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In politics Mr. Kline is a strong Repub- lican. He has been at various times a super- visor of the township in which he resides, but as a rule has steadily refused to accept any other offices. Although his maternal ancestors were Quakers, he did not follow in their footsteps, but is an earnest consist- ent Christian, and a member of the denomi- nation known as the Church of God.
In 1858 Mr. Kline was married to Mary Traver, who died in 1878. In 1882 he mar- Sadie Fritz and she died in 1892. On August 19. 1903, he married Laura Shettel. He has five sons: John G., buyer and manager for Gabel & Co .. Altoona, Pa. : James A., head of the firm of Kline, Sickle & Co., Harrisburg; Herman E., engaged in farming ; Jacob R., engaged in the stock yards in Mechanicsburg; and Andrew J., buyer for Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
ABRAM ELLIOTT. The first of the Elliott family to settle in Pennsylvania was Robert Elliott, who came from Ireland in 1737 with his wife Mary, and children : Ed- ward, Thomas, William, Robert, Grisel (who became the wife of Joseph McMin). Mary (who married John Irwin), Margaret (married William Clark), Ann, David and James. They made their home in what is
now Middlesex township, Cumberland county.
James Elliott was four years old when brought to this country. the youngest of his family. He married Margaret Sanderson, and settled on what is still the family home- stead. where they lived in what was really a block house, a necessary protection in those days against the Indians. Here all their chil- dren were born except the youngest son. John. father of our subject, who was born in the log house built about 1781, and which is yet standing. James Elliott died Nov. 8. 1822, and his wife died Jan. 23, 1823, at the age of seventy-eight years. Their chil- dren were as follows: (1) George was a farmer of Middlesex township, then North Middleton township, and later removed to Venango county, Pa., where he died at the age of eighty years ; he was born in 1772. He married Nancy Kinslo. (2) Martha, born in 1776, died March 13, 1824. She married James Giffin, who died in 1833, at the age of sixty-two years. (3) Margaret, born in 1779, married Robert G. Young, and died Jan. 6, 1847, at the age of sixty-seven years. eleven months, twelve days. (4) Eliz- abeth. born in 1780, died in 1860, at the age of seventy-nine years, seven months and twenty-two days. (5) Mary became the wife of John Goudy, and moved to Butler county, Ohio, where she died in 1827 at the age of fifty-seven years. (6) John, the youngest, was the father of our subject.
John Elliott, father of Abram, was born Oct. 14. 1782, not long after his father had built and moved into a new and more home- like structure. He was brought up on the farm. and early inured to farm labor, but nevertheless was given a good education for that early day. On the death of his father the estate was divided and he received his due share, to which he added, by purchase,
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some mountain land. He married Miss Mary Lamberton, and after a long and pros- perous life passed away June 25. 1856. His wife died seven years later. Sept. 29, 1863, at the age of seventy-nine years, six months and nineteen days. Mrs. Mary L. Elliott was born March 10. 1784, in Middlesex township on what is known as the John Reed farm. where the Lamberton school stands. Her father. James Lamberton, and a brother. Simon. came from the North of Ireland. and the brother lived on the farm now owned by H. C. Babble. James Lam- berton was a soldier in the Revolution. He had considerable talent and for many years was known as Squire Lamberton. He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church at Car- lisle. His death occurred in Middlesex township a few years prior to 1827, while his wife. Mrs. Ursula ( Wood) Lamberton, survived him until 1840. also dying at an advanced age. Ross Lamberton, a brother of Mrs. Elliott, moved with his wife and family to Oberlin, Ohio. to educate his chil- dren there. John and Mary ( Lamberton) Elliott had children as follows: (1) Mar- garet. born Sept. 14, 1816. became the wife of John Holmes, and died Feb. 11, 1881, at the home of our subject. (2) James L., born May 2. 1818, died March 18, 1884. He married Catherine Ann Williams, and was a farmer in West Pennsboro township. (3) Mary, born Dec. 11, 1821, became the wife of Richard C. Woods; she died Aug. 9. 1888. (4) John, born Oct. 14, 1823, died in January, 1900; he was a farmer and merchant, and died at Columbus, Neb., where he was living retired. He married Mary J. Smiley. (5) Abram is our subject.
