BIO:  Edward SHORB, 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 395

EDWARD SHORB, farmer, McSherrystown, is a worthy representative of the Shorb 
family of pioneers, and was born November 1, 1824, on the old homestead in Union 
Township, Adams Co., Penn., where his brother, Squire Joseph L. Shorb, still 
resides.  His parents were John and Mary (Beecher) Shorb.  Our subject was 
educated in the county, has been a farmer nearly all his life, and for the last 
fourteen years has been living in McSherrystown, on the plot where his 
grandmother, Mary (Obold) Shorb, resided for many years.  Edward Shorb was 
married here, December 27, 1859, to Miss Sarah C., daughter of Samuel and Mary 
(Smith) Sneeringer.  Mr. and Mrs. Shorb are members of the Conowago Chapel.  He 
has never been an office seeker, and has been identified with the Democratic 
party all his life.  He owns several farms, which comprise from 250 to 300 acres 
of good limestone land.  As a farmer he has been successful, and has decided to 
pass the evening of his life in the village of McSherrystown, where he enjoys 
the esteem and good-will of his fellow townsmen.