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On Jan. 1, 1854, Mr. Drawbaugh was
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married to Elsetta J .. daughter of John and Mary ( Thompson ) Thompson, whose father for several terms was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature from York coun- ty, and during the famous political episode known as the Buckshot War, was in com- mand of a company of State militia. Daniel Drawbaugh began his married life at Eber- ly's Mills, in the same house in which he was born. Here, with the exception of a few years, he has always lived, steadily labored at his inventions and won all of his fame. Here were born to him the following children : Iola O., Bella B., Maud C., and Charles H., who are living : and Emma C., Laura V., Dovan T., Naomi E., Emma C. ( 2). Ida M., and Harry W. S., who are dead. Emma C. was married to William Sheely and left surviving her one son, Roy Sheely, who has his home with his grand- parents. Charles H. is married and has one child. Carson. Within the last year Daniel Drawbaugh has removed his family to a new home in Camp Hill, which is a model of domestic comfort and ease, but he still retains his workshop at Eberly's Mills, in which he has spent so many hours at inven- tions, and in which, even in his declining years. he loves to linger.
ISAAC HARTMAN WISE has been engaged at farming and threshing in Mid- dlesex township. Cumberland county, throughout his active life, and is a prosper- ous and respected citizen of that community. He was born Jan. 12, 1858, near Orrstown, Franklin Co., Pa., son of Isaac Wise, who' was born Jan. 15, 1822, near Falling Spring, Franklin county. He resided in his native county until he came to near Carlisle, Cum- berland county, in 1876, and followed farm- ing and threshing all his life. He was a highly respected man, and a devout member
of the Lutheran Church. Isaac Wise mar- ried Mary Jane Hartman, of near Orrstown Franklin county, who was born about 1827 and died in 1897, surviving her husband who passed away Aug. 7, 1894. They had a family of seven sons and three daughters, namely: Isaac H., Jacob K., Samuel B., Sarah C., William H., Emanuel S., Adam, Joseph Elmer, Anna and Carrie.
Isaac H. Wise was about ten years old when his father moved to near Greencastle, Franklin county, and thence they removed to a location northwest of Carlisle, Cumber- land county. He received his education in the district schools of the various localities where the family lived, and always helped his father faithfully until he attained his majority, when he struck out for himself, along the same lines. Mr. Wise is a pleas- ant, frank man, cordial and friendly in his intercourse with all, and he has made many friends in business as well as in private life. By industry and application he has pros- pered, so that he may now be ranked among the well-to-do men of his township, and he deserves all the good fortune that has come to him. He is popular among all his ac- quaintances, and has attained considerable prominence as one of the workers of the Democratic party in his locality.
Mr. Wise married Miss Anna Rutz, a lady whose pleasant disposition and Chris- tian character have won her universal es- teem, and three children have blessed this union : Mary, born in August, 1879, died young; Isaac Raymond was born Dec. 8, 1884; Luther H. was born July 4, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Wise belong to the Lutheran Church.
John Rutz, father of Mrs. Wise, was born Feb. 13, 1827, in Hoxfahl, Germany, and in his twenty-fifth ycar, with others who hoped to find better advantages in this coun-
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try, sailed for America, arriving in the United States March 8, 1851. He took a position with William M. Henderson (now de- ceased), who conducted a mill in Cumber- land county, Pa., as miller, continuing with him for twenty years, after which he took the Cave Hill farm, which he conducted until his death. He was an honest, indus- trious and conscientious man, and was re- spected by all. For several years he served as school director in his district. On Dec. 28, 1853, he married Susan Swanger, whose mother was a sister of Gov. Ritner, of Penn- sylvania, and they became the parents of six children : William, Clara, Anna, Lizzie, Harry and Ida.
S. K. ABRAHIMS, who is successfully engaged in the coachi-making trade at Plain- field, has had an active career in business for one still in the prime of vigorous young man- hood. He has won success for himself by his own energy and good management, and besides his extensive business and fine home in Plainfield, he is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred acres, well improved, along the Conedoguinet creek in West Pennsboro township, Cumberland county.