Abram Elliott was born on his father's farm in Middlesex township June 13. 1827, and was educated in the country schools. From boyhood he worked on the farm, fol-
lowing the methods of those early days, when wheat was threshed out on the barn floor with a flail. His wife was Miss Mar- garet Ann Davidson, who was born in New- ville, Cumberland county, but grew up in Eden, Delaware county, Ohio, where her parents had gone during her childhood. Her father, John Davidson, died there, and her mother, Mrs. Eliza ( Wilson) Davidson, re- turned with her daughter to Pennsylvania. A son Wilson went to the war, and after- ward made his home at Findlay, Ohio, where he died. Mrs. Margaret A. Elliott was called from this world in 1875, leaving her husband with six children, as follows: ( 1) Mary Elizabeth was born Feb. 2. 1867. (2) Anna Bell, born Oct. 17, 1868, is the wife of Dr. Joseph Laverty, of Williams- port, Pa. (3) John Wilson, born Sept. 15. 1870, married Minnie Winters, of East Pittsburg, where he is engaged in an elec- trical business. He is a graduate of the Valparaiso Normal School, and an ex- teacher. (4) Edgar Hudson, born Jan. 29, 1872, is a stenographer in Philadelphia, Pa. (5) Margaret Gertrude, born Oct. 4, 1873, is the wife of R. C. Kane, a farmer of Cum- berland county. (6) Charles Herbert, born May 4. 1875, died Aug. 3, 1875. For his second wife Mr. Elliott married Miss Amanda Rogers, who was born in Middle- sex township, daughter of Matthew Brady Rogers and Amanda Dugal, his wife, the latter of French extraction. Mr. Elliott's children by his second marriage were as fol- lows: Abraham Lester, born July 15, 1882, died Sept. 22, 1882; Tillie Stuart, born July 10, 1883, is at home, a graduate of the Ship- pensburg Normal School, class of 1902; she has taught school two winters since.
Mr. Elliott united with the Second Pres- byterian Church in his early manhood and has been one of its workers and supporters
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ever since. His wife is also a member of that church, although she was brought up in the United Brethren teachings. In public affairs Mr. Elliott manifests the interest of a true citizen, and has been more or less prominent in township matters. A lifelong Democrat, he has served as township auditor and has been for many years a school direc- tor, a position he still fills. He has been a successful farmer. a capable official and a man known for his upright conduct, and en- joys a high standing in his community.
JOHN L. KUTZ, who is successfully engaged as a farmer, stock raiser and butcher in Middlesex township, Cumberland county, Pa .. lives near Carlisle Springs.
Mr. Kutz is a son of Joseph Kutz and a grandson of Gideon Kutz. Joseph Kutz married Elizabeth Keihl, daughter of George and Mary Keihl. and the following children were born to them: Jolin L., George E., Joseph J., Mary A .. Eliza E., Sarah J. and Anna M. The family is of German descent, and the great-grandparents when they came to this country settled east of Carlisle. They became large land owners.
