A biographical sketch of Dr. Arthur A. Horn that appeared in the Gratz Sesquicentennial Book of 1955:
A Silver Anniversary – DR. ARTHUR ALBERT HORN
In October of the Gratz Sesquicentennial Year, Dr. Arthur A. Horn, our local physician will have completed 25 years in the practice of medicine in the community.
Born in a neighboring torn of Hegins in the year 1906, but reared in the Heckscherville Valley, Schuylkill County, he graduated from Cass Township High School in June 1923. The ensuing September, Dr. Horn matriculated in the Pre-Medical College of Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia. Four years later the degree of Bachelor of Science was conferred upon him by that institution.
In June 1929, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Hahnemann College of Philadelphia. Doctor Horn was the second youngest member of the graduating class that year, of which there were seventy-two.
The next twelve months were spent in a rotating internship at the Woman’s Homeopathic Hospital in Philadelphia. That training qualified him for the State Medical Board examinations, and in September 1930 he was licensed to practice Medicine and Surgery in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
On 10 October 1930, he opened his office in Gratz, having been introduced to the town by Ellis Tobias, a former resident, but now living in Tremont, Pennsylvania.
For eighteen years Dr. Horn conducted the Well Baby Clinic in Gratz, assisted by Mary Girard, R.N., now deceased, then Beulah Anspach, R.N., and followed by the former Jane Chester, R.N.
In the year 1931, on 24 January, he married Helen E. Felsburg, a daughter of George Felsburg, of Minersville, Pennsylvania. His wife is an alumnus of West Chester State Teachers College, having graduated in the year 1931. There was born of that marriage, on 4 April 1944, a daughter Cynthia Diane Horn.
Dr. Horn is serving out his eleventh year as member of the Gratz Board of Education. He and his family are always interested in the welfare of the community, its schools and organizations.
Approximately 950 babies were brought into the world under his direction. On this anniversary he wishes he had twenty-five dollars to give to each one of them.
Doctor Horn is a member of the medical fraternity, Phi Alpha Sigma, Fraternal Order of Moose, Millersburg Lodge, Dauphin County Medical Society, Pennsytlvania State Medical Society, the Homeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and the National College of Chest Physicians.
He enjoys good music and plays the violin since childhood, having studied at the Braun School of Music in Pottsville.
His wife is a good pianist, and for the future, Cynthia is receiving instructions on the piano and French horn.
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