BIO:  William WIBLE, Cumberland 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 404

WILLIAM WIBLE, farmer, P.O. Gettysburg, was born in Straban Township, Adams Co., 
Penn., November 3, 1825, and is of German descent.  He was reared in this 
county, where he received a common school education, and engaged in farming, 
which in the main has been his vocation.  He started out in the world a poor 
boy, but by industry and economy has succeeded in accumulating a competency, his 
acres at one time numbering over 225, a portion of which he recently sold to the 
Battlefield Memorial Association, which leaves him a farm of 195 acres of well 
improved land.  Much of the second day’s battle of July, 1863, was fought on his 
farm.  Mr. Wible is a reading man, and is one of Adams County’s most 
enterprising and intelligent citizens.  In 1849 he was married to Rosanna 
Elizabeth Boyer, of German origin, and to them have been born seven children who 
are now living:  George, a farmer; Charles Philip; Kent Kane, a resident of 
California and a graduate of Pennsylvania College; Henry Baugher, a carpenter 
and farmer; David Buchler, William Frederick and Cora Boyer.  The parents are 
members of the Lutheran Church, in which Mr. Wible has been a deacon and an 
elder for twenty-five years; he also acted in the capacity of superintendent of 
the Sunday-school.  He has served as a school director.  He is a Master Mason.  
In politics a Republican.