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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.

Earnhardt 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 three years. 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.