BIOGRAPHY: John E. GASTEIGER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 84
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JOHN E. GASTEIGER was born in Paint township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, 
September 18, 1862. He was educated in the common schools and at the Indiana 
State Normal school, and taught nine terms in the common schools of Somerset and 
Cambria counties. On September 23, 1886, he passed the preliminary law 
examination and became a law student in the office of Coffroth & Rappel, at 
Somerset, Pennsylvania. After pursuing the necessary course of study under their 
direction he was admitted to practice in the courts of Cambria county. Wishing 
to make himself yet more proficient in his chosen profession, he pursued and 
completed the course in the Law department of the University of Michigan at Ann 
Arbor. He graduated from that university, and received the degree of LL.B. Since 
which time he has been located in Johnstown, this county.
     On October 9, 1893, he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of 
Pennsylvania.
     His political affiliations are with the Democratic party, but he has never 
sought nor held political office.