Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Dengler, Dr. Harry O. August 23, 1863 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  DR. HARRY O. DENGLER, the well-known veterinarian, located 
on West Main
street, adjacent to the Hotel Hartranft, 
Norristown, comes from a Bucks county
family, having been 
born in Quakertown, August 23, 1863. He is a son of
William 
H. and Catharine Y. (Sterner) Dengler, both natives of 
eastern
Pennsylvania. They had two sons and two daughters, 
of whom two are now living:
James A., of Quakertown, and Dr. 
Harry O. Dengler, the subject of this sketch.

  William H. Dengler (father) was a tinsmith by trade and 
resided at
Quakertown, carrying on business there. He died 
in April, 1898, aged sixty-six
years. His wife survived 
until April, 1901. Mrs. Dengler (mother) belonged to
the 
Lutheran church, and her husband to the Reformed church.

  Dr. Dengler
grew to manhood in Quakertown, and received an 
elementary education in its
public schools. On reaching 
manhood he engaged in the occupation of a teamster,
but soon 
abandoned it for something more in harmony with his tastes. 

  In
1884, he entered upon studies preparatory to becoming a 
veterinary surgeon, Dr.
C. J. Blank of Easton being his 
preceptor. In 1888 he graduated from Ontario
Veterinary 
College, and began practicing his profession in Norristown, 
on May
3, 1888, and has practiced there continuously since. 
Dr. Dengler is recognized
as one of the most successful 
practitioners in his line.

  February 3, 1898,
he married Miss Sarah McCoy, daughter of 
Robert McCoy. They have one son, Harry
O., Jr. Mrs. Dengler 
belongs to the Episcopal church.

  Dr. Dengler is a
member of the following organizations: 
Charity Lodge, No. 190, Free and
Accepted Masons; Norristown 
Chapter, No. 190, Royal Arch Masons; Hutchinson
Commandery, 
No. 32, Knights Templars; and the Benevolent Protective 
Order of
Elks.

  Dr. Dengler is a Democrat in politics but has never been 
in any way an
office-seeker. He has been in the fullest 
sense of the term the architect of
his own fortune. Starting 
out in life for himself when a boy of twelve years,
he 
earned the money with which he made his way through school 
and since that
time has not been dependent upon anyone for 
pecuniary aid, but by his own
industry, frugality, and good 
management has achieved success, and secured a
generally 
recognized standing among the business and professional men 
of
Norristown. He has an extensive and constantly increasing 
patronage, and his
reputation extends beyond the borders of 
the county. Ontario Veterinary
College, of which he is a 
graduate, is one of the largest and best veterinary
colleges 
in the world, and to the instruction which he there 
received, are
largely due the ability and thoroughness which 
Mr. Dengler has displayed in the
practice of his profession. 
His neatly-arranged and well equipped office
testifies to 
his qualities of order and care.

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