BIO:  JACOB H. DRAWBAUGH, M. D., Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 615-616
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    JACOB H. DRAWBAUGH, M. D., one of the leading physicians and surgeons of
  Shiremanstown, was born Aug. 11, 1859, in Monaghan township, York county.
  When four years of age his father removed the family to Upper Allen township,
  Cumberland county, where our subject had an opportunity to attend school.
  Later he became a student at the Mechanicsburg Institute, and still later of
  the Cumberland Valley Normal School at Shippensburg. He then entered the
  Baltimore School of Physicians and Surgeons, and was graduated with the class
  of 1886.
  
    Dr. Drawbaugh entered upon the practice of his profession at Robesonia,
  Berks county, where he remained until 1898. For the following nine months he.
  practiced at Bowmansdale, Pa., and then located at Shiremanstown, where he has
  established a large and lucrative practice, and is highly regarded also by his
  brother physicians.
  
    In 1887 Dr. Drawbaugh married Miss Amanda Kunkel, of Lisbon, Cumberland
  county, a daughter of Jacob S. and Sarah (Laird) Kunkel. One child, Claire,
  has been born to this union.
  
    Dr. Drawbaugh is a member of the Berks County Medical Society, the
  Cumberland County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society,
  and the Har-
  
    616  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
  
  risburg Academy of Medicine, taking a deep interest in their work and aims.
  
    Samuel O. Drawbaugh, the Doctor's father, was born in Dover township, York
  county, and was a miller by occupation. He married Elizabeth Hamaker, of the
  same county, where both died. They had these children: Dr. Jacob H., of this
  sketch; Daniel, of York Haven, married Flora Flory; John, a physician,
  druggist and dentist, a graduate of the National University at Washington, D.
  C., and who took special lessons and work under Dr. Kol Penski, of Vienna,
  Austria, the greatest throat specialist in the world, afterward practicing in
  Washington, and later in Asheville, N. C., where he died, his wife, formerly a
  Miss Iseman, also being deceased; Tempest, who married a sister of the late
  Dr. John A. Kilmore, and both are deceased; Eli, who has been a teacher in
  the public schools in Steelton, Pa., for the past fifteen years, and who
  married a Miss Reider Samuel, of Shiremanstown, who married Emma Myers; and
  George, who died in infancy.
  
    Dr. Drawbaugh is descended from Revolutionary stock in both paternal and
  maternal lines. Both the Drawbaughs and the Hamakers came to America with
  Baron Steigel in 1730. The latter became known as a pioneer iron and glass
  manufacturer in the colonies. Members of the Drawbaugh and Hamaker families
  assisted in the Revolutionary war, and the latter family has been conspicuous
  in military life from then to the last representative in the Philippines. The
  Drawbaughs have fallen little short of the same patriotic record.
  
    A pleasant little family incident has come down as a testimonial to the
  grace and beauty of the maternal side of the family. A Miss McGreggor, who
  later became the great-grandmother of our subject, was one of a delegation of
  beautiful and charming maidens selected through Dauphin county to go to a
  point along the march of General Washington, as he made his way from Mt.
  Vernon to New York, for his inaugural, and was particularly noticed by the
  great chieftain as she strewed flowers in the path of his coach. Later we
  find this beauteous maiden the wife of Christian Hamaker, a learned man who
  could read the Bible in three different languages. After her death her
  husband married a Miss Black, and a survivor of this union is Amos Hamaker, a
  resident of Stevens Point, Wis. Daniel Scott Hamaker, maternal grandfather of
  Dr. Drawbaugh, was educated at Yale, and was a man of learning and prominence.