History of Cumberland and Adams counties, Pennsylvania. Containing history of the counties, their townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc.; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, etc., etc, Part 177

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CORNELIUS SMITHI, retired farmer, P. O. Hampton, was born August 26, 1826, in Adams County, Penn., and is a son of Jacob and Margaret (Crumb) Smith, natives of Maryland. His father was a farmer and moved to Adams County. Penn., at an early day, where he lived until his death in 1878. Our subject was reared on a farm, and remained with his parents until he was thirty- five years of age, when he commenced farming on his own account and lived on the homestead six years In 1866 he moved to Hampton and bought the property where he now resides, and where he has followed farming until last year, when he retired. He owns twenty-five acres of good land. March 6. 1860, he mar- ried Nancy Dicks. Mr. Smith is an enterprising, intelligent citizen: Mrs. Smith is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church.

GEORGE W. SPANGLER. miller, P. O. Hampton, was horn in Reading Township, this county, January 21, 1844, and is a son of Rudolph and Mary (Snyder) Spangler, na- tives of Pennsylvania. His father spent his life in agricultural pursuits, and died in 1816. George W. was reared on a farm, remaining at home until he was ten years of age, when he was put out among strangers until eigliteen years of age. He then learned the miller's trade at Atheburg's Mill, serving an apprenticeship of one year. He has worked in dif- ferent places ever since. He has lately rented the grist-mill owned by William P. Himes, located about two miles northwest of Hampton, which he has operated about one year. He is a competent miller and does good work. He is a member of the Reformed Church; politically he is a Democrat.

JOHN SPANGLER. farmer, P. O. New Chester, brother of the above, was born in Reading Township, this county, March 4, 1845. He was reared on the farm and remained with his mother all his life, his father having died when he was but four months old. He now owns sixty-four acres of land where he resides. Ile married January 20, 1870, Amelia Morrow, danghter of Samnel and Sarah Morrow, natives of Pennsylvania, and to this union were born three children: Georgiana, Charles and James Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Spangler are members of the Reformed Church, and in politics he is a Democrat.

DR. DAVID M. C. WHITE, P. O. Hampton, was born November 8, 1820, near Hampton, Adams County, a son of David and Sarah (Dicks) White, also natives of the same county. Ilis father followed farming until 1826, when he moved to Ilampton and entered mercantile business, which he followed for a number of years. Later he engaged in speenlating, but died suddenly at Fort Wayne, Ind .. August 10, 1853, and was buried in Ilampton. Our subject was six years of age when his parents moved to Hampton. In early life he received a good education and assisted in his father's storc. Later he studied dentistry and located in Hampton, where he has since resided and where he has an extensive practice. In 1815 he married Retura S. Blish, who hore him seven children: Charles, Emma, Wert, David, John, Sarah and Heber, five of whom are now living. Mrs. White died October 1, 1863. Her father, Dr. Charles Blish, was a native of Massachusetts and one of the pioneer settlers of Hampton, Adams Co., Penn., where he located in 1818, and established an extensive practice. Ile was also the first postmaster of Hampton, and took an active part in everything calculated to build up the place and promote the inter- ests of the community. He died May 9, 1861, at the age of sixty-nine years, leaving three daughters: Retura, Hannah and Addie. Dr. White's second marriage took place in 1876.

JACOB WOLF, merchant, Hampton, was born in Adams County, Penn .. June 4, 1826, and is a son of James and Polly (Little) Wolf, natives of Pennsylvania. llis grand- parents were also natives of Pennsylvania, but his great grandfather was born in Ger- many. James Wolf, in early life, was engaged at carriage-making. but later followed the trade of a chair-maker, and died in Adams County March 16, 1855, and was buried in Hampton Cemetery. Our subject was reared near New Chester, where he learned the chair-maker's trade, which he followed for thirty years at different points. In 1858 he entered mercantile business at Ilampton, which he continued until 1865, when he moved to Hollinstown, Cumberland County, and engaged in the same business for four years, working one year at his trade. In 1869 he moved to Hunterstown, where he bought a farm of eighty acres, which he rented out, working at his trade for twelve years. In 1880 he sold his farm, moved back to Hampton, and again entered mercantile business, which he has since followed. He was married January 6, 1848, to Mary A., daughter of Griffith and Anna E. Conver, and to this union ten children were born, nine of whom are living: James E. (an Evangelical missionary in the Indian Territory), Martha A., Susan A., Rosa A., Sarah E., Jacob O., Mary A., George B. M. and Effie; the deceased was an infant son. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf are members of the Methodist Church. He has served as township clerk.