The Abrahims family have resided for several generations in the county, and the various members have all been distinguished for upright lives of industry and usefulness. Enoch John Abrahims, grandfather of S. K., was born in Cumberland county, and there engaged in farming. For a while after his marriage, he lived in Carlisle, but in 1833 he returned to his farm in West Pennsboro township, and made his home there until his death in 1837. His wife, whose maiden name was Heagey, had passed away in September, 1830. Both are buried in the private cemetery of the family in West Pennsboro, about two and a half
miles west of Carlisle. There, too, lie the preceding generation of the family. To Enoch John Abrahims and wife were born children as follows: Jacob, who died at Newville, in 1899; Marie, who passed away in 1897; Hannah, who died at the age of fourteen ; Sarah, whose death occurred in Carlisle in 1901 ; Elizabeth, residing in Car- lisle; and Samuel.
Samuel Abrahims, son of Enoch John, was born March 12, 1830, in Carlisle. He attended the schools of North Middleton township, whither his father had removed, until he was sixteen years of age. At that time he went to Newville with his brother Jacob to learn the trade of wood pattern making, remaining two years, then going to Carlisle, where he finished his trade with his brother-in-law, Frank Gardner. In 1860 he found employment at Altoona, with the Pennsylvania railroad company, with whom he remained two years in a minor position, and was then made foreman, a position he retained for twenty-eight years. He died June 4, 1897, the father of the fol- lowing children : George Z., station agent at Basic City, Va .; Annie R., of Mifflins- burg, Union Co., Pa .; Henrietta, who was burned to death in Altoona, Pa., by the over- turning of a lamp; S. K., the subject proper of this sketch; and Lillie M., who died in Altoona.
S. K. Abrahims was born in Altoona in 1866, and attended the public schools there until he had reached his sixteenth year, when he began to learn the pattern maker's trade with his father, continuing with him from 1882 until 1895, having charge of the department at the last. Failing health obliged him to abandon his work, and in 1895 he located on his father's farm in South Middleton township, remaining there until 1898, when he moved to his own farm
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in West Pennsboro township, where he en- gaged in farming for but one year. his wife's strength proving too frail for the management of the work that falls to the lot of a farmer's wife. In 1899 Mr. Abra- hims began the coach making business in Plainfield, ir which he has been so success- ful. He purchased the old Strohm shops. and about three acres of land, erecting a fine modern residence. He has set out a good orchard of apples, pears, peaches and plums, and altogether has a home well worthy the care he has bestowed upon it. In his extensive shops he builds everything in the coach line, and is kept constantly busy. His workmanship is so thorough, that his trade extends for many miles beyond the bounds that might be expected.
Mr. Abrahims married Miss Ella H. Walker, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Barker) Walker, of Philadelphia. Their children are: Clifford L., who died in Al- toona, at the age of fifteen months; Cath- erine V., attending school in Plainfield; and Inola M., who died in infancy.
JOSEPH E. HOON, an extensive prop- erty owner now living retired at West Fairview, is one of the progressive citizens of Cumberland county. He was born at Halifax, Dauphin county, in 1835, of Ger- man origin.
John Hoon, his grandfather, was also a native of Dauphin county, where he learned and followed the trade of blacksmith, and also worked in East Pennsboro township, where he became the owner of sixty acres of land. His remains were interred in Dauphin county. His children were : John, Henry, George, Abel, David, Benjamin and Julian.
Benjamin Hoon, son of John and father of Joseph E., was born in Dauphin county,
where he attended school and grew to man- hood. In 1854 he located in East Penns- boro township. Cumberland county. For an occupation he followed hunting and fish- ing. He died at the age of seventy-nine years and ten months, and was buried in Zion cemetery, East Pennsboro township. His wife, Anna Meets, died when her son Joseph E. was ten years old, and is buried in Dauphin county. Their children were : John W .. who died in Missouri; Harriet, who died in Harrisburg in 1902, and is buried in Zion cemetery; Joseph E .; Sarah, of Dauphin county; Clara, who makes her home in West Fairview with her brother, Joseph E .: Mary, living in Harrisburg : Teresa, who died young; and Benjamin. of West Fairview.
Joseph E. Hoon received a limited edu- cation in the schools of Halifax, and was early thrown upon his own resources. For eight years he followed rafting between Lock Haven and Columbia, on the Susque- hanna river. During the Civil war he en- listed in Company F, 130th Pennsylvania Volunteers, for nine months' service, but was discharged early in his term of enlist- ment because of ill health. He was one of the men to lay the first rail of the N. C. Railroad in Cumberland county. Then en- tering the sand business, selling his produce to the N. C. Railroad Company, he continued in that line for forty years, win- ning a comfortable competence by steady and persistent effort. He had, at this time. a part of his grandfather's old farm in East Pennsboro township, along the river, but this was wanted by the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and he sold out. . In 1903 he came to West Fairview, and is now living retired in a comfortable and thoroughly equipped modern home he recently erected. He also built several other houses, which he rents.
