Harold Hamilton Longsdorff (1858-1944)
Harold H. Longsdorff was born in Bellevue, Nebraska on July 28, 1858. He was the eldest child and only son of William H. Longsdorff, Dickinson class of 1856, and Lydia R. Haverstick Longsdorff. When Harold Longsdorff was still a babe in arms, the family moved back to Cumberland County, where his father opened a long-standing medical practice. He prepared for his undergraduate years at the Newville Academy and entered Dickinson College with the class of 1879. While at the College, Longsdorff was a member of Chi Phi fraternity and, like his father, was elected to the Belles Lettres Society. He graduated with his class in the early summer of 1879 and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore. He earned his medical degree in 1882.