BIO:  John KINDIG, Union 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 515

JOHN KINDIG, farmer, P. O. Sell’s Station, was born November 26, 1819, in Spring 
Garden Township, York County, Penn.  His father, John Kindig, also a native of 
York County, a farmer and distiller, came in 1837 to Conowago Township, this 
county, where he died aged eighty-one years.  He married Mrs. Catharine 
Longnecker, nee Lindermoot, who was born in Lancaster County, Penn., and died in 
York County, Penn., the mother of four children by her first husband and of 
eight by Mr. Kindig:  Levi, Matilda, John, Anna, Jacob, Sarah, Martin and Mary.  
Our subject was reared on the farm and has followed agriculture all his life.  
He was married in Conowago Township, this county, March 26, 1846, to Susan, 
daughter of George Basehoar.  She was born in Lancaster County, Penn., November 
23, 1826, and died June 8, 1878, the mother of ten children, all of whom are now 
living:  Henry, Mary C., Lucy M., Emma J., Alice R., Susannah M., George D., 
Charles W., Samuel G. and Franklin D.  The family are all members of the 
Lutheran Church.  John Kindig came to Union Township, this county, in 1848, and 
bought the old Jacob Wagner farm, and has now 140 acres of land with good 
improvements, most of which he has made himself, as he has been a very 
industrious farmer.  Politically he is a Republican.