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Mr. Hoon has lived a busy, honorable life. and richly deserves the comfort that he has gained for his later years. He is well liked by all who know him. Broad-minded and liberal, he is ready at all times to assist in every way all progressive movements tend- ing to benefit his town. He has traveled ex- tensively throughout the United States.
Mr. Hoon married Miss Ida Fink, ter county, Pa., but came to Cumberland daughter of William Fink, of Hogestown. Cumberland county. She died in December. 1895, and was laid to rest in Zion ceme- tery. The children born of this union were : (1) Clarence B., living in New Cumber- land, is running a ferry to Steelton; he married Emma Springer. (2) Roy T., who married Edith Holmes, lives in Yuba City. Sutter Co., Cal. (3) Joseplı E., Jr., mar- ried Florence Wagner, and had one child, Josie; he was killed in 1899, by catching his foot in a switch and being run down by a train. He was buried in Zion cemetery. Mr. Hoon has always been a stanch Repub- lican, and he is an active worker in the United Brethren Church at Fairview.
SAMUEL GLEIM, one of the repre- sentative men of South Middleton town- ship, and a man who comes of an honorable and well-known family of that name, was born April 20, 1828, son of Samuel Gleim, who in turn was born Oct. 16, 1795. Sam- tiel Gleim, Sr., was a son of Frederick Gleim, who came from Germany. Although a wheelwright by trade, he engaged in farm- ing after coming to America, until his re- tirement twenty years prior to his death, which occurred in 1851, when he was aged eighty-four years.
Christopher Gleim, a brother of Fred- erick Gleim, was the first sheriff of Harris- burg, Pa., and officiated at the first hanging -a negro. After his term of service ex-
pired, he established a newspaper, which ap- peared in both English and German. His death occurred at St. Louis, Mo., about 1845. During a long and exceedingly use- ful life, he became a prominent politician of the Democratic party, and was a scholar of no mean ability.
Samuel Gleim, Sr., was born in Lancas- . county, and settled in Monroe township. He received a common school education, and worked upon his father's farm until he was twenty-two years of age. At that time, he married Annie Hoover, daughter of Michael and Annie Hoover, and settled on the old homestead in South Middleton township. Niste children were born to them : Elizabeth, deceased; Frederick, deceased; Michael, de- ceased; Samuel; Levi, deceased; John, de- censed: William, living in Iowa, where he is a farmer; and Jacob and Annie, both de- ceased.
Samuel Gleim, our subject, was reared in Cumberland county, and attended both the public and pay schools, at the same time assisting upon the home farm. He learned the trade of weaving, and worked at it for some five years, when he went to Ohio and there learned the carpenter's trade. Re- turning to Cumberland county, he worked as a millwright for five years, and then took up his trade in South Middleton township, continuing very successfully as a builder and contractor until his retirement in 1902.
Mr. Gleim married and became the father of the following children : Henry W. married Mary Fair, and is working as a carpenter; Anna M. married William Hough; S. A. married Emma Rudolph, and is a carpenter; Rosealtha married William Meals, a farmer of South Middleton town- ship; Jacob S. is deceased; Elizabeth K. married David Deitch; Emma E. is de-
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ceased; Bertha M. is at home; Ira C. is a clerk at Mt. Holly, and is a very promising young man. Mr. Gleim is a very highly respected retired business man, and al- though not active in public affairs, votes the ticket of his party, and is interested in good government.
CLENDENIN, like nearly all family names. varies in its spelling. That preferred by the branch whose history is here written is Clendenin. although on the early records it is frequently written Glendenning, Glen- dinning and Clendining. The family is of Scotch ancestry, and in an old Bible in the possession of John Waugh Clendenin, of Wichita, Kans., it is recorded that three brothers, John. Charles and James, born in Dumfries, Scotland, came to America some time between 1730 and 1750. One of these was among the earliest settlers of the Cum- berland Valley. In January, 1743, some of the inhabitants of "ye township of Penns- borrow" petitioned the Court of Lancaster for a road, and among the names appended to this petition was that of "Jno Glendin- nen." Pennsborrow township then included all of the valley lying between the Big Spring on the west and the Susquehanna river on the east. John Glendenin, then, was an inhabitant of that part of the valley as early as 1743, and may have been there earlier. Cumberland county was formed in 1750, in January, and among the taxables of East Pennsboro township that year was John Clendenin. East Pennsboro then in- cluded all of the county lying between the Stony Ridge on the west and the Susque- hanna river on the east. After this John Clendenin appears regularly among the tax- ables of East Pennsboro at every assess- ment.
