Abraham Lincoln Kistler, M.D., an eminent homeopathic practitioner, residing at the northeast corner of Ninth and Linden streets, Allentown, Pennsylvania, is a native of Schuylkill county, Pa., was born Nov. 19, 1862, son of Charles M. and Elizabeth (Peters) Kistler.

The public schools of Allentown afforded the early intellectual training of Dr. Kistler, graduating from the city high school in 1879, at the age of seventeen, and from Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1883, with honors. After his graduation from this famous medical institution, Dr. Kistler located at Allentown, in which city he built up a very large and successful practice. He is a specialist on diphtheritic and fever cases and his success in these liars of practice has been phenomenal. As a diagnostician he ranks pre-eminent.

For a number of years Dr. Kistler has been on the non-resident consulting staff of the Women's Homeopathic Hospital, at Philadelphia, which is one of the leading hospitals of that large city. In 1914, the board of Trustees of the Rittersville State Hospital appointed him the resident consultant. He has membership in the following medical societies: Lehigh Valley Homeopathic Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and the American Institute of Homeopathy. His fraternal and social connections are with Jordan Lodge, No. 673, F. & A. M.; the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, No. 110; and the Livingstone Club, the leading social organization of Allentown.

Dr. Kistler married, June 21, 1893, Miss Agnes S. Huber, daughter of the late Walter P. Huber, whose full history appears elsewhere in this volume. Dr. and Mrs. Kistler are members of Bethany United Evangelical church, both are active in church work. Mrs. Kistler is one of the very active members in the missionary cause, and Dr. Kistler has been the efficient and esteemed leader of the Bethany choir since 1904. In fact, in music the doctor finds his greatest pleasure and relaxation, having been associated with the late and lamented Prof. Clement A. Marks, Musc. D., in the organization and preparation of the Enterpean Club and the Oratorio Society. Dr. Kistler had been the president of the latter organization from its birth and has taken the keenest interest in it and attended very regularly its rehearsals and all the concerts, with one exception, when sickness prevented, up to 1913, when he reluctantly resigned, owing to the death of Dr. Marks, its founder and the coworker of Dr. Kistler. The intimacy and nearness of Dr. Marks and Dr. Kistler was like unto that of Damon and Pythias, and as a result of the death of the former, the latter withdrew his connections from all musical activities except that of the church choir.