BIOGRAPHY: Dr. David M. KOONTZ, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 221
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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 gynaecology, having taken a special course in gynaecology 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.