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W. D. BREAM, farmer, P. O. Unity, was born in Butler Township, this county, March 24, 1840, aud is the son of John and Margaret (Myers) Bream, natives of this coun- ty. The father was a farmer, and reared a family of five children, of whom W. D. is the eldest. Our subject was reared on the farm and educated at the schools of his neighbor- hood. He chose the vocation of farming and in it has met with success. He is also a natural mechanic, and is able to turn his hand to any kind of mechanism. He was mar- ried, in 1866, to Anna E,, daughter of Jonas Rebert, and of German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Bream are the parents of the following named children: Harry C., Ella M., John M., Edwin S., Edith A., Mary N. and Edna Merttle. Mr. and Mrs. Bream are members of the Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Democrat.

ISAAC F. BRINKERIIOFF, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Granite Hill, was born on the farm where he now resides February 16, 1825, a son of James and Susan (Range) Brinkerhoff; the latter a native of this county and of German descent. His father, grand- father (John Brinkerhoff) and great-grandfather were all born on the farm, which is now occupied by the seventh generation, and which formerly consisted of 640 acres, but which now numbers only 112. James and Susan Brinkerhoff's family consisted of six children, of whom Isaac F. is the second. Our subject received a rudimentary education, and from his youth up has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1846 be was united in mar- riage with Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Moritz, a farmer of German origin. Mr. and Mrs. Brinkerhoff have a family of five children, as follows: J. Frank (employed in the Government Mint, at Philadelphia), Mary Jane, Anna. Maggie and Fannie. The family are members of the Reformed Church, in which Mr. Brinkerhoff is elder. He has also served as school director. In politics he is a Democrat.

AMOS CASHMAN, farmer and stock-grower. P. O. Plainview, was born on the farm where he now resides January 25, 1833, a son of George and Rebecca (Thomas) Cashman, also natives of this county; former, a farmer. Their family consisted of five sons, all liv- ing, of whom our subject is the third. Amos was reared on the farm where he now re- sides, and where he has lived all his life, except two years spent in Ohio. He has made farming his business, and is the owner of seventy-five acres in Straban Township. He has been twice married; first in 1865, to Lydia Ann Deardorff, who bore him five children; Caroline E., Rebecca E., Mary Jane. Emma Kate and Absalom. Mrs. Cashman died in 1875, and in 1877 our subject married Lucy Shull, a lady of German descent, who has borne him five children: Cora E., Luther F., Maggie B., Amos B. and Charles H. Mr. and Mrs. Cashman are members of the Lutheran Church. Politically he is a Republican. The Cashmans are of German origin and have been generally agriculturists. The farm where our subject now resides has been in the possession of the family ninety-four years.

JOHN CLEVELAND, farmer, P. O. Unity, was born on the farm where he now re- sides February 7, 1831, a son of John and Sophia (Essick) Cleveland; latter a native of this county. His father, who was a native of New York and of English descent, fol- lowed farming and died March 6, 1872. Their family consisted of four children, three of whom survive, our subject being the third. The paternal grandfather, Frederick Cleve- land, came from New York to Pennsylvania, participated in the Revolutionary war, and the paternal great-grandfather, Jabez Cleveland, was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. Tbe paternal grandmother, Mrs. Cleveland, was Maria VanBuren, of Dutch extraction, born in New York, daughter of Henry VanBuren, a full brother of ex-President Martin VanBuren's father, which made her mother a first cousin to the ex-President. Our sub- ject was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. He married, January 21, 1864, Anna M. Lower, daughter of George C. and Sarah (Crum) Lower, who were of German origin; former a carpenter and farmer. The names of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland are as follows: George Elmer, Sally K., John Emory, Anna Mary, Ella Margaret (deceased) and Robert Calvin. The family are members of the German Re- formed Church. In politics Mr. Cleveland is a Republican. By referring 10 the history of the Cleveland family it is found that our subject is a relative of President Cleveland.

EPIIRAIM DEARDORFF, farmer and stock grower, P. O. Gettysburg. is a native of this county, horn January 19, 1822, a son of Daniel and Eva M. (Miller) Deardorff, the former of whom was born of German parents in this county, where he spent most of his life; the latter was born in York County, Penn. Ephraim, their only child, was

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educated in the district school, and from his youth has followed agricultural pursuits, in which he has been successful. He is the owner of 150 neres of land on which he resides and which he acquired by industry and self-denial. In 1844, he married Jane M. Deum- ree, who bore him the following named children: Sarah E., Mary M .. John and D. W., a farmer and teacher. Mrs. Deardorff died October 26, 1853, and August 22, 1855, our sub- ject was united in marriage with Anna M. Lott, to which union were born Jacob (de- ceased), Elizabeth E., Ephraim Oscar. Anna Belle (a teacher), Charles lloward and Will- iam Henry (a teacher). Mr. and Mrs. Deardorff are members of the German Baptist Church, in which denomination he has been dencon. He is a useful, influential farmer, and it is said of him that no man was ever turned from his door hungry.

