HARRY B. KNAPP, M. D. – PHYSICIAN & SURGEON [Wife also a Physician].
Lykens and Wiconisco are fortunate in the possession of a corps of medical practitioners that for thorough scientific attainments, wide practical experience, and natural aptitude, rank second to none anywhere. Prominent among them, and one who has built up a remarkably large practice in a comparatively short time, is Dr. Harry B. Knapp. Dr. Knapp is a native of Minnesota. Having a natural inclination for his profession, he first became a trained nurse, and followed that profession at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek Michigan. It was while there he became interested in the health foods, made famous the world over by the Battle Creek institutions, and the doctor was sent to Europe to introduce these foods to the physicians and sanitariums of Great Britain. Dr. Knapp finally studied medicine and graduated from the American Medical Missionary College, of Chicago, with honors. Soon after this he went to Philadelphia, where he was made superintendent of the Pennsylvania Sanitarium, and the three years spent there gave him an invaluable experience for the general practice of medicine and surgery.
On June 21st, 1927, he came to Wiconisco and took up the practice of the late Dr. Christman, and since has not only developed one of the largest practices here, but has acquired an enviable reputation as a surgeon and a conscientious physician, having been remarkably successful in every one of his surgical operations. Dr. Knapp is a member of the American Medical Association, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the Philadelphia and Dauphin County Societies. He is a resident of Wiconisco and is today regarded as one of the leading and most successful physicians in this section of Dauphin and Schuylkill Counties. Dr. Knapp’s wife is also a graduate physician, but confines her work entirely to office practice, especially for women and children.
_____________________________________________
Article & photo from a special Souvenir Edition of the Lykens Standard, March 13, 1908, via Newspapers.com.
Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.