John L. Kutz was born Feb. 3, 1852, in South Middleton township, and in 1853 his parents moved to North Middleton. He lived with his parents and grandparents up to the age of twenty-four years, and received a common-school education at the Werts schoolhouse. In 1874 he bought part of his grandfather Keihl's farm, and in 1877 he built a house and barn. In 1880 he bought another tract of land, to which he and his family moved in 1881. In 1882 they moved back to the first home. In 1885 Mr. Kutz bought the Miller farm, in Middlesex town- ship, to which he moved with his family in 1887, and there they still reside. In 1893 he purchased the Dale and Bosler farms, in
Middlesex township, and in 1897 he bought the Wingeret farm, in Silver Spring. That year (1897) his big barn in Middlesex town- ship, with all its contents, was destroyed by fire, and he rebuilt it in 1898. In 1899 he bought the Gill farm in Silver Spring town- ship; in 1901 he bought the Schuchman property, and also the Ruggles tract, and in 1902 he bought the Fisher lot. During this time he erected four large barns. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Kutz has, by steady industry and good judgment, prospered in his material affairs. He has been willing and self reliant and believing that God helps those who help themselves, has tried to work out his own advancement without other aid than his natural abilities.
In 1876 Mr. Kutz married Miss Alice Lightner, of Perry county, and they have had three children: Clara M., born Aug. 9. 1877; John H., born Aug. 20, 1881 ; and Lila E., born Oct. 30, 1891. They are all in good health and living happily at home at this writing. In political belief Mr. Kutz is a Democrat, and in religious connection the family are members of the Lutheran Church.
JOHN S. WEAVER, postmaster of Mechanicsburg, and one of the prominent citizens and self-made men of this locality, was born Dec. 14, 1852, in Rapho township, Lancaster county, son of John and Cather- ine (Smith) Weaver.
John Weaver, the father, was born Jan. I, 1817, in Germany, and coming to Amer- ica, settled near Manheim, Lancaster county, about 1840. His death occurred Jan. 14, 1874. In Germany he married Catherine Smith, who was born there in 1818, and who died in 1881. They were members of the German Lutheran Church. They had a family of four children, viz: Samuel, a to-
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bacconist of Camden, N. J. : Catherine, de- ceased: John S .; and Henry, of Carlisle. In politics John Weaver was a Democrat. He was an honest, industrious man, and although he never accumulated a large prop- erty, he left his family the heritage of an honorable name.
John S. Weaver grew up on his father's farm in Rapho township, three miles north of the village of Manheim, in Lancaster county, and there he attended the public schools and assisted in farm work. At the age of sixteen years he located in Mechanics- burg. a poor but ambitious boy, and entered the shop of John Rupp, to learn the cabinet- making trade, at which he worked three years. Going then to Altoona, he remained there three years in the employ of the Penn- sylvania Railroad. Later he worked for a time at his trade at Frostburg, Md., but in 1877 he returned to Mechanicsburg. and opened up a tobacco store. This he con- ducted until 1881, when he became pattern maker for the firm of Hauck & Comstock in their machine shops, and he remained with them until 1890.
In the latter year Mr. Weaver was ap- pointed postmaster under the administra- tion of President Harrison, which was a very emphatic way in which to stamp him as a man of character and reliability. . This office he admirably filled until Dec. 31. 1893. when he was made deputy clerk of the Courts of Cumberland county. On Feb. 6, 1898, Mr. Weaver was re-appointed post- master of Mechanicsburg, and on March 3, 1903, was again reappointed by the present administration. He is justly considered a fine official, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of both political parties.
On June 7, 1899, Mr. Weaver married Mrs. Ella Fowler, widow of Frank Fowler, of Camden, N. J. Mr. Weaver has been a
consistent Republican all his mature lite, and has been very prominent in local and State politics. Fraternally. he is a Mason, and he also belongs to the K. of P., No. 83, ot Me- chanicsburg, and to the Knights of Malta. Since 1879 he has been a member of the Washington Fire Company, of this borough, and has filled all its offices. Religiously, he is a member of the Church of God. Strictly a self-made man, he has honestly won all he possesses, and is a fine type of the American citizen whose roots were nurtured by Ger- man ancestry, possessing the characteristics of both nations.
JOHN SOURS. a worthy descendant of one of the oldest pioneers of Cumberland county, was born Sept. 23. 1828. on his present farm, which was purchased in the latter part of the eighteenth century by his grandfather. John Sours, Sr. He is a great- grandson of Adam Sours, or Sears, as the name was originally written.
