History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . eutenant and Captain in theCivil War, first in the three months army, and subsequently threeyears in the 104th Regiiuent. Dr. Harvey was. twice married, hisfirst wife being Mary LaRue, of Doylestown, by whom he had onechild, a son, Judge Edward Harvey, of Allentown. After the deathof his wife he married Mary Rex, of Norristown, 1856, and twodaughters were born to them. Doctor Harvey was the Dean of thedruggists. The Harvey drug building was quite historic, and, whentaken down, was one o
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . eutenant and Captain in theCivil War, first in the three months army, and subsequently threeyears in the 104th Regiiuent. Dr. Harvey was. twice married, hisfirst wife being Mary LaRue, of Doylestown, by whom he had onechild, a son, Judge Edward Harvey, of Allentown. After the deathof his wife he married Mary Rex, of Norristown, 1856, and twodaughters were born to them. Doctor Harvey was the Dean of thedruggists. The Harvey drug building was quite historic, and, whentaken down, was one of the oldest frames in the borough. The upperstory had been used for various purpcjses. In the fall of 1848, theauthor opened his law office on the lower floor moving up stairs thefollowing spring, reaching his quarters by an outside pair of steps;the T. O. S. Club, a social organization of young men, had itsquarters there several years, whence it removed to Lenape Building,and dissolved about 1890, when most of the members went out into theworld to make a living and earn fame. Doylestown of the present. DR. GEORCiE T. HARVEY, DOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. 301 day, is equipped with drug stores that will compare favorably withcity establishments in the same profession, and Mr. Hulshizer is theDean. A. M. Freeman was an early dentist, if not the first inDoylestown, September i, 1823, and could be seen at the house ofMrs. Anderson, first door north of Asher Miners printing announced that the public need have no occasion to dread hisoperations, as they are attended with very litde pain or was probal:>ly one of the traveling tooth pullers, who went aboutthe country relieving men and women of troublesome molars. Atthat day there were no professional dentists, the calling not beingknown as a profession. In 1834, the newspapers of Doylestownannounced that Dr. W. F. De La Mater a surgeon dentist, latelyfrom New York, had opened an office in the Green Tree Tavern,t
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