one of the rising young physicians of this section. He is a gentleman of marked enterprise and much ability, and an honorable and remunerative career lies before him in the field of medicine. He was born in Farmersville, Northampton County, this state, May 2, 1867, and is the son of Dr. B. C. Walter, also a prominent physician of Northampton County, and of whom further mention is made in the sketch of his son, William Walter, on another page in this volume.

The subject of this sketch was the third youngest in the parental family and received his primary education in the public schools of his native place. Later he attended Easton Academy, from which he was graduated in 1887. He then began teaching school, which occupation he followed for two years. In the mean time he devoted his spare moments to the study of medicine, it being his ambition to follow in the footsteps of his honored father and become a physician. In 1890 he entered Jefferson Medical College, where he took a course of two years. He then became a student in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated with honors in the Class of ‘93.

Previous to this, however, Dr. Walter had taken a course in the Pennsylvania Hospital and followed special studies in the Blockley Hospital. He also took a course in a hospital devoted to the treatment of contagious diseases. Looking about him for a suitable location, he decided to open an office in Farmersville. This he did, engaging in practice there until 1894. On the 20th of February, that year, he came to South Bethlehem, where he has an office at No. 23 East Fourth Street.

Being so well equipped for his profession, the Doctor has built up a lucrative practice, and is classed among the skilled surgeons and successful physicians of this part of the county. Religiously he is a devoted member of the Lutheran Church. As one of the representative citizens of South Bethlehem, it gives us pleasure to present to our readers this brief sketch of his life.