Sullivan-Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....CHRISTIAN, Justin Loomis 1866 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      JUSTIN LOOMIS CHRISTIAN, M. D., an eminent physician and surgeon of Lopez,
  Sullivan county, was born near Millville, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, August
  18, 1866, a son of Jacob and Martha (Smith) Christian. His early education,
  acquired in the district schools near his childhood home, was supplemented by a
  course at the Orangeville Academy and at Millville Seminary, and later he
  successfully engaged in teaching school for a period of three years. Entering
  the office of his brother, Dr. H. S. Christian, of Millville, he commenced the
  study of medicine, and subsequently he was graduated at the College of
  Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, and the Medico-Chirurgical
  College at Philadelphia. He began the practice of his chosen profession at
  Hillsgrove, Sullivan county, Pennsylvania, in April, 1890, and removed to Lopez
  on the 15th of January, 1897. His thorough knowledge of medicine and his skill
  in surgery have won for him the confidence of the people, and he has already
  succeeded in building up a large and lucrative practice.
  
      Among his professional brethren Dr. Christian stands high, and he is now
  serving as surgeon for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, is president of the
  board of pension examiners for Sullivan county, and is special examiner for all
  of the leading insurance companies operating in the county. He is a member of
  the American Medical Association, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, the
  Lycoming County Medical Society and the West Branch Medical Association. He is
  also president of the Lopez Athletic Association, and belongs to Monroeton
  Lodge, F. & A. M., Hillsgrove Lodge, No. 305, I. O. O. F., and Washington Camp,
  P. O. S. of A., at Bernice. He has ever taken an active and commendable interest
  in public affairs, is a member of the Republican county committee and is an
  ex-member of the Republican State League.
  
      In 1898 Dr. Christian was unanimously nominated as the Republican candidate
  for member of the state legislature, and in a strong Democratic county, which
  gave that state ticket two hundred majority in this falls election, the
  popularity of Dr. Christian was shown by his election as member of the assembly
  with a majority of two hundred and thirty-three. His home town, Lopez, gave him
  nearly every vote cast, he receiving two hundred and fifty-two votes and the
  Democratic candidate only eighteen.
  
      The Doctor was married, August 20, 1893, to Miss Celia Peck; daughter of
  Homer Peck, of Hillsgrove, and to them have been born one son, Justin L. Mrs.
  Christian holds membership in the Baptist church.
  
  
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                History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                by Thomas J. Ingham
                  
                Compendium of Biography
                  
                The Lewis Publishing Company
                Chicago: 1899
  
  
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