BIO:  Amos CASHMAN, Straban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 506

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 living, of whom our subject is the third.  Amos was reared on 
the farm where he now resides, 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.