Henry Orth was educated in the public schools, and at Capt. Alden Partridge's Military and Scientific Institute, Harrisburg; studied medicine with his father and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1851; for a number of years practiced his profession at Halifax; subsequently removing to Harrisburg, Pa.: in 1891 appointed medical examiner to the Pension Bureau at Washington City: during the war for the Union served as lieutenant of Company E, Sixth regiment, P. V. M., and captain of Company C, Thirty-sixth regiment, P. V. M.; he m., October 11, 1866, Frederica Krause, b. March 8, 1837; daughter of Judge Krause, of Norristown, Pa.