BIO: Harvey Clifton BRIDGERS, M.D., Blue Ridge Summit, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 382
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HARVEY CLIFTON BRIDGERS, M. D.

  H. C. Bridgers was born September 2, 1885, in Northampton County, N. C., the 
son of Alvin S. and Mary E. (Coggings) Bridgers.  He received a high school 
education and then studied medicine, graduating M. D. in 1915 from the 
University of Maryland, Baltimore.

  After graduation Dr. Bridgers took special post-graduate work for eight months 
in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat at Johns Hopkins Hospital and at 
the University of Maryland Hospital, after which he had one year of special work 
with Dr. V. F. Cullom in diseases of the chest.  Dr. Bridgers registered in 
Franklin County in 1918 and since then has practiced medicine at Blue Ridge 
Summit.  He has been a member of the Medical Society from 1919.

  Dr. Bridgers married in 1916, Miss Elizabeth Nordt of Baltimore, Md.