BIO: William B. O'REAR, M.D., Waynesboro, 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 201
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WILLIAM B. O'REAR, M. D.
W. B. O'Rear was born at Alexandria, Va., in 1874 and was graduated M. D. in
1897 from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City.
Dr. O'Rear registered in Franklin County in 1920 and since has practiced
general medicine in Waynesboro, Pa. He was a member of the Medical Society
since 1921 and is a member of the Waynesboro Hospital Staff and Designate
Examiner, U. S. V. B.
Dr. O'Rear was commissioned Surgeon in the U. S. Medical Service on September
1, 1898. He saw service on the transports during the evacuation of American
troops from Cuba and Porto Rico. He was successively Surgeon on the Dixie,
Kilpatrick and Sumner and Surgeon-in-Charge on the U. S. Army Transport Wright
which conveyed officers for duty to the Philippines, via Suez Canal. His next
assignment was Sanitary Inspector of Bubonic District, City of Manila. After
the control of the plague he was transferred to the 20th U. S. Infantry and saw
action with this regiment. Later he was Surgeon with the 30th Infantry until
his discharge at San Francisco, Calif., in February, 1902, as Captain and
Assistant Surgeon, U. S. V.
Dr. O'Rear was then in private practice in Savannah, Georgia, member of
Savannah Hospital Staff until the beginning of the World War in 1917, when he
was commissioned Captain Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. A., and saw service at Ft.
Oglethorpe, Ga., and Deming, N. M., with Base Hospital, 34th Division, U. S. A.,
and was honorably discharged February 28, 1919.
Dr. O'Rear married March 22, 1908, Mrs. Susie Langley, nee Volk, of Savannah,
Ga.