BIO:  Peter SHIVELY, Hamiltonban 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 447

PETER SHIVELY, hotel keeper, Fairfield, is a native of Chambersburg, Franklin 
Co., Penn.  His grandfather, on his father’s side, was born in Perry County, 
Penn., and on his mother’s side his grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, who 
settled in Chambersburg after the war.  His father, Daniel Shively, was born in 
Perry County, Penn., in 1780, and came to Chambersburg when a young man, living 
there until his death; he died in 1863 at the age of eighty-three.  Our 
subject’s mother, nee Elizabeth Hennaberger, born in Chambersburg in 1786, died 
there in 1861, aged seventy-five.  They had nine children:  Catherine, widow of 
Emanuel Gipe, living in Harrisburg; Eliza, widow of William Deckert, living in 
Blairsville, Indiana Co., Penn; Maria, widow of Benjamin Keefer, living in 
Chambersburg; William, married to Elizabeth Minafee, who died in the spring of 
1886 (he lives in Lafayette, Ind.); Indiana, widow of Louis Wamfler, living in 
Chambersburg; John, living in Chambersburg, Penn.; Peter, our subject; Susan, 
who was married to John McCleary, of Chambersburg, both deceased; and Mary Ann, 
who died when quite young.  Peter Shively was born July 16, 1819, and in his 
youth learned the trade of a saddler, which he worked at only a few years.  In 
1841 he came to Fairfield, and kept hotel for three years, then the hotel at 
Gettysburg, known as the “Eagle Hotel,” for three years, and then he returned to 
Fairfield, and bought the “Mansion House” property, which he has ever since 
conducted.  March 19, 1845, Mr. Shively was married to Elizabeth J. Gelbach, 
born April 23, 1826, whose ancestry is given under the name of John Gelbach.  
Our subject and wife have had five children:  Laura C., born May 21, 1846, wife 
of Joseph Sullivan, who is traveling in the West, while she makes her home with 
her parents (she has two sons, one of whom, Charles, is now in the drug store of 
his uncle in Waynesboro, and Percy, with an uncle in the produce business in 
Monrovia, Md.); and the other children are Mary Elizabeth, born December 12, 
1849, wife of J. Upton Neely, of Fairfield, ex-member of the State Legislature; 
William M., born May 11, 1852, died November 21, 1859; George G., born March 20, 
1854, married to Miss Jennie Shaeffer, of Lancaster (he is a physician and 
druggist in Waynesboro); and John Charles, born September 1, 1856, died December 
7, 1859.  Mr. Shively is a member of Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 336, A.F. & A.M., 
of Gettysburg; also a member of York Springs Lodge, No. 211, I.O.O.F., of Adams 
County, Penn.  He is a member of the Reformed Church of Fairfield, to the 
erecting of a church building for which body he contributed liberally.  In 
politics he is a Republican.