Further bio.

After having served as druggist in the Martin Pharmacy at Hall and Hamilton Streets for a few months, he was mustered into the 128th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, September 4, 1862, as a Hospital Steward. He passed through the battle of Antietam, Burnside 's Second Campaign, the battle of Chancellorsville, besides some minor engagements. He was honorably discharged and mustered out of service May 19, 1863.

He now took up the study of medicine with his uncle, the late Dr. Tilghman Martin of Allentown. After a course in the University of Pennsylvania, he was graduated in 1865. He came to Catasauqua to assist his uncle, Dr. F. B. Martin, who departed this life but three years later. He assumed full control of his uncle's practice and continued a most successful physician until he retired in the fall of 1901. He was surgeon for the Lehigh Valley R. R. Company for ten years. (source unidentified.)

M. E. HORNBECK, M. D., one of the oldest and most skillful physicians of the Lehigh Valley, is at present practicing in Catasauqua, where he has a large patronage and has been very successful in a financial way. He comes of a well-known family in this section, his father having been a prominent attorney and Member of Congress for many years. Dr. Hornbeck was born in Allentown, on the 24th of January 1842, and is the son of Hon. John W. Hornbeck, who was a native of Sussex County, N. J., where his father, Dr. Jacob Hornbeck, was also born.

His primary studies were carried on in the academy of Allentown, and when ready to commence reading medicine he entered the office of his uncle, Dr. T. H. Martin, of the above city, with whom he remained until enlisting for nine months in the Union army in 1862. He became a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, and was mustered in as Hospital Steward and with his company, which formed a part of the Twelfth Army Corps, was sent to join the Army of the Potomac. They fought in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and Mr. Hornbeck was honorably discharged in May 1863.

In the fall of the latter year our subject entered the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated from the medical department in the year 1865. Locating at once in Catasauqua, which was then a small village, he began the work of caring for the sick, in company with his uncle, Dr. F. B. Martin. They continued together until 1868, when the latter died, and Dr. Hornbeck succeeded to the entire practice. In 1884 he completed his comfortable residence at No. 225 Bridge Street, in which he also has his office.

Dr. Hornbeck is a member of the Board of Health in the city, and socially belongs to Fuller Post, of which he is Surgeon; the Lehigh Medical Society, the Lehigh Valley Medical Association and the State Medical Society. He is also connected with the Lehigh Valley Railroad Surgeons' Association. He stands very high in his profession, and has a reputation as a skillful surgeon which extends throughout this and surrounding counties.

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