Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Cherry MD, Emil T. January 18, 1861 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

EMIL T. CHERRY, M. D.
Of the young and successful physicians of Altoona, one is Emil T. 
Cherry, a graduate of the Indiana Medical college, and surgeon of the 
5th regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania. He is a son of John W. and 
Henrietta (Brotherton) Cherry, and was born in Logan township, Blair 
county, Pennsylvania, January 18, 1861. His paternal grandfather, 
Anthony Cherry, was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and died in the 
city of Altoona. He was a farmer by occupation, and tilled the soil in a 
day when farm machinery was comparatively unknown in Blair county, and 
markets for agricultural productions were scarce and hard to reach. He 
gave his time and attention chiefly to farming, and married and reared a 
family. His wife was Susanna Kantner. His son, John W. Cherry (father), 
was born in Logan township, and received his education in the common 
schools. Leaving school, he learned the trade of cabinet marker, which 
he followed for many years in Altoona, Blair county. He has retired from 
active life, and now resides in Altoona, where he is still active, 
although in the fifty-ninth year of his age. He married Henrietta 
Brotherton, who is a daughter of John and Mary Brotherton, and to them 
was born a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters: 
Blair, Annie, Laura M., Jennie, Emil, Ella, Oscar, and Roy. Annie is the 
wife of J. S. Leisenring, a lawyer of Altoona; Laura M., married to Dr. 
Charles B. Elliott, of Altoona; Jennie (deceased); Dr. Emil T.; Ella, 
wife of Dr. Henry L. Hartzell, of Altoona; Oscar A., commission merchant 
and dealer in grocers' specialties, of the Mountain City; and John Roy, 
a law student with J. S. Leisenring. 
   Emil T. Cherry spent his boyhood days in Logan township and the city of
Altoona. He received his education in the Altoona High school, studied the
dental profession with Dr. John W. Isenberg, and practiced dentistry for two
years. He then determined upon medicine as his life vocation, abandoned
dentistry, and read with Dr. C. B. Elliott. When he had completed the
required course of reading, he entered the Indiana Medical college, of
Indianapolis, that State, and was graduated from that institution in 1882. He
served for a time in the dispensary of Indianapolis, where he also practiced
for two years. He then (1885) returned to Pennsylvania, was in active
practice for three years at Madera, Clearfield county, and at the end of that
time came to Altoona, where he has been in successful practice ever since. He
is a republican in politics, and a member of the First Baptist church of
Altoona. He is a member of Washington Camp, No. 31, Patriotic Order Sons of
America, and Altoona Lodge, No. 3,651, Knights of Honor. He enjoys a good
practice, and has served for some time as surgeon of the 5th regiment,
National Guard of Pennsylvania.
   On April 30, 1889, Dr. Emil T. Cherry was united in marriage to Lucetta T.
Isett, daughter of John D. and Margaret S. Isett, of Huntingdon county, and
their union has been blessed with one child, a daughter, named Lucetta M.

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