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Biographical Annals of

Cumberland County

Pennsylvania

 

CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

AND OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLED FAMILIES.

 

Illustrated.

 

Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Company, 1905.

 

A Project of the Cumberland County PA USGenWeb Archives

 

PREFACE

 

IN presenting to their patrons The Biographical Annals of Cumberland County the publishers feel that they are meeting what is now recognized as a necessity in every intelligent conununity. Even public records now show a diversity of statistics that would have been considered absolutely unprofitable not many years ago. Until recently works of this nature have been limited to biographies of public men and the family genealogies prepared by the appreciative few who recognized the worth of such records. Much might be said of their present and future value; we will only call attention to the important fact that they perpetuate information now readily obtainable and hence lightly valued, but easily lost, the value of which is not always apparent until too late.
As the title indicates, the book is devoted to biography. But these biographies, portraying as they do the lives of many men who were most intimately connected with the making of history in the early days of the Cumberland Valley, contain much historical matter and thus have a double value to the thoughtful reader. Many of these sketches have been compiled by Mr. Jeremiah Zeamer, who has devoted much time and study to historical research. The data have been obtained principally from those immediately interested and the various items of historical interest are well authenticated and possess a lasting worth enhanced by the fact that many of them would be preserved in no other way.
We take this opportunity to express our gratitude for the help and encouragement we have received in the county, and the volume is issued in the belief that it will form a worthy addition to the private or public library.

THE PUBLISHERS

 

 

 

NOTE: Biographies may be found by clicking the hyper-linked page number by a name.
Images may be accessed by clicking a hyper-linked name.

 

BIOGRAPHIES

 

 

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OCRed by Judy Banja

 

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