BIO:  Joseph COSHUN, Mountpleasant 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 486

JOSEPH COSHUN, farmer, P. O. Bonneauville.  John Coshun, the great-grandfather 
of this gentleman, came from Flanders, and settled in New Jersey.  He had three 
sons:  John, Joshua and Peter, and of these Peter settled in Frederick County, 
Md., Joshua in New York, and John in Mountpleasant Township, this county, where 
he farmed and eventually died, aged sixty years.  He, John, married Hannah, 
daughter of John Conover, a native of Long Island and of Dutch descent.  John 
and Hannah Coshun had nine children, of whom Joseph married Sarah, daughter of 
Isaac and Sarah (Barr) Robinson.  Her mother was a daughter of William and 
Rebecca (Torrence) Watson, and the latter, Rebecca Torrence, was a daughter of 
Aaron Torrence.  To Joseph and Sarah (Robinson) Coshun were born seven children:  
Mary R., Catharine, Amanda (deceased), John, Sarah, Ann J. (deceased), and 
Joseph.  Joseph Coshun, Sr., was a farmer by occupation; took an active interest 
in educational matters, serving as school director for a long time; he died in 
this township aged fifty-two, and his widow when sixty-four.  Of their children 
our subject was educated in this county, and is a farmer.  He was married in 
Gettysburg, Penn., to Sarah J., daughter of Squire Samuel Durboraw, and by this 
union there are six children now living:  Mary J., John N., Anna L., William, 
Emma J., and Alice F.  Mr. and Mrs. Coshun are members of the Lutheran Church.  
He has been identified with the Republican party ever since its organization.  
During the late civil war he served as a member of Company C, Ninety-eighth 
Pennsylvania, Sixth Corps. Army of the Potomac, enlisting in March, 1865, and 
serving till the close of the Rebellion.