The first partition of East Pennsboro township was made in 1762, when Allen township was taken from it, after which John Clendenin continued on the tax list of East Pennsboro. In 1825 Silver Spring township was formed out of East Penns- boro and after that John Clendenin was as- sessed in Silver Spring. He was located in the extreme northwest of Silver Spring, in the angle formed by the Stony Ridge and the mountain. His land is now included in two adjoining farms owned respectively by B. F. Garman and Leonard Zeigler. John Clendenin made his will in August. 1783. and in it occurs the following passage :
"I being in possession of a piece of land held whereon I have lived for some time and made considerable improvement, I give and bequeath the same to my two sons, John and Samuel."
According to this he held the land by possession and the improvements he made upon it, and not by warrant or patent. The records show that the parts, as designated in his will, were surveyed to his sons, John and Samuel.
In 1750 Samuel Huston appears on the tax list of East Peunsboro as a freeman. In 1752 he took out a warrant for 200 acres of land, not far removed from John Clendenin. It is strongly probable that the presence of John Clendenin in that locality induced Samuel Huston to settle there, as they were brothers-in-law, John Clendenin being mar- ried to Janet Huston, a sister of Samuel Huston. John and Janet (Huston) Clen- denin had children as follows: John. Wil- liam, Margaret, Jennie, Annie, Mary, Katic, Isabella, Samuel and James. Margaret, Jennie and Katie died unmarried and while yet quite young. Annie married a man named Bradshaw, and moved to French,
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N. C. Mary married a man named Cal- hoon. Isabella married John Rankin. Sam- uel married Polly McBeth, of Wellsville, Va., now W. Va. James married Isabella Huston, who was his first cousin, a daugh- ter of Samuel Huston.
When John Clendenin and his family lived in that part of the country hostile In- dians yet abounded, and at one time the set- tlers, for their protection, erected a block house on John Dickey's land. the tract ad- joining John Clendenin's on the south. This blockhouse is spoken of in the early annals as "Dickey's Fort." It afforded some com- fort to the inhabitants, but it neither fright- ened nor pacified the Indians, and they con- tinned to make their stealthy raids in the settlements. In the woods along the foot of the mountain, not far removed from the Clendenin home, there flowed a spring which the young men of the neighborhood would salt and by that device would attract deer and make their capture easy. Upon one oc- casion, while they were lying in ambush waiting for the deer to come, they were dis- covered and fired upon by a roving band of Indians. William Clendenin, the second son of John and Janet ( Huston) Clendenin, was one of the young men, and was mor- tally wounded. The rest of the party tried to get him home, but finding it difficult, and fearing that the Indians would follow and kill all of them, they hid their wounded comrade in a fallen tree top and covered him up with branches and leaves. The next morning, reinforced and armed, they re- turned for him, but found him cold in death. The exact date of this incident cannot be fixed.
The first John Clendenin died about 1797, at the age of ninety-three years; his wife, Janet Huston, died three weeks be-
fore her husband, and their remains are in- terred in the Pine Hill graveyard, on the farm which was first owned by Samuel Hus- ton, the brother of Janet Huston.
John Clendenin, the eldest son of John and Janet (Huston) Clendenin, married Elizabeth Caldwell, who is said to have been a sister of Jolin C. Calhoun's mother. He lived upon and farmed the land bequeathed to him by his father, and in time acquired other lands in the same vicinity, and was always a prominent and enterprising patri- otic citizen. He served in the war of the Revolution with distinction. He was a meni- ber of the 6th Company. 3d Battalion. of Cumberland County Associators, and on July 31, 1777, was commissioned first lieu- tenant in James Semple's company, Col. William Chambers' Regiment. Col. Cham- bers' regiment was a part of Gen. James Pot- ter's brigade, which was one of the most active and efficient brigades in the different engagements about Philadelphia. It was in the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Chestnut Hill, and when Washington with- drew from White Marsh to Valley Forge it was sent to the west side of the Schuylkill river to protect the left flank of the army against attack from Lord Cornwallis. He rose to the position of captain, and among the members of his company whose names frequently occur on the early records of Cumberland county are Thomas Anderson. Adam Calhoun, Patrick Davidson, Christo- pher Huston, Richard Parkinson, John Poorman and Thomas Wharton. The sword, blue coat and big hat he wore in the service he bequeathed to his son John. On April 3. 1798. Gov. Mifflin appointed him justice of the peace for East Pennsboro township, which position he held until his death. He died in August, 1802. There is
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no record as to when his wife died. Their remains are buried in the Pine Hill grave- yard.
