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264	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
three years in the Fifty-seventh Regiment, New York Volunteers, in the Civil war. He was a member of the Lutheran church, and he died in 1884. He married Caroline Smith, daughter of John and Wilhelmina Smith, who was one of four children: Mary, married Berthold Nern; Augusta, married Charles E. Popp; Caroline, mentioned above; and John, deceased. The children of John and Caroline (Smith) Born were: Four died in infancy. 5. Edward W., deceased, was a sergeant in the Twenty-first Regiment during the conflicts in the Philippines, and died from the effects of malarial fever which he contracted while on deity there. 6. George M., unmarried, is a printer by occupation, and resides in Brooklyn, New York. 7. Dr. Charles E., see forward.     Charles E. Born, M. D., youngest child of John and Caroline (Smith) Born, was born at Maspeth, Long Island, New York, August 19, 1878. His preliminary education was received in the public schools of Maspeth, and Board of Regents, New York State University. He then commenced the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. V. E. Judson, of Maspeth. He next spent three years at the Long Island College Hospital and one year at the University of Baltimore, Maryland, from which latter institution he was graduated April 15, 1902. He then opened an office in Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, where he is at present (1906) associated with Dr. W. E. Matthews, at No. 425 Lincoln street, in the practice of his profession. He was city physician for a time, and also physician to the Municipal Hospital, Johnstown. He is medical examiner for the following insurance companies: American Central Life of Indianapolis; Reliance of Pittsburg; Equitable of Iowa; American Life of Pittsburg; American Casualty of Reading; North American Accident of Chicago and Fraternal Insurance. He is a member of the following fraternal organizations: Cambria Lodge, No. 538, Free and Accepted Masons; Portage Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, No. 195; Cambria Council, R. and S. M., No. 32; Oriental Commanderv, No. 61, Knights Templar, all at Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Williamsport Consistory, thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite; Jaffa Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., Altoona; Cambria County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, American Medical Association; Alpha Chapter, Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, southern jurisdiction; Baltimore University Alumni Association. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and gives his political support to the Republican party. The excellence of his work in his chosen profession has drawn much favorable comment from his fellow practitioners, and he enjoys the confidence of a large number of patients.     He married, December 24, 1899, Rosa Allendorfer, daughter of John H. and Helene (Headrick) Allendorfer, of Johnstown, who had four children: Rosa, mentioned above; Lucy, married Homer A. Wilson; Lillian, married B. Lynn Gobin; and Harry, unmarried. Dr. Charles E. and Rosa (Allendorfer) Born have one child: Mildred M., born at Brooklyn, New York, May 15, 1901.     SAMUEL E. YOUNG, general manager and secretary of the Johnstown Passenger Railway Company, and in some prominent manner identified with business interests in that city for more than thirty years, was born at Armagh, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1849, and comes of Scotch-Irish ancestors long resident in this state.     His father, Horace F. Young, was born in Central Pennsylvania, and was an early settler in Cambria county. In 1848 he removed to Armagh and two years later became partner with Absolom Thompson and Jaines Johnson in establishing and operating a foundry at that place. In 1852

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