Henry Wilson Storey's History of Cambria County, V.III, p.119

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HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. 119

and was Graduated from that institution with the degree of M. D. in 1882. Having come to the degree, Dr. Fichtner began his professional career at Cranesville, West Virginia. He lived there until 1888, and then came to Johnstown, where he has since practiced and where he has come to be recognized as one of the leading physicians of Cambria county. His location was in the suburb known as Morrellsville, now the nineteenth ward of the city, where he has built up an extensive and profitable practice. As a general practitioner Dr. Fichtner possesses and displays many of the distinguishing traits of his father. He is a close student, a careful diagnostician and pathologist, and is well versed in general therapeutics. While in college he gave especial attention to the study of ophthalmic and general surgery, and availed himself of the advantages of the clinics in those departments. He also made special courses in diseases of the throat and chest and in gynecology, and now so far as his general practice will allow he specializes along those lines.
    In connection with a busy professional life Dr. Fichtner has been and still is identified with various public institutions of Johnstown and Cambria county, and has shown himself an efficient public servant. He was the first surgeon appointed on the staff of Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital, and was president of the Morrellville Board of Health previous to the incorporation of that borough with the city of Johnstown. He is now a member of the Johnstown Board of Health, the Cambria County Medical Society, medical examiner for several life insurance companies, and also is serving in the municipal office of school controller. In politics he is a Republican. Dr. Fichtner is a member of Morrellville Lodge, No. 50, I. 0. 0. F., a charter member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, member of the Mystic Chain, the Foresters of America, and of other social and benevolent organizations. In 1891 he organized the Morrellville Building and Loan Association, an organization which has performed the beneficent work of providing homes for many families of small means.
    In 1881 he married Latilla M. Mayer, by whom he has four children: Ellsworth Fichtner, a student of medicine in the Western University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburg; Annie E. Fichtner, a graduate of Emerson School of Oratory, Boston, Massachusetts; Sarah Fiehtner, who was educated at Irwin Female Seminary and Conservatory of Music; and Rachel R. Fiehtner.

    SWOPE FAMILY. Joseph Swope, Great-great-grandfather of the present youngest generation of that branch of the Swope family intended to be treated in this sketch, was born in Alsace, that much disputed territory which has alternated between French and German sovereignity for the last half century and now is a part of the possessions of the German Emperor. However, during the entire life of Joseph Swope the territory of Alsace was under the dominion of France.
    Joseph Swope had neither brothers nor sisters, and this is true also of his son, Aloysius Swope, of whom and whose family this sketch is intended particularly to treat. Thus it will be seen that it is not a numerous family in its early history. Little is now known of Joseph Swope except that he was a farmer and a man of peace, that in the spring of 1815 he was impressed to service in Napoleon's army and with his team and many of his neighbors was carried away. He returned to his home after the terrible battle of Waterloo, but was then broken in health and died in the fall of that year. His wife was Mary Gerber, who also was a native of Alsace. After the death of her hus-

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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	119
and was Graduated from that institution with the degree of M. D. in 1882. Having come to the degree, Dr. Fichtner began his professional career at Cranesville, West Virginia. He lived there until 1888, and then came to Johnstown, where he has since practiced and where he has come to be recognized as one of the leading physicians of Cambria county. His location was in the suburb known as Morrellsville, now the nineteenth ward of the city, where he has built up an extensive and profitable practice. As a general practitioner Dr. Fichtner possesses and displays many of the distinguishing traits of his father. He is a close student, a careful diagnostician and pathologist, and is well versed in general therapeutics. While in college he gave especial attention to the study of ophthalmic and general surgery, and availed himself of the advantages of the clinics in those departments. He also made special courses in diseases of the throat and chest and in gynecology, and now so far as his general practice will allow he specializes along those lines. In connection with a busy professional life Dr. Fichtner has been and still is identified with various public institutions of Johnstown and Cambria county, and has shown himself an efficient public servant. He was the first surgeon appointed on the staff of Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital, and was president of the Morrellville Board of Health previous to the incorporation of that borough with the city of Johnstown. He is now a member of the Johnstown Board of Health, the Cambria County Medical Society, medical examiner for several life insurance companies, and also is serving in the municipal office of school controller. In politics he is a Republican. Dr. Fichtner is a member of Morrellville Lodge, No. 50, I. 0. 0. F., a charter member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, member of the Mystic Chain, the Foresters of America, and of other social and benevolent organizations. In 1891 he organized the Morrellville Building and Loan Association, an organization which has performed the beneficent work of providing homes for many families of small means. In 1881 he married Latilla M. Mayer, by whom he has four children: Ellsworth Fichtner, a student of medicine in the Western University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburg; Annie E. Fichtner, a graduate of Emerson School of Oratory, Boston, Massachusetts; Sarah Fiehtner, who was educated at Irwin Female Seminary and Conservatory of Music; and Rachel R. Fiehtner. SWOPE FAMILY. Joseph Swope, Great-great-grandfather of the present youngest generation of that branch of the Swope family intended to be treated in this sketch, was born in Alsace, that much disputed territory which has alternated between French and German sovereignity for the last half century and now is a part of the possessions of the German Emperor. However, during the entire life of Joseph Swope the territory of Alsace was under the dominion of France. Joseph Swope had neither brothers nor sisters, and this is true also of his son, Aloysius Swope, of whom and whose family this sketch is intended particularly to treat. Thus it will be seen that it is not a numerous family in its early history. Little is now known of Joseph Swope except that he was a farmer and a man of peace, that in the spring of 1815 he was impressed to service in Napoleon's army and with his team and many of his neighbors was carried away. He returned to his home after the terrible battle of Waterloo, but was then broken in health and died in the fall of that year. His wife was Mary Gerber, who also was a native of Alsace. After the death of her hus-