WALTER II. DECHERT. farmer and stock raiser, P. O. New Chester, was born in Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn., May 2, 1854, a son of Peter and Margaret (Hoffman) Dechert, the latter of whom was born on the farm where Walter II. now resides, in Stra- ban Township, nud with whom she makes her home. Peter Dechert was born in Cham- bersburg, of German origin, and for many years was proprietor and editor of the Valley Spirit, at Chambersburg, and was widely known for his ability as an editor. Politically he was a Democrat. lle died March 1, 1875. a member of the Lutheran Church. Ile was a man of enterprise and a citizen of much influence in the community. HEis family con- sisted of two children, of whom Walter H. survives. Our subject received a common school education in youth, and later attended the Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg. Ile adopted farming as his vocation, at which he has been very successful, and is the owner of 332 acres of land where he resides, which is well improved and stocked. In 1875, he married Emma Thomas, of German origin. They have one child-Mervin Roy. Mr. and Mrs. Dechert are members of the Lutheran Church, of which he has been deacon. In polities he is a Democrat. lle is one of Straban's prominent farmers.

AMOS M. DETRICK, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Gettysburg, was born in Heid- lersburg, this county, November 20, 1839, a son of David and Elizabeth (Houck) Detrick, natives of Pennsylvania, latter of whom was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1801, and died in November, 1885. His father was born in this county in 1806, and still sur- vives; he is of German descent; was in early life a carpenter, hut later a farmer and mer- chant. His family consisted of four children. Amos M. was reared on the farm and has always followed agricultural pursuits. He has passed his life in this county, except some years after the war which he spent in Maryland. In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in Company B, and was in the fol- lowing battles: Brandy Station. Locust Grove, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Monocacy, Opequon, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Petersburg, Sailor's Creek; also following skirmishes: Wapping Heights, Kelly's Ford, Talopotomay, Bermuda Hundred, Snicker's Gap, Charlestown, Smithfield, New Market. The distance he traveled was, by rail, 825 miles; by water, 625 miles; distance marched, 1,975 miles; total, 3,425 miles. Ile served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged, and has since followed farming. June 9, 1861, Mr. Detrick married Lydia A., daughter of Jonathan C. Forest, who lived to be ninety-two years old, and was never sick a day in his life, except the two weeks before his death. Mrs. Detrick is of German origio, and a member of the Method- ist Episcopal Church. Mr. Detrick is a member of the G. A. R., and commander of Corp. Skelly Post No. 9. He is a Republican in politics.

J. R. DICKSON, A. M , M. D., Hunterstown, was born near this place February 23, 1853, a son of John and Martha E. (Campbell) Dickson, natives of Pennsylvania. ITis paternal and maternal ancestors were among the early Scotch-Irish settlers of Strahan Township, this county. His father was a farmer, and his family consisted of five chil- dren, the Doctor being the second. Our subject was reared on the farm, attended the com- mon school, and spent two years at Chambersburg Academy under the instruction of Prof. Shumaker; then entered Lafayette College, Penn., and graduated in the class of 1877. The same year he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylva- nia, where he graduated in 1880, and has been in the practice of his profession in Straban Township since 1881. He married, January 31, 1882, Margaret R., daughter of John and Rebecca (Taughinbaugh) McCrea, of Scotch-Irish origin; former of whom was superintend- ent of iron furnaces in Armstrong County, Penn., many years. Mr. and Mrs. Dickson are parents of the following children: James Allen, Martha Campbell, and an infant not named. Mrs. Diekson is a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Dickson has been school director, and at present is justice of the peace of his township. He is the owner of 240 acres of land, well improved and valuable, where he resides.

JOSEPH A. DIEHIL, farmer and thresher, P. O. Plainview, was born in this county, November 7, 1840, a son of Samuel (a farmer) and Catherine (Bream) Dichl, natives of York and Adams Counties, Penn., respectively, and of German origin. Their family con- sisted of seven children, Joseph A. being the fourth. Our subject was reared on the farm, received his education in the common schools, and chose farming as his occupation, in connection with which. for seventeen years. he has operated a threshing machine, for the last eight years a steam thresher. In 1863 he married Anna Mary Hleagy, daughter of John and Amanda (Weigle) lleagy, natives of this county, and of German origin. Mr.

