Biography

08/18/1866 - 02/27/1950

CHRISTIAN, Dr. Justin Loomis, a Representative from Sullivan County; born in Millville, Columbia County, Pa., August 18, 1866; graduated, Millville Seminary; M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., 1890; teacher; physician; surgeon, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company; proprietor, Lopez Drug Store; member, Republican State Committee (1896); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1898; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1900); president, Laporte National Bank; appointed, chief resident physician, Harrisburg Hospital (1927); died, February 27, 1950 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Paxtang Cemetery, Paxtang, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.