. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . and its adjacent territory, ranks as first in pointof length of local practice among the physicians ofAltoona. He was born in Cambria County, Dec. 13,1828, his father being Francis X. Christy, a well-known farmer in that section. The latter died invSeptember, 1876, aged eighty-four. Dr. Christysgrandfather, Archibald Christy, was boni in Phila-delphia in 1700, and fought under Wasliingtonthrough the Revolution, having entered the army atthe age of eighteen. At the close of the war he set-tled in Butler County, and died in Cambria Count
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . and its adjacent territory, ranks as first in pointof length of local practice among the physicians ofAltoona. He was born in Cambria County, Dec. 13,1828, his father being Francis X. Christy, a well-known farmer in that section. The latter died invSeptember, 1876, aged eighty-four. Dr. Christysgrandfather, Archibald Christy, was boni in Phila-delphia in 1700, and fought under Wasliingtonthrough the Revolution, having entered the army atthe age of eighteen. At the close of the war he set-tled in Butler County, and died in Cambria Countyin 1S41, aged eighty-one. His son, Francis X. Christy(who in 1819 married Susan, daughter of Francis , of Western Maryland), participated in thecampaign of 1812-14. He was a member of the fa-mous company of grenadiers raised for the BlackKiick service by Rev. D. A. Gallitzin, of Loretta, Cam-bria Co. There was no man in the company undersix feet, Christy the smallest, being six feet one inch,while the captain measured six feet six inches. Fran-.
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