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From: George and Pat Uffenorde <>
Subject: Re: [PANORTHU-L] New book published
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:23:35 -0800
References: <4.2.0.58.20010111091919.009736c0@mail.bucknell.edu>



Hi Listers,

The Angel of Ashland can be ordered from Amazon.com, I just ordered it
for $18.40.

pat Uffenorde












Kay Knapp wrote:
>
> Last night I was reading the Shamokin News Item from December 2000. In one,
> there was an article about a recently published book titled "The angel of
> Ashland : practicing compassion and tempting fate : a biography of Robert
> Spencer, M.D." by Genovese, Vincent J..
>
> This man, Robert Spencer, was the only doctor in Ashland in the early
> 1900's. According to the article, he was know as a compassionate doctor,
> not charging for services if you could not pay. But also know as the doctor
> to go to if a girl found herself in trouble. He performed abortions, no
> questions asked.
>
> It seems the local bookstores are selling copies of this book as soon as
> they receive them. The article in the paper indicated the author got his
> information from interviewing older residents of the area and from
> newspaper articles. I cannot tell you if names are mentioned in the book or
> not but I found this interesting and thought I would pass the information
> along for anyone who may be interested.

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