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and Mrs. Diehl have one child-Hermie Irene-whose profession is music teaching. The family are members of the Lutheran Church. In politics Mr. Diehl is a Republican.

S. A. GILLILAND, farmer and stock grower, P. O. Gettysburg, was born on the farm where he now resides, June 4, 1834, a son of Flemming and Sarah Gilliland, natives of Stra- ban Township, this county. His paternal and maternal ancestors were among the early Scotch-Irish settlers of Adams County, and many of them participated in the Revolution and also in the war of 1812. Our subject's father, who was a farmer by occupation, was a soldier in the latter struggle. His family consisted of four children, three of whom are still living: J. J. F., a druggist in Texas; S. A .; and Sarah E., who resides in Gettys- burg. S. A. grew to mauhood in Straban Township on the farm where he now resides, and was educated at the country school. As an agriculturist he has met with great suc- cess, and his farm consists of 225 acres of land. In 1865 he married Margaret G., daugh- ter of James McKnight, of Allegheny County, Penn., and their union was blessed with five children, three now living; W. Fleming, Sarah E. and John H. Mrs. Gilliland died May 20, 1885, a member of the Presbyterian Church. Politically Mr. Gilliland is a Dem- ocrat. llis grandfather was a judge and held the first court in Adams County; also was in the State Senate a number of terins.

DR. CHARLES EDWARD GOLDSBOROUGH, Hunterstown, was born December 16, 1834, at Graceham, Frederick Co., Md., and studied medicine in his father's office and at the University of Maryland. His family on his father's side were Anglo-Saxon, and on his mother's Scotch. His paternal ancestors were seated at Goldsborough Hall, near Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England, on several cates of land granted to the head of the family by William the Conqueror. The head of the family in America was an officer in the British Army, who settled near Cambridge, Dorchester Co., Md., in early colonial times. Robert Goldsborough, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a distinguished black-letter lawyer, and, although educated at the Middle Temple, in Lon- don, and married there Miss Sarah Yerbury, he headed the Maryland Delegation in the First and Second Continental Congresses that met in Carpenter's Hall. Philadelphia, in 1774-76, against the mother country. He supported and voted for Richard Henry Lee's resolution, July 2, and also the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776; but as the Dec- Iaration was ordered to be engrossed and was not signed until August 2, following, a sick- ness, that soon after proved fatal, prevented his being present at that time, and it was signed by Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, who succeeded him, but was not a member when the bill was passed, July 4. His son William, also a lawyer by profession, married Miss Sallie Worthington, of Annapolis, Md., and located at Frederick City after the Revolu- tionary war, where, in May, 1804, Leander W., his youngest son, was born, who married Sarah Ann, daughter of Capt. Perry Dunkin, who for many years sailed from Baltimore, and was finally lost in the ship "Cervantes." From this marriage six sons and one daugh- ter were born, Charles Edward being the third child. After crossing the plains with an ox-team, during the immigration to California, in 1853, he returned via Cape Horn, in 1854, and commenced the practice of medicine in Hunterstown, Adams Co., Penn., in 1855. March 4, 1857, he married Mary McC. Neely, daughter of the late Capt. John Neely, by whom he had two daughters: Grace Annie, born January 8, 1858, and now mar- ried to James F. Bell, and Mary McConaughy, born March 4, 1860, and died August 31, 1860. His wife dying March 10, 1860, he entered the United States Army at Frederick City, Md., soon after the battle of Ball's Bluff, and assisted in establishing the United States General Hospital at that place. Upon the invasion of Maryland by Gen. Lee he was captured, September, 6, 1862, but, upon Lee evacuating the city, was released and did efficient service after the battle of Antietam, as executive officer. in establishing hos- pitals for the wounded at Frederick. At the battle of Winchester, Va., June 15, 1863, he was agaiu captured ou the field at Carter's Woods, by his brother, William, who was serving as major of the Second Maryland Infantry, Confederate States Army, and sent to Libby prison, where he was confined a prisoner uutil November following, when he re- ceived the following parole:

" RICHMOND, October 20, 1863.

" Dr. Charles E. Goldsborough has permission to go North, upon his giving his parole of honor to return to Richmond, Va., within forty days, if he does not secure the acqui- escence of the Federal authorities in the following propositions, to wit: That all surgeons on both sides shall be unconditionally released, except such as have charges preferred against them. Such proposition is to be understood as embracing not only those already in captivity, but all surgeons who may hereafter be captured. Ro. OULD,

" Agent of Exchange."

