BIO:  Charles S. DUNCAN, Gettysburg, 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 353

CHARLES S. DUNCAN, attorney at law, Gettysburg, was born here April 2, 1864, a 
son of Hon. William A. and Catherine W. (Schmucker) Duncan.  His paternal and 
maternal ancestors were among the early settlers of the State.  His mother was 
of German and his father of Scotch-Irish lineage.  The latter was born in 
Cashtown, Adams Co., Penn., in 1835, a lawyer, who met with marked success in 
that profession.  He was elected to Congress in 1882, and died while serving 
that body.  He was a member of the Reformed Church.  Charles S. is the eldest of 
four children, of whom William, the second child, is private secretary to 
Congressman Swope, of Washington, D. C., and John S. and Schmucker are students 
in Pennsylvania College.  The mother was a member of the Lutheran Church.  Our 
subject grew to manhood in Gettysburg, and was graduated from Pennsylvania 
College in 1882; read law in the law department of the Pennsylvania University 
and graduated in 1884.