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February 4, 1891, and is now deceased, Agnes, born November 16, 1893, and Emma, born August 13, 1895. DR. DAVID M. KOONTZ, a practicing physician of Johnstown, was born April 6, 1864, in Cessna, Bedford county, Pennsylvania.     He received his literary education at Pleasantville, Bedford county, Pennsylvania; studied medicine with Dr. S. G. Statler, of Pleasantville, and entered the Jefferson Medical college, of Philadelphia, from which college he graduated April 3, 1889. July 1, 1889, he located in Johnstown, whence he removed to Pittsburg [sic] for six months, going thence to Charlesville, Bedford county, where he remained three years. He then returned to Johnstown, and has lived there ever since. He is a general practitioner, but makes a speciality of catarrh and gynacology, having taken a special course in gynacology and obstetrics, at the Lying-in Charity hospital of Philadelphia. He has also taken a special course in dermatology, at the Philadelphia hospital. He fills at present the important positions of medical examiner for the New England Mutal LIfe Insurance company, of New York city, for the Progressive Endowment Guild of America, of Richmond, Virginia, for the Protective Home Circle, of Sharon, Pennsylvania, and for the Royal Benefit society, of New York city. He is a member of Rainsburg Lodge, No. 730, I. O. O. F., of Protective Home Circle, No. 138, of P. E. C. of America, of the Jr. O. U. A. M., and of the Bedford County Medical Society of Bedford, Pennsylvania. Dr. Koontz's political affiliations are with the Republican party. He married Minnie E. Anderson, daughter of

W. W. Anderson, of Cessna, Bedford county, Pennsylvania. He is a son of William and Susanna (Miller) Koontz. The family are of German extraction and settled at an early day in the state of Virginia, from which state his great-grandfather Koontz, emigrated to Bedford county, being one of the earliest settlers of that county. The long and tedious journey from Virginia to Bedford county was made in a covered wagon, in which the family lived for one year until a house could be built.     The grandfather, Henry Koontz, was born in Bedford county, and lived all his life on the farm on which he was born. The father of Dr. Koontz was born on the old homestead February 1, 1838, and is still living. He has been following the joint occupations of dairyman, truckman and farmer, at Cessna, about four miles north of Bedford. During the Civil War he was exempt from service.     He was married to a daughter of Michael Miller, who lives near Fishertown, Bedford county. He was born at Henrietta, Pennsylvania. They have three children: Henry M., deceased; David M., and George W., who lives with his father and follows the same vocation. JOSEPH P. LAYTON, who for forty years faithfully discharged the duties of foreman in the blacksmithing department of the Cambria Iron company, is a son of Henry and Helena (Pretzman) Layton, and was born in Greencastle, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1821.     His grandfather, Theodore Layton, was born in Elberfeldt, on the Rhine, and emigrated to this country in 1796. He landed at Baltimore, and from there removed to Greencastle, which he made his permanent home. Henry Layton (father) was but six months

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