Adam Sears came from Germany prob- ably between 1745 and 1750, and located in York county, Pa., remaining there, however, but a few years. His wife's name is not known, nor the date of their marriage, or whether it occurred before or after coming to America. They had three children, John, Katie and Paul. Adam Sears (or Sours, as he was called in this country) was a molder by trade, as were both his sons, and during the Revolutionary war he and his son Paul were kept busy making shot and shell at a furnace called Mary Ann, in Maryland. At this time the son Paul was about cighteen or nineteen years old. The site of the fur- nace was afterward occupied by the State Arsenal, and was a beautiful place. The son John (mentioned below). married Eliz- abeth Bush. Katie married William Mullen, and died in Dickinson township, about four
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miles from Bendersville. Paul married Magdalene Trone, of Hanover, York coun- ty, Pa., and resided on a farm of 400 acres, about two miles from Bendersville, Adams county, Pa. In their family were ten chil- dren: John, Adam, Abraham, Jacob, Thomas and Paul. and Katharine, Mary, Sally and Betsy.
Adam Sours, son of Paul Sours, and grandson of Adam Sears, married Mary Dickson, daughter of John and Margaret Dickson, of Dickinson township, Cumber- land county, Pa. John Dickson was of Scotch-Irish descent. His wife, Margaret Hazlett, came from Belfast, Ireland. They were Presbyterians. John Dickson entered 300 acres of land, partly in Dickinson town- ship, Cumberland county, and partly in Huntington township, Adams county, Pa. They were two or three times driven from the farm by the Indians, and fled to a stone church at Hunterstown, Adams county, for safety. They were regular attendants at that church and rode there on horseback, twelve miles. John Dickson died at his home on the farm in 1821, Mrs. Dickson surviving him several years.
To Adam and Mary (Dickson) Sours were born nine children : Margaret was born March 11, 1808, in Menallen township, about two miles from where Bendersville now stands; Jacob was born at the same place, April 28, 1810, and died when twelve years and three months old : Paul was born Feb. 7, 1812, in Huntington township, Adams county, Pa., on the old farm about a mile from Idaville; Magdalene (Lena) was born June 12, 1813; John Dickson was born Feb. 23, 1815; Adam, June 30, 1816; William, Feb. 27. 1818; Samuel, July 4, 1820; Jacob (2) Sept. 16, 1823. Of these children two are still living : Adam, of Find- lay, Ohio, who married. Mary Ashbaugh,
and who is now in his eighty-ninth year ; and John D., of Mechanicsburg, Cumber- land county, Pennsylvania.
Rev. John Dickson Sours is believed to be the oldest born Sours now living. Though almost ninety he still retains a clear memory, is a man remarkably well preserved for his years, and he read without glasses up to within the last two or three years. Until the last few weeks he has spent a great deal of his time in reading and in writing letters. but of late failing sight has made this difficult for him. He walks five squares to the postoffice nearly every day if the weather is not too bad, and the same distance to church once and sometimes twice on Sun- days. He has been a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church since March 1, 1837, and a local preacher in that denomination since the summer of 1884. Besides attend- ing to his work in that capacity he was for many years actively engaged in school teach- ing, and his stories of the life of a Methodist preacher in those early days of long circuits and saddle-bags, and of the old schoolhouses, are very interesting. Politically, he is a Prohibitionist, and voted for Dr. Swallow for president of the United States. He mar- ried Anna Mary Mears. Sept. 11. 1856, and they had six children: Mary Anna, born July 16, 1857 (died May 4. 1865) : John Dickson, Sept. 3, 1861 (died April 22, 1865) ; Sadie Magdalene, March 19, 1869 (died Nov. 25, 1879); and Margaret Emma, Benjamin Franklin Moers, and Laura Myrtle, who with their parents, live at Mechanicsburg.
