BIO:  W. F. EVERHART, 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 401

W. F. EVERHART, farmer, P.O. Gettysburg, was born in Highland Township, Adams 
Co., Penn., December 15, 1849, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Miller) Everhart, 
natives of York County, Penn., and of German descent.  Jacob Everhart, who had 
been a shoe-maker through life, was the father of eight children, of whom W. F. 
is the fifth.  Our subject was reared on a farm, receiving his education in the 
common schools of Adams County, and chose agricultural pursuits as an 
occupation, at which he has been employed since he was thirteen years old, and 
is now the owner of a farm of 100 acres.  In 1880 he was married to Elizabeth 
Bream, daughter of Francis Bream, who was a man of some prominence, being at one 
time sheriff of Adams County.  He was a farmer, and succeeded in accumulating 
considerable property, giving to each of his three sons the farms on which they 
reside, located in Cumberland Township.  To our subject and wife have been born 
three children:  Bessie May, Blanche Elizabeth and M. Virginia.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Everhart are members of St. James’s Lutheran Church in Gettysburg.  In politics 
he is a Democrat.