LEWES OLDTIMERS
DR. WILLIAM PAYNTER ORR,
JR.
Thursday evening, June
21st, 1934, the Sussex County Medical Society, under
the arrangements by Dr.
Stambaugh, rendered a banquet in the Rehoboth Country
Club on Scarborough Avenue
for Dr. William Paynter Orr., Jr. who has for the
past 50 years practiced
medical service in Lewes.
Dr. Orr was born March 14,
1857 in Lewes to William P. Orr. Sr. and his wife, former
Emily Ogden Hunter. Senior
Orr was a Lewes dry goods merchant.
He received his education
at Lewes public school and a Lewes private school, then entered
Pennsylvania Military
Academy in Chester. He later received an appointment to West Point
where he graduated. In
1884 he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the
University of Pennsylvania.
On the 21st of
September, 1905 he took Claudia Bender Beck as his wife.
Today Dr. Orr, age 77,
is president of the Delaware State Board of Health and president of
The Sussex Trust Company
with banks in both Lewes and Milton. .
Abstract: Wilmington News
Journal, Friday, June 22, 1934, by Harrison H. December 27,
2017
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