BIO:  Noah SHEELY, 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 412

NOAH SHEELY, farmer, P.O. Cashtown, was born in 1838.  His grandfather, Andrew 
Sheely was born in this county and married a Miss Diehl, of York County, whose 
family history appears in sketches of the Diehls.  Jacob, their eldest son, a 
farmer, was born in 1812, in Mountjoy Township, on the Mansion farm, now owned 
by John Hartman.  He married Mary Hartman, about 1832, who bore him ten 
children:  Andrew, Agnes, Aaron (the present county superintendent of schools, 
and who wrote the chapters on Natural History and Education for this volume), 
Noah (subject), Catharine, Ephraim, Jacob, Daniel, Eli and Mary.  Jacob kept a 
hotel on the Baltimore Pike, near Newman’s tavern, for a number of years, in 
company with his brother-in-law, Jacob Hartman.  He afterward purchased a farm 
in Mountjoy Township, and later moved to another purchase near by; thence came 
to Franklin Township, and purchased a large tract of land, most of which he 
improved, and on which he remained during his life.  Two of his sons have been 
for many years practical teachers of Adams County, and all of them have a 
practical business education.  In 1866 Noah married Rebecca McElwone, of Union 
Township.  In their present home they began housekeeping, and in the stone 
mansion their eight children were born.  Our subject has accumulated a large 
property, and is one of the representative farmers of Franklin Township.  His 
children inherit a name that has been familiar for more than a century in Adams 
County, and one which has been associated with enterprise and education 
continually.  Mr. Sheely is the largest fruit grower in Adams County, having 
2,000 fruit-bearing trees, 700 York stripe, 1,000 York imperial, 300 of 
varieties-all winter apples.