BIO:  GEORGE C. BORST, M. D., Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 742
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    GEORGE C. BORST, M. D. Among the successful and skillful physicians of
  Cumberland county, Pa., is Dr. George C. Borst, of Newville, who was born at
  Cottage, Huntingdon Co., Pa., March 9, 1854, son of George and Elizabeth C.
  (Johnston) Borst.

    Barnhardt Borst, grandfather of George C., was born near Strasburg,
  Germany, and emigrating to America about 1760 or '70, settled in Chester
  county, Pennsylvania.

    George Borst was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1796, and died in 1858,
  after spending his life in farming. In politics he was an old-line Whig, and
  a very active man. His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth C. (Johnston) Borst, was born at
  Spruce Creek, Huntingdon Co., Pa., in 1820, and died in 1880; she was a
  daughter of William and Elizabeth (Caldwell) Johnston. The Johnstons came of
  Scotch-Irish ancestry, the Caldwells of Irish, and with the German blood from
  the paternal side, Dr. Borst and his only sister, Mary E., now deceased, had
  plenty of good, substantial stock to draw upon.

    After the usual literary course, Dr. George C. Borst attended Logan
  Academy, at Bellwood, Blair county, Pa., and then took up the study of
  medicine with Dr. S. T. Davis, of Lancaster, Pa., and was graduated from
  Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, in 1876. Immediately after
  graduation, Dr. Borst began practice at Smyrna, Del., where he remained
  threeyears. In 1880 he located at Mt. Union, Huntingdon county, where he
  remained until 1898, and during that same year, removed to Newville,
  Cumberland county, where he is now very successfully engaged in a large
  practice, which extends all over Newville and the surrounding district. While
  Dr. Borst was a resident of Mt. Union, he was elected and served as coroner
  of Huntingdon county, for three years; there he also served on the board of
  education for six years; and he was also railroad surgeon for the
  Pennsylvania railroad for some six or seven years. At present he is medical
  examiner for many of the leading life insurance companies.

    In 1877, Dr. Borst was married to Henrietta B. Rothwell, of Smyrna,
  daughter of Gideon E. and Catherine (Collins) Rothwell. To this union were
  born two children: Lolita R., a graduate of Juniata College, class of 1898;
  and A. Gertrude, a graduate of the Newville high school. Dr. Borst is a
  member of the American Medical Association; the Cumberland county Medical
  Association; the Medical Society of Pennsylvania; and the Cumberland Valley
  Medical Association. During 1902 he served as president of the latter.
  Fraternally, he is a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge, No. 677, at Mt. Union,
  Pa., and of the Patriotic Sons of America, No. 346, Mt. Union, Pa. Both he
  and his wife are prominent members of the Methodist Church, of which he is
  steward. Not only is Dr. Borst recognized as a successful physician, but he
  is admired for his genial, courteous manner and excellent qualities which
  secure so many warm personal friends wherever he happens to be.