(INDORSED.) "I accept the conditions proposed in the above instrument of writing, and hereby give my parole of honor to comply with its requirements.

'C. E. GOLDSBOROUGH,

" First Assistant Surgeon Fifth Regiment Maryland Infantry."

Aided by Sec. S. P. Chase and others, he succeeded in effecting the release of about 100 Federal surgeons confined in Libby prison, and more than as many Confederate sur-

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geons confined in Fort Mellenry; but through the opposition of Gen. Grant and Edwin M. Stanton he was unable to do anything toward effecting a general exchange of prison- ers, as was hoped. In December, 1863, he was assigned to duty at Fort Delaware, where he found his brother William, who had been severly wounded and captured at Gettys- burg, and Eugene, belonging to llarry Gilmore's battalion of cavalry, both prisoners of war. Eugene died a prisoner, and William, after being sent to Morris Island and Fort Pulaski, was returned to Fort Delaware and released in July, 1865, after being a prisoner more than two years. In the spring of 1864 Dr. Goldsborough went with his regiment to Ber- muda Hundred, on the James River, and joined the forces of Gen. B. F. Butler, and assisted in the siege of Petersburg, where he was wounded July 6, 1864, and sent to Chesapeake Hospital. After his recovery, being unfit for field duty because of disability contracted in the service, he was assigned to duty at Lincoln Hospital, in Washington, D. C., where he remained until August, 1865, when he returned to Hunterstown and resumed his prac- tice, and engaged extensively in farming. November 14, 1866, he married Miss Alice E., daughter of Jesse McCreery, and had ten children, as follows: Eugene Worthington, born April 9, 1868; Alice Lenore, born January 23, 1870; Virginia G., born August 29, 1871; Fannie Josephine, born May 3, 1874; Charles Edward, born September 15, 1875: Mar- tha E-telle, born March 25, 1877; Sara Neva, born September 8, 1878; Vera S., born May 26, 1880: Robert McCreery, born September 3. 1881; and died March 4, 1883; and William Worthington, born March 29, 1883. In politics Dr. Goldsborough, although descended from old Federal stock, early in life embraced the faith of Jefferson and Jackson, and al- ways esponsed Democratic principles; but when the party became contaminated with Hamiltonianism, he refused to be bound by its conventions, und voted independently for such candidates as nearest conformed to his political views. He regards the "mug- wnmp" as the offspring of political adultery. He is a member of Corp. Skelly Post, No. 9, Gettysburg, G. A. R.

GEORGE J. GROVE, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Gettysburg, was born in West- minster, Carroll Co., Md., June 19, 1843, a son of Jacob and Mary (Harbod) Grove; the latter a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent. The father was born in Mar- tinshurg, Va., March 31, 1790, of German descent. Ile was a son of Jacob, Sr., who was a native of Germany, a wheelwright (he spelled his name Groff instead of Grove). Jacob Jr., was also a wheelwright in early life, having learned his trade in Hanover, but later followed farming. He was twice married, George J. being the third child by the second wife. Our subject was educated at Westminster, Md .; has traveled over most of the western country, and for a time was engaged in mining; has made altogether, five trips to the far West. On his return in 1883, he engaged in agricultural pursuits on the farm left by his father, which consists of 130 acres. His mother is still living, and resides with him. In 1886, Mr. Grove married Amanda, daughter of Jacob Foot, a farmer; she is of German origin and a member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Grove is a member of the United Brethren Church, and also a teacher in the Sunday-school. Politically, he is a Republican.

F. A. HANKEY, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Gettysburg, was born in Cumber- Iand Township, this county, March 6, 1836, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Shriver) Han- key, natives of Maryland and of German origin. Jacob was a farmer and also a cattle dealer and drover which occupation be followed for many years. His family consisted of eight children, F. A. being the fourth. Our subject's early education was obtained at the common schools and later at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg. He was reared on the farm and has followed agricultural pursuits, in which he has met with success. In 1863, he married Ellen C., daughter of Joseph Wible, of German origin. To Mr. and Mrs. Hankey the following named children were born: Joseph S. G., B. W., D. S., Elizabeth Rebecca A., and Willie Fred. Mr. and Mrs. Hankey are members of the Lutheran Church. Ile enlisted in 1863, in the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served on detached duty most of the time. Ile entered the enemy's lines and was the first man to go through the enemy's camp at Gettysburg and report to Gen. Meade what he saw. After the battle of Gettysburg he took charge of the hospital here until the close of the war.

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