David Hendrlcks Bergey

Physician; born in Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Dec. 27, 1860; son of Godshalk Reiff Bergey and Susan Detweiler (Hendricks) Bergey. He was educated in public schools of Lower Salford Township, West Chester State Normal School, Ursinus College, the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated as B.S. and M.D. in 1884, and received his A.M. from the Illinois Wesleyan University, 1894. He married in Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1884, Annie Stauffer Hallman. He was Thomas A. Scott fellow in hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania, 1894-1895; assistant in hygiene in the Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Pennsylvania. 1805-1890; first assistant, 1890-1903, and assistant professor of bacteriology, University of Pennsylvania, since 1903. He was school director, 1885-1889, and secretary of the Board of Health, 1892-1894 at North Wales, Pa. He is a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, American Medical Association, National Educational Association; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, Philadelphia Pathological Society, Society of Sigma Xi, Pennsylvania German Society, Bibliographical Club of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Medical Club of Philadelphia. He is author of: Practical Hygiene, 1809 (Chemical Publishing Company); Principles of Hygiene, 1901, second edition, 1904 (Saunders & Company), and of numerous papers on bacteriology, hygiene and medicine in medical and scientific journals and transactions of scientific societies. Residence: 3965 Brown Street. Office address: Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, pp. 59-60.

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