John and Elizabeth (Caldwell) Clen- denin had the following children : John, Wil- liam. Nancy, James, Isabella, Polly, Jennie, Elizabeth. Kate and Samuel. James, Eliza- beth and Kate died young. Nancy married Samuel Huston. Isabella married Francis Eckels. Polly married John Patterson. Jennie married John Woodward. Samuel married Cynthia Vassar. William, the sec- ond son, began farming in 1814. upon a farm lying along the State road in Silver Spring township, which was afterward long owned by Daniel Fought and his heirs. This farm was bequeathed to him by his father. With the exception of three years, during which he was in poor health, he lived here for the rest of his life. Along with his farm- ing he also kept a tavern, known as the "Green Tree Hotel." On March 7, 1816, he married Mary Wallace, who was fifteen years younger than he. He died in January, 1835. and was also buried in the Pine Hill graveyard. For two years after his death his wife continued to keep the hotel. In the spring of 1837 she sold it and removed to New Kingstown, and two years after- ward to New Castle, Mercer Co., Pa., where her children married and settled. Mary ( Wallace) Clendenin was a woman of re- markable memory and executive ability and ainong her relatives and friends was known as "Aunt Polly Clendenin," and is still spoken of by that title. Many of her de- scendants throughout western Pennsylvania and Ohio have become prominent in business and professional life.
John Clendenin, the eldest child of John and Elizabeth ( Caldwell ) Clendenin, was born Sept. 28, 1782, on the Clendenin an- cestral homestead in East Pennsboro, now
Silver Spring. township. He grew to man- hood in the district in which he was born and never resided outside of its bounds. His father, during his latter years, had acquired a farm a short distance down along the mountain, which afterward was long owned by Emanuel Neidich. This farm he be- queathed to his son John, and upon it he lived for many years, engaged in farming, tanning and raising hops. He had no special educational advantages in his youth, but pos- sessed rare qualities of mind and great strength of character. He early became in- terested in public affairs, and on March 2, 1813, Gov. Snyder appointed him a justice of the peace for East Pennsboro, which of- fice he continued to hold while he lived. He had much to do with settling estates and act- ing as trustee for estates, and in business of this nature his name occurs upon the public records more frequently than any other in the lower end of the county. On March II, 1847, Gov. Shunk commissioned him an As- sociate Judge, which office he filled the bal- ance of his life, and in history he is disting- uished from the other Clendenins as "Judge John Clendenin." He was a deeply pious man, was a member of the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, for many years an elder and one of the most punctual attend- ants. It is said of him that on Sunday morn- ings he would walk from his home at the North Mountain to the church, a distance of over four miles, and sweep and make the fires in time for morning services. In De- cember, 1825, lie moved to Hogestown, abandoning the tanyard on the farm. He was a man of the strictest integrity and re- spected and honored by all who knew him for the exemplary life he led.
On Dec. 31, 1807, John Clendenin mar- ried Martha Waugh, Rev. Robert Davidson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of
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Carlisle, performing the ceremony. Martha Waugh was born May 7, 1787. She was a daughter of Jolin Waugh, who lived in the same locality in which the Clendenins for three generations had lived. John Waugh was a son of James and Mary Waugh, and a member of an old and worthy family at one time numerous in Cumberland county. To John and Martha (Waugh) Clendenin the following children were born : John. Eliza- beth, Martha, Catherine. Mary Ann. Caro- line, Agnes, James and Cynthia. Elizabeth. Mary Ann and Caroline died unmarried an !! are buried in the cemetery of the Silver Spring Church. Martha married Dr. Alex- ander Young. Catherine married Henry Little, of Somerset county, Pa. Agnes mar- ried George Swiler. James married a Kier- er. Cynthia married Jeremiah Senseman. Judge Jolin Clendenin died Aug. 23. 1852. His wife, Martha Waugh, died July 14. 1859, and their remains are also interred at Silver Spring.
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