Notes:
Data source is the 1990 book, "Moomaw-Mumma-Mumaw-Mumaugh Genealogy" compiled by Robert Austin Moomaw (deceased).
Data source is Barbara Roberts Woltjen. E-mail BRWol@cox.net
THE GETTYSBURG TIMES October 11, 1923
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Dr. Leander A Roth, a well known physician of Spring Grove, died Wednesday at the York hospital, to which institution he was admitted last Saturday a week ago. Dr. Roth was operated upon for gall stones, from the effects of which he died. He was aged 75 years, 8 months and 15 days.
Dr. Roth was the son of the late Jonas and Barbara Roth and was born in Butler township, at Roth's Mill, and was a practicing physician in York county for the past 47 years. He was a graduate of the HygeioTherapeutic college, New York state, and the Long Island college, New York. Dr. Roth was a veteran of the Civil War having served in the one-hundred and Third regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Surviving are his wife who was before her marriage, Rosie Plank, Arendtsville and two sons,
Dr. J LeRoy Roth, Conshohocken, Pa., and Ralph L Roth, Spring Grove. One brother, Reuben Roth, Mummasburg, also survives.
Professor H Milton Roth, Broadway, and G Harry Roth, York Street are nephews and Mrs. Sara A Clare, York Street, and Mrs. Harry Schriver, Butler township, are nieces of the deceased.
Funeral services Saturday at 9:00 from his late home in Spring Grove, conducted by the
Rev. . P. Shellhamer, of York. Interment at Mummasburg.
Leander A. Roth, M. D.
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Leander A. Roth, M. D. was born in Adams County. Penn., in 1849, and is the youngest of the nine children born to Jonas and Barbara (Kauffman) Roth. The father of our subject was born in Jackson Township in 1800, was a farmer, and about 1822 removed to Adams County, where he died in 1871; his widow, Barbara Roth, died in 1884. Subject's paternal grandfather, Abraham Roth, whose grandparents emigrated from Switzerland about 1720, and located in York County, was an old settler of the county, and was a farmer and Mennonite minister and bishop. Leander A. Roth was reared a farmer and received his education at the common schools and at the normal school at Millersville three years, and afterward taught school.
In 1865 he served six months with the One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 103rd Regiment, Company C, through North and South Carolina, and elsewhere, and at the age of eighteen commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Thrall, of Burlington, N. J., remaining with him seven years--three in partnership.
He graduated from a New York medical college and filled the chair of anatomy for three years in the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic Medical College (founded in 1852 and chartered by the New York legislature in 1857), and for two years practiced in Adams County. In 1878 he located, in partnership with Dr. John Wiest, in Jackson Township, where he has since enjoyed a good practice. In 1878 he married Miss Rosa, daughter of ex-Sheriff Jacob Plank, of Adams County, and has had born to him two children: Leroy and Ralph.
[Source: York County, Pennsylvania Biographical History, John Gibson, Chicago: F.A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886. ]