BIO:  J. H. COBEAN, Cumberland 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 398

J. H. COBEAN, farmer and stock-grower, P.O. Gettysburg, was born in Cumberland 
Township, Adams Co., Penn., August 22, 1836, a son of Samuel and Eliza Jane 
(McCullough) Cobean, natives of Adams County, Penn., and of Scotch-Irish origin.  
His father, a farmer by occupation, served as steward of the Adams County 
almshouse for several years, and of his family of three children J. H. is the 
second.  Our subject was reared on a farm and received the benefits of the 
district schools of his neighborhood and of the graded schools of Gettysburg.  
He chose farming as his vocation, and has met with success in that pursuit.  He 
now possesses 133 acres of well-improved land, on which he resides.  In 1867 Mr. 
Cobean was married to Anna E. Horner, of Scotch-Irish descent, daughter of John 
Horner, who was a captain in the civil war.  Three children have been born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Cobean:  Emma Jane, Charles Horner and John Witherow.  The parents 
are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Cobean is an elder.  In 
politics he is a Republican, and has acted as judge of elections.  He served one 
year in the Army, first in the Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry and afterward 
in the One Hundred and First Pennsylvania Infantry.