John Sours, Sr., son of Adam. located in Pine Grove township, remaining there until 1791, when he bought the old Butler farm of 230 acres in Dickinson township, whither he removed his family, and where he died in 1820. He, however, remained
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at Pine Grove, engaged as a molder, till shortly before his death. John Sours, Sr., married Elizabeth Bush, who bore him the following children: George, Elizabeth, Katie, Hannah, Samuel, Sarah, Ellen and Nancy.
Samuel Sours, son of John, Sr., was born Feb. 28. 1790. He attended school in Dickinson township, and followed farming as an occupation. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. On Jan. 21, 1824. he mar- ried Sarah Spangler. daughter of John and Katie Spangler, and they became the parents of ten children : Mary, who married Jacob Mumau and died in Dickinson township; Rebecca, who died in South Middleton town- ship: John; George, who died in Illinois; William, of Dauphin county, Pa. ; Elizabeth. deceased; Martha, deceased; David, who was a soldier in the Civil war, was mustered out in July, 1865. and died in Dickinson township July 31, ten days after reaching home: Charles, of Carlisle; and an infant who died when twenty-four hours old. Sam- uel Sours, the father, died Sept. 17, 1858, aged sixty-eight years. six months. seven- teen days ; and his wife died March 21, 1889, aged eighty-six years, five months, twelve days.
John Sours, son of Samuel, is engaged in the cultivation of the old homestead. He has 104 acres of good land, which he has greatly improved since it came into his pos- session, having erected all new buildings. Mr. Sours is noted for his remarkable mem- ory of events in local history, being able to give almost the exact day when any import- ant event in the locality occurred. He has long been a worker in the Methodist Church, as was also his wife. His political faith is that of the Democrats.
On March 6, 1862, he married Agnes Caroline Donaldson, daughter of Robert and
Jane ( Huston) Donaldson, the former of whom died Feb. 12, 1867, aged eighty-seven years, and the latter July 30, 1872, aged eighty-eight years. After forty-one years of married life Mrs. Sours died March 6, 1903. She was born Aug. 31. 1827, and came to Dickinson township with her parents in 1830. She grew to noble womanhood in the neighborhood where she last lived, and was greatly beloved by all who knew her.
GEORGE ARTHUR REA, one of the prominent business men of Newton town- ship. Cumberland county, proprietor of the Big Spring Roller Mills, and a resident of Big Spring, was born April 25, 1862, in West Pennsboro township. The Rea family came originally from the North of Ireland and was founded in Pennsylvania by the great-grandfather of our subject.
James Dunlap Rea, father of George Arthur, was born Feb. 20, 1838, in West Pennsboro township, son of George and Martha (Dunlap) Rea, the former of whom was born in ISO1, in Bedford county, Pa. James Dunlap Rea married Elizabeth Mc- Cullough, born in 1837, in Dickinson town- ship, Cumberland county, daughter of David and Betsy (Coyle) Mccullough, of Perry county, Pa. After marriage they located on the old Rea homestead of 140 acres, in West Pennsboro township, where Mr. Rea carried on general farming and stock raising for some years, and then entered into a mercan- tile business. Later he was interested also in a milling and a banking business, with his father, George Rea, who was a member of the firm of Rea, Gray & Co., of the First Na- tional Bank of Newville. Mr. Rea still sur- vives, now being a retired farmer and busi- ness man of West Pennsboro township. The three survivors of his family of seven chil- dren arc: Charles, who is connected with
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the Harrisburg postoffice; Mary L., wife of Samuel Stuart, resides at Mooredale, Cum- berland county : and George Arthur.
