BIO:  George W. SCHWARTZ, Franklin 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 411

GEORGE W. SCHWARTZ, farmer, P.O. Cashtown.  The great-grandfather of this 
gentleman came from Germany, and settled in York County, where he married and 
reared a family.  He had three sons:  Jacob, Philip and John.  The first named, 
the grandfather of our subject, was born in 1783.  He married Mary M. Geiselman, 
of East Berlin, and, about 1808, settled near Abbottstown, in Berwick Township, 
upon the farm now owned by John Mummert.  After residing there several years, 
during which time his children Michael, Ruphena, Jacob, Mary M., Daniel, Elias, 
Moses, Elizabeth, Lydia and John were born, they moved to a farm near 
Gettysburg, upon which two more children were born-Margaret and Henry.  There 
the father remained until he discontinued farming, when he and his wife moved to 
Gettysburg, and later to a small farm near Littlestown, where they remained 
until their death, he being about eighty and she seventy-seven years of age.  
They died within a few weeks of each other, but both lived to see the country 
well developed, but the close of the war had not come.  Eli and Margaret are the 
only members of this large family who do not reside in Adams County, and seven 
are yet living.  Eli is a minister of the Lutheran faith, at DeSoto, Ill.  Moses 
Schwartz, the father of George W. Schwartz, was born in 1817, received a 
practical education at the common schools, and chose the vocation of farming.  
In 1832 he married Mary E. Duttera, of Union Township, this county, and began 
married life on the farm now owned by Samuel Schwartz; five years later he 
purchased the farm; then, nine years afterward, purchased a farm near 
Littlestown; nine years after that he purchased a large farm near Cashtown, to 
which he removed, and in 1871 he purchased his present farm and a residence in 
Cashtown.  To him and his wife seven children were born, three now living:  
George W., Elizabeth (wife of McLean Miller) and Emma J. (who resides with her 
parents).  Our subject was born October 10, 1847, and is from choice a farmer.  
March 2, 1876, he married Harriet E. Loahr, and their domestic life was begun 
upon the farm adjoining the village of Cashtown, the last farm purchased by his 
father.  One daughter, Mary E., died in infancy.  Mrs. Schwartz’s father, Samuel 
Loahr, was born in Gettysburg, son of Jacob and Catherine (Zeigler) Loahr, who 
afterward lived on a farm from which the first cannon was fired, in front of 
their house, at the beginning of the battle of Gettysburg.