BIO: John H. KOONS, M.D., Waynesboro, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 182
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JOHN H. KOONS, M. D.
1854-1920

  John H. Koons was born in 1854 near Waynesboro, Pa.  He received his education 
in the common schools and at Zeigler's private school in Greencastle, Pa., and 
then read medicine with Dr. Miller at State Line.  After the usual course of 
lectures he was graduated M. D. in 1888 from Jefferson Medical College.  He 
located at once in Waynesboro, taking the offices formerly occupied by Dr. E. A. 
Hering.  After a short time he removed to Rohrersville, Md., and from there went 
to Ringgold, Md.  In 1891 he went to Seattle, Wash., and in 1898 he went to 
Alaska, joining the gold rush to that territory.  This venture was not a success 
and in 1900 Dr. Koons returned to Waynesboro and followed the profession here 
until the time of his death in 1920.  His stories of Alaska were interesting and 
thrilling to the extreme.  Dr. Koons was for a time a member of the Medical 
Society, resigning in 1915.

  In 1890 he married Hermie A. Carbaugh.