BIOGRAPHY: Louis VON LUNEN, 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. 359-60
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LOUIS VON LUNEN is a son of Charles and Henrietta (Koster) Von Lunen, and was 
born in Lunen, Prussia, on January 15, 1840. Lunen, Prussia, was also the native 
city of his parents, from which place they emigrated in 1849. On reaching 
America they located in Johnstown, this county, where Mr. Von Lunen engaged in 
the mercantile business. He followed this line of business several years, and 
then moved to the farm on which his son now lives. In 1869 he removed to Oregon, 
Holt county, Missouri, where he remained about six years, and then removed to 
St. Joseph, Missouri, at which place he died in 1876, at the age of seventy-two 
years.
     Louis Von Lunen, subject of this sketch, is located on what was formerly 
his father's farm, and has resided there since 1853. In 1887 he sold one hundred 
and ninety acres of this farm to the Johnston company, retaining about twenty 
acres. Mr. Von Lunen was for many years engaged in the dairy business on this 
farm, and for twenty-eight years ran a milk wagon in the city of Johnstown, but 
has now retired from active business, and is enjoying a much-deserved rest.
     Mr. Von Lunen's political affiliations are with the Democratic party. He 
has served as a member of the school board for a number of years.
     In 1864 he married Miss Emily, a daughter of Abner Griffith, of Stony Creek 
township, this county, and to this union have been born the following children: 
Ida, the wife of Louis Leventry, of Stony Creek township; Julia, the wife of 
Charles Leventry, of Johnstown; Ella, George, who married Jessie Leventry; Mary, 
and Louis, Jr.