CRANCH, EDWARD – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

     RANCH, EDWARD, Erie,
Pennsylvania, is a native of New York city, New York, born October 16, 1851. His literary education was acquired in the George Washington University,
Washington, D. C., from which he graduated with the Ph. B. degree in 1871. Later he matriculated at the Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., taking
up the study of allopathic medicine, and graduated M. D. from that institution in 1873. He took up the study of Homœopathic medicine in the New York
Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, from which he graduated with ad eundem degree in 1875. He served as hospital steward in the office of the
surgeon-general, United States army, from 1871 to 1874, and was the first resident physician in the Hahnemann Hospital of New York city, serving in 1874
and 1875. Dr. Cranch located for practice in Erie, May 12, 1875. He is a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy, the Homœopathic Medical
Society of the State of Pennsylvania, the Erie County Homœopathic Medical Society, and of the Pennsylvania state board of medical examiners.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King