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History of Cambria County, V.2

1222 HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY

1868, Doctor Brallier married Lucy M., daughter of the late John and Mary Kinports of Cherry Tree Borough.
    In 1870 Doctor Brallier became a member of the Indiana Medical Society, and in 1876 was made a permanent member of the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the American Medical Association, representing Indiana County in the former society once, and in the latter twice. Doctor Brallier filled several offices in the Indiana County Medical Society, and was its president in the year 1879. In April, 1880, the Brallier family removed to Chambersburg, Pa., and in 1881 Doctor Brallier associated himself with the Franklin County Medical Society. In 1882 he was appointed physician to the Franklin County jail and in the same year was also elected to the office of school director in Chambersburg. Doctor Brallier's death occurred in Chambersburg in 1889.
    Dr. Emanuel and Lucy M. (Kinports) Brallier were the parents of eight children: 1. Stanley Allen Emanuel, married (first) Emma Hillock Pfau, (second) Mary Gertrude Brannon; 2. Anna May, married Robert E. Young; 3. Lulu Veronica, married John Howard Shores; 4. Dr. John Kinports, married Bess Morehead; 5. and 6. twins, Emma Jane and Amanda Maggie, who died in infancy; 7. son, who died at birth; 8. Dr. James Porter, killed in an automobile accident in 1914.
    Dr. Stanley Allen Emanuel Brallier was educated in the Chambersburg public schools and graduated from the Chambersburg Academy in the class of 1888. He then entered Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa., where he remained until February, 1889, the time of his father's death, when upon the advice of his physicians he was sent west among the Rocky Mountains, to Rawlins, Wyo. Here he began to study medicine, and associated himself with a cousin, Dr. Emanuel Stuver, in the drug business. After several years in the mountains, he returned East with renewed health, and entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which institution he graduated in 1894. While at the College of Pharmacy, he clerked in the drug store of Henry A. Newbold at 41st and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, but after his graduation he assumed the position of manager and chief prescription clerk in the drug store of Rush P. Marshall, at 16th and Race streets, Philadelphia. Finding the life in the drug store too confining, he entered upon his deferred medical course at Medico-Chirurgical College in the fall of 1896, and graduated from there in 1899 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After successfully passing the


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