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LEWIS W. MOYER, M. D, a well known physician of East
Mauch Chunk, has for some years resided in this place. He was
born in Schuylkill County, Pa., in 1864, and is a son of Jacob
S. and Eliza (Knittle) Moyer. His father followed the occupation
of farming. Under the parental roof the Doctor was reared to
manhood, and his early life was spent in farm work and in
attendance at the public schools of the neighborhood, where he
acquired his primary education. At the age of sixteen he
embarked in teaching school, which profession he followed for
four years, after which he determined to further add to his
knowledge by study in the normal school in Kutztown, Pa. This
plan he carried out and afterward resumed teaching, but
subsequently became a telegraph operator on the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad. Wishing to enter the medical profession, he
began study in the office of Dr. B. F. Salade, of New Ringgold,
Schuylkill County, under whose instruction he continued his
studies for some time.
Later Dr. Moyer entered the University of Maryland at
Baltimore, and was graduated from that institution in the Class
of '87. He at once commenced practice in Barnesville, Pa., where
he spent about a year, when he came to East Mauch Chunk. Since
1888 he has been a resident of this place. For some years he was
engaged in general practice, but for the past two years has made
a specialty of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. To
prepare himself for this line of treatment the Doctor took a
special course in the Philadelphia Polyclinic.
In 1882 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Moyer and Miss Sue
Sorber, a daughter of George Sorber, of McKeansburg, Schuylkill
County. They are the parents of two children, Irene May and
Raymond S. He and his estimable wife have many
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friends in this community, and hold an enviable position in
the circles of society in which they move. The Doctor is
President of the Carbon County Medical Society, and also belongs
to the Lehigh Valley Medical Association and to the State
Medical Association of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the
Board of Censors of the Medico-Chirurgical College of
Philadelphia, Pa. Socially he is connected with the Odd Fellows'
society of East Mauch Chunk, and is a member of the United
States Board of Pension Examiners of Carbon County. He is a man
of deep research, well versed in his profession, and in the line
of his special practice he is an expert, possessing a skill and
ability which have placed him in the front rank among his
professional brethren.