George Arthur Rea obtained his educa- tion in the local schools, and enjoyed the ad- vantages of one term at the private school of Prof. H. H. Longsdorf, at Centerville. After leaving school he returned to the farm for five years, and then engaged for two years in the insurance business. Since 1892 he has been interested in the Big Spring Roller Mills, his father at that time being the senior partner of the firm of J. D. Rea & Son. After three or four years the elder Rea sold his interests to G. A. Rea and L. J. McLeaf, the firm then becoming Rea & Mc- Leaf. Three years later our subject bought Mr. McLeaf's interest, since which time he has been sole proprietor. The Big Spring Roller Mills are located on Big Spring, a stream which has more than a State reputa- tion for fine trout fishing. The motive power is water, and the plant is fitted with modern machinery rollers and separators and all nec- essary appliances for the production of sev- enty-five barrels of superior flour a day, which does not fill the demands of the trade through the local markets and adjacent towns. In addition to flour, the firm has in- stalled a hydraulic cider press, which is run satisfactorily in connection with the other industry. For the past twenty years the business has been carried on successfully, our subject being his own able manager.
On Jan. 5, 1888, Mr. Rea married Mary Isabel Beattie, daughter of H. C. and Isabel (Brown) Beattie. of Cumberland county, and to this union three children have been born: Scott Coyle, Linn Mccullough and Paul Clark. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rea are members of the Big Spring Church at New- ville. Although a stanch Republican Mr. R'ea has always declined political honors.
Fraternally, he is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and is very prominent in the Ma- sonic bodies, belonging to Big Spring Lodge, No. 361, A. F. & A. M .; St. John's Chapter, No. 171, R. A. M .; and St. John's Commandery, Knights Templar, being Past Eminent Commander. Mr. Rea enjoys the respect and regard of his fellow citizens, with whom he has held business and social relations for so many years. He not only is a worthy representative of an old family. but ranks with the most progressive and en- terprising men of his community.
S. G. BOWMAN. Few men are more highly esteemed or better known through Cumberland county, than is S. G. Bowman, teller in the Second National Bank of Me- chanicsburg, who was born Feb. 1, 1838, in East Pennsboro township, Cumberland county, son of Samuel and Sarah (Gorgas) Bowman, both. of this county.
Samuel Bowman was a farmer, and for many years was a minister of the Seventh- Day Baptist Church-a man valued for his piety, and for his good and exemplary life. He was a son of John Bowman, who was born and was reared at Ephrata, Pa., belong- ing to an early family of that community, one of the founders of the Seventh-Day Bap- tist religious body there. John Bowman came later to Cumberland county and settled at Camp Hill, where the balance of his life was spent. His four sons and two daugh- ters were: George, Samuel, Henry, John, Fannie and Susan.
Samuel Bowman, father of our subject, was born Oct. 7, 1799, in Cumberland coun- ty, and died in 1848, and his wife, Sarah Gorgas, was born Jan. 19, 1800, and died Aug. 21, 1878. They were married in 1820, and became the parents of five sons and five daughters, six of whom grew to maturity,
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as follows: Catherine, born July 9, 1822, married Dr. A. B. Hostetter, who died in Illinois; Regina, born July 26, 1826, mar- ried David Lingle, and both died in the West; Mary, born Nov. 25, 1829, married Joseph Ross, of Middletown ; Samuel, born Nov. 12, 1835. resides in Mechanicsburg ; S. G .; Simon P., born Nov. 20, 1842, died Sept. 6. 1877: Susan died in childhood, and the others in infancy, all having passed away with the exception of Samuel and our sub- ject. The father of this family was very widely known in religious circles both in Lancaster and in Cumberland counties. In his earlier ministerial life he served the Seventh-Day Baptists, but later entered the ministry of the sect known as the Church of God. Endowed with the gift of oratory, Rev. Samuel Bowman added to it the simple sincerity of honest Christian conviction, and for years he labored most successfully through Cumberland county. He traveled long distances and preached in school houses and private houses, long before any churches were built in the country districts, carrying the words of the Gospel, performing the cer- emonials of marriage and burial, and becom- ing identified with the lives of the most of the people. He will long be recalled with affection and veneration.
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