Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brotherlin MD, AM, Dr. H. Hale May 30, 1859 - 
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Source: Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911
Author: Jesse C. Sell

H. HALE BROTHERLINE, M.D., A.M., one of Hollidaysburg's leading professional
men, where he has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery for a
quarter of a century, was born at Hollidaysburg, Pa., May 30, 1859. His
parents were John and Martha Gregg (Kinne) Brotherline. The Brotherline
family is of German and Welsh extraction but has been of American birth for
many generations. Thomas Brotherline, the grandfather of Dr. Brotherline was
born in Huntingdon County, Pa., where he became a successful business man,
married and reared a family of nine children and one of his sons, John
Brotherline, became the father of Dr. Brotherline of this record.
     John Brotherline was born in 1812, at Frankstown, Pa., then in
Huntingdon, now in Blair County. He became a lawyer and occupied a leading
position on the Blair County bar and also entered journalism after becoming a
resident of Hollidaysburg, ably editing and conducting the Blair County Whig,
which he made one of the leading newspapers of Western Pennsylvania. He was
active in public and useful in private life. During the Civil War he was an
upholder of the Government and served in an official position. His death
occurred in 1879, when he was aged sixty-six years. He married Martha Gregg
Kinne, who was born in Center County, Pa., and they became the parents of six
sons, two of whom survive: Henry Hale and Eric Gregg, the latter of whom is a
prominent attorney of Altoona. The venerable mother resides at No. 415
Allegheny Street, Hollidaysburg.
     H. Hale Brotherline was educated in the excellent public schools of his
native place and the academies at Bellefonte and Hollidaysburg and later took
a commercial course in the Bryant and Stratton Business College, following
which he entered Princeton College, where he was graduated in 1880. He
immediately became a student in Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia,
and from that noted old institution was graduated with credit, in 1883. Dr.
Brotherline then returned to Hollidaysburg, believing a field was open here
for a thoroughly qualified professional man, and in this belief he was not
mistaken. He has long enjoyed the confidence of the majority of his fellow
citizens and his professional skill is recognized over a wide territory. He
is identified with county, state and national medical organizations and has
served as president of the county body and has held other official positions.
For some years he was physician to the Blair County Poor Farm. Dr. Brotherline
keeps fully abreast with the times and in his practice utilizes the methods
which modern science has brought to the attention of the world, if in his
judgment they are of real value. He was reared in the Presbyterian faith and
is a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Hollidaysburg. He is a 32nd
degree Mason and is a member of Juniata Lodge No. 282, F.& A.M., at
Hollidaysburg, in which he is an official. Politically he is a Republican.

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