Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brotherlin MD, AM, H. Hale May 30, 1859 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

H. HALE BROTHERLIN, M.D., A.M., 
a popular young physician of Hollidaysburg, who has been in practice here
since 1885, is a son of John and Martha Gregg (Kinne) Brotherline, and was
born in this city, May 30, 1859. The Brotherlines are of German descent.
Thomas Brotherline (grandfather) was a native of Huntingdon, this State, but
removed to Frankstown at an early day, where he was engaged in the butchering
for many years, and where he died in 1833, aged fifty years. He married Sarah
Davis, by whom he had a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters.
      John Brotherline (father) was born at Frankstown, in what is now Blair
county, in 1812. He received a good common school education, after which he
studied law, was admitted to the bar of this county, and for many years
practiced his profession in the courts of this and adjoining counties. He
excelled as a counselor at law. He was also proprietor and editor of the
Blair County Whig, which was a warm and zealous advocate of the Whig party,
and was recognized as a political force in that day. Its editor was as ardent
and eloquent in his support of the party measures on the stump as in the
columns of his journal. He also took an active part in every enterprise
calculated to advance the interests of the county, or develop its latent
resources and possible industries. He lived in Hollidaysburg nearly all his
life, and died at his home here in 1879, in the sixty-sixth year of his age.
He was eminently a self-made man, having achieved success in the face of
adverse circumstances, by untiring industry and a perseverance which
eliminated all considerations of failure. He served as paymaster, with the
rank of major, during the Civil War, and was a prominent man in this county
for many years. He was a life-long member of the Presbyterian church, and was
always active in support of the various interests of his church. He married
Martha Gregg Kinne, a native of Centre county, this State, who still survives
him. To them was born a family of six sons: James Irwin, John, Henry Hale,
Davis Willard, Eric Gregg, and Ner. Brotherlin--E. Gregg and H. Hale being
the only ones now living. Mrs. Brotherline is of Scotch-Irish descent, a
devoted member of the Presbyterian church, and resides in a comfortable and
handsome home in the city of Hollidaysburg. Her father was Henry Hale Kinne,
he having married Sarah Gregg, a daughter of Andrew Gregg, who was a United
States Senator.
      H. Hale Brotherlin grew to manhood in Hollidaysburg, and received a
good English education in the public schools of this city. He afterward
attended the Hollidaysburg Academy, took a course of training in Bryant &
Stratton's Business college, and then entered Princeton college, from which
he was graduated in 1880. He immediately matriculated at the Jefferson
Medical college of Philadelphia, and three years of earnest and faithful
study was graduated from that institution in 1883. Since 1885 he has been
actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Hollidaysburg, in
which he has been a very successful and has attained a high standing. He is
still an earnest student of his profession, and keeps thoroughly posted on
the experiments and discoveries constantly being made in the field of medical
science.
      Dr. Brotherlin is a member of the County and State Medical societies,
and also the Academy of Medicine at Altoona. He has served as president of
the County Medical society, and is now a member of its examining board. He
has been physician of the Blair county alms house for several years. He is a
member of the Presbyterian church at Hollidaysburg, and of Juniata Lodge, No.
232, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is now junior warden. He is also a
thirty-second degree Mason. In politics he is a stanch republican, giving
that party a hearty support on national and State issues, but inclined toward
independence in local politics.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Denise

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