BIO: JOHN A. SOLLENBERGER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 242-243
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    JOHN A. SOLLENBERGER, D. D. S., who is located at No. 105 North Hanover
  street, in Carlisle, was born in York county, Pa., Dec. 26, 1847, son of
  Joseph M. and Mary Ann (Helsel) Sollenberger, natives of Cumberland and York
  counties, respectively.
    
    Dr. Sollenberger was reared to farm life and received, his early education
  in the common schools, later going to normal school, and in the fall of 1869
  he removed to Fulton county, Ill., where he taught school at first. In the
  following August he entered a general store at Astoria, where he was employed for
    
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  two and one-half years. He again turned to school teaching, but after a term
  resumed clerking, and was employed in various capacities until 1874, when he
  entered the office of Dr. T. B. Atkinson, at Astoria, Ill., where he took up
  the study of dentistry, continuing his association with Dr. Atkinson for
  eight years. In the fall of 1883 he returned to Pennsylvania, and took a
  course of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1884 he located
  in Mt. Holly and began the practice of his profession. After seven months he
  removed to Mooredale, and remained two years, at which time he settled in
  Carlisle, and has since been engaged in building up a large and very
  prosperous practice.
    
    In 1872 Dr. Sollenberger was married to Miss Fannie Brubaker, daughter of
  Jacob Brubaker, who was born in Lancaster county, but was brought to
  Cumberland county when a child. They have a family of seven children: Guy A.
  married Clara Hartzel, and they reside in Carlisle, where he is a silk and
  carpet weaver; Clarence R. is property man for the King Dramatic Opera Co.;
  Charles M., who resides at Steelton, Pa., in the employ of the Steelton Co.,
  married Sarah Bolinger, and has three children, Roy, Lawrence and an infant;
  Grace E. is at home; Harry resides at Steelton, where he is bookkeeper; Annie
  V. is at home; Maud E. is at home. Dr. Sollenberger is one of the successful,
  substantial men of Carlisle, and both as a professional man and a private
  citizen he is honored and respected by a large circle of acquaintances and
  friends.