BIOGRAPHY: Aaron SHERBINE, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 395-6
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AARON SHERBINE, a self-made man and prosperous farmer of near Wilmore, is the 
eldest of the five sons of Daniel and Annie (Crum) Sherbine, and was born in 
Summerhill (now Croyle) township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1832. 
The Sherbines are of German ancestry, and most of the early members of the 
family in this country were members of the Lutheran church. The immigrant 
ancestor, Daniel Sherbine, was a strict Lutheran, and came to Pennsylvania 
before the Revolutionary War, in which he subsequently served as a Continental 
soldier. His son, Philip, was a native of Pennsylvania, and a miller by trade. 
He left Somerset county about the commencement of the present century, and 
settled in the vicinity of Johnstown. He was a lutheran and a democrat, and 
married a Miss Rummel, by whom he had ten children: Daniel, Mrs. Elizabeth Cole, 
Mrs. Margaret Gochnour, Mrs. Nancy Fishel, George, Jacob, Conrad, David, Mrs. 
Phoebe McCreery and Mrs. Christina Gochnour. Daniel Sherbine, the eldest son, 
was born in Somerset county in 1812, and died in the city of Altoona in June, 
1887. He was a miller by trade, but in middle life purchased a farm in Croyle 
township, and dealt to some extent in lumber in Summerhill township. He was an 
earnest Lutheran, and supported the Democratic party until the whigs went to 
pieces, and then became a republican. He was a careful business man, and a much-
respected citizen. Mr. Sherbine married Annie Crum, a daughter of Evan Crum, a 
native of Maryland and a resident of Croyle township. To Mr. and Mrs. Sherbine 
were born nine children, five sons and four daughters: Aaron; Philip, now 
deceased; George, a farmer of Summerhill township; Sarah, wife of Clarence 
Gonsaulus, of Altoona; Mary, who married John England, of Altoona; Catherine, 
wife of George Treese, of Gallitzin; Matilda, and Isaiah, who is engaged in 
farming in Summerhill township.
     Aaron Sherbine was reared on the farm, and carefully trained to all kinds 
of agricultural work in a day when machinery to lighten and save manual labor 
was but little known. He received his education in the common schools, and has 
followed farming all his life. In 1856 he rented his present farm, which he 
purchased in 1870. His farm of two hundred and sixty acres is highly productive 
and well improved, and underlaid with coal. In connection with farming, he was 
engaged for several years in the lumber business. Mr. Sherbine is a member of 
Lodge No. 537, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Wilmore, of which he is past 
grand, and has served continuously as treasurer since 1873, and has represented 
it as a delegate to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania five different times. He is 
a staunch republican in political affairs, and has served his township as 
supervisor for one term, as school director for two terms, and as justice of the 
peace one term of five years. He has fought the battle of life successfully in 
his chosen occupation of farming, where he has been successful in making a 
comfortable home for himself and acquiring a competency.
     On October 16, 1853, Aaron Sherbine was united in marriage with Caroline 
Crum, whose father, Ephraim Crum, was a resident of Croyle township. To their 
union have been born nine children, who grew to maturity: Milton A., an 
engineer, and resided at Summerhill; Samuel, Charles, Grant and George Lee, who 
are now dead; Lucy and Emma, at home; Joseph, deceased; and Lyman, who is 
successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits in Croyle township.