description: Theodore Sterner Christ was born in Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania, on April 21, 1830. He was educated at the Lewisburg Academy and went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he earned his medical degree on March 15, 1860. He practiced as a physician and surgeon in Lewisburg as well as Chester, Delaware County (1865-1878), and Lemont, Centre County, where he died in 1910. He rose to the rank of surgeon-in-chief of the Second Division, Ninth Army Corps in the Union Army in 1864, having first enlisted on April 18, 1861. Theo Christ's war diaries as well as others are property of the Union County Historical Society and are part of a sizable collection of medical equipment, Civil War souvenirs, and personal collections donated by one of his daughters, Mary Irvin Christ Macmillan.
language: English
title: Theodore Sterner Christ: Civil War Surgeon from Union County
titlecomplete: Theodore Sterner Christ: Civil War Surgeon from Union County (Union County Heritage, V. 18)
publisher: Union County Historical Society