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entered the office of Dr. G. E. Conrad, of Johnstown, where he began the study of medicine. In 1885, he became a student in the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which institution he graduated June 5, 1888, when he located at Salix, this county, where he has since been successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. Always interested in everything that tends to promote progress in medical science, he is a member of the Eclectic Medical assocation of Pennsylvania, also the Central Medical association, of which he is treasurer at the present time. He is affiliated in politics with the Republican party and takes an active part in local politics. For several terms he served as auditor of his township, and in the autumn of 1895 was elected county coroner of Cambria county. He is a member of Adams Council, No. 274, Jr. O. U. A. M., and medical examiner in his township for the Royal Benefit Insurance Society of New York; and for the Metropolitan Society of the same place. On September 2, 1888, he married Nannie J. Stutzman, a daughter of Tobias Stutzman of Salix, and this marriage has resulted in the birth of one child, George R., born June 28, 1892.
GEORGE C. K. ZAHM, who has been a prominent citizen of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, for more than half a century, is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bradd) Zahm, and was born in Lancaster, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1816. |
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life. Daniel Zahm, father, was born in Lancaster in the year 1792, and died in the year 1854 at Columbia, Lancaster county, where his remains now lie buried. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, our second struggle with Great Britain, and served during the latter part of the conflict under the command of Captain George A. Ambright. At the early age of sixteen he left the paternal roof to assume the responsibilities of life on his own account. For five years he was engaged in butchering in Lancaster; and in February, 1838, he went to Portage, then known as No. 2, A. P. R. road, on the old Portage railroad, and accepted a position with William Russell, Esq., who was engaged in merchandizing. He remained with him until 1844, and in January of that year went to Ebensburg, Cambria county, this State, as deputy sheriff under Captain James Murray. He served a full term of three years, and Captain Murray's successor, Sheriff Jesse Patterson, reappointed him to that office in 1847. The year following Mr. Zahm and Captain Murray engaged in merchandizing, manufacturing lumber and tanning, which they followed successfully until October, 1854. The two succeeding years were occupied as clerk to the commissions of Cambria county, and then he was again appointed deputy by Sheriff John Roberts, under whom he served until 1859. He also served in the same capacity during the years 1860 and 1861 under Sheriff R. P. Linton. Subsequently he filled various clerical positions about the court house until April, 1864, when he located upon a farm near Ebensburg, in Cambria township, which he had previously purchased. In 1863; he was elected prothonotary of Cambria county for three years. At the end of said term, in 1869, he and his son, James B. Zahm, formed a part- |
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