BIO:  Francis W. ORNER, Menallen 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 478

FRANCIS W. ORNER, son of Henry and Sarah (Knouse) Orner, was born February 19, 
1828, and first learned the trade of shoe-making.  He married Elizabeth 
Frommeyer, August 19, 1861, and bought his present home, to which he has since 
added, and which now consists of ninety acres.  He taught school for nine 
sessions before marriage and one session since.  He still keeps a shoe shop, and 
being a natural mechanic operates a regular wood-working establishment; 
manufactures tubs, churns, harrows and almost everything that is used on a farm.  
Politically he is a Democrat.  He and his wife are the parents of the following 
children:  Theresa A., Emery F., Augustus C. and Pius S.