Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....SHUMAN, Jesse E. 1869 - living in 1899
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  DR. JESSE E. SHUMAN, who has a thorough knowledge of the medical profession, has
  been actively engaged in practice in the village of Jerseytown since 1891 and is
  patronized by the leading citizens of that vicinity. He is a son of John W. and
  Harriet (John) Shuman, and was born July 30, 1869, in Mainville, Columbia County.
  
    The Shuman family is of German descent and has been connected with the history
  of Columbia County for many years back. Jacob Shuman located where the village
  of Mainville now is about the year 1802, being one of the early settlers of that
  community. He settled upon the farm on which his son, John W., now resides, and
  there conducted an inn and followed the occupation of a farmer the remainder of
  his life. He also engaged in lumbering. Religiously he was a faithful member of
  the Lutheran Church. He was united in marriage to Mary Miller of Limeridge,
  Columbia County, by whom he had four children: Abraham, a farmer of Morris
  County, Kans.; John W., our subject's father; Erastus, a broker of Fort Wayne,
  Ind.; and Lloyd, a farmer of Catawissa township.
  
    John W. Shuman was born on the old homestead at Mainville, April 30, 1847,
  where he is now residing and is engaged in agricultural pursuits. For a time he
  was engaged in lumbering and in lime-burning at Limeridge, but later turned his
  attention to farming. He owns 204 acres of land under a high state of
  cultivation, upon which is a good home and fine buildings. Mr. Shuman is a man
  of high ideals, is well informed on subjects of current interest, and stands
  high in the estimation of his fellow-citizens. At the age of sixteen years he
  displayed his patriotism by volunteering his services to the cause of the Union,
  and served for a period of nine months. Politically he is a Democrat and has
  served as justice of the peace about thirteen years. In religious attachments he
  is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee and an
  active worker. Socially he is a member of Catawissa Lodge, F. & A. M.; and of
  the Patriotic Order Sons of America of Mainville. He was joined in wedlock to
  Harriet John, a daughter of Jesse John, who was formerly a farmer of Catawissa
  township, but now resides with Mr. Shuman. This happy union resulted in the
  following issue: Dr. Jesse E., in whom the interest of this sketch centers;
  Warren, a student of Dickinson College; Myron, a student of the Bloomsburg State
  Normal School; Howard; and Edith.
  
    Dr. Jesse E. Shuman, after completing the prescribed course in the Bloomsburg
  State Normal School, taught for three terms, and in 1888 began the study of
  medicine with Dr. J. J. Brown of Bloomsburg. He then took a course in the
  University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in May, 1891. Immediately
  thereafter he took up his practice at Jerseytown, Madison township, where he has
  remained from that time to this. He acquired a large and lucrative practice and
  quickly won his way to the good-will of the citizens of that section,
  establishing an enduring reputation as a skilful physician and surgeon. He is of
  genial and good-natured disposition and has many friends among his patients. He
  is vice-president of the Columbia County Medical Society and of the State
  Medical Society of Pennsylvania.
  
     January 1, 1892, Dr. Shuman was joined in hymeneal bonds to Mary John, a
  daughter of the late Briton and Hannah (Fetterolf) John. Mr. John was killed by
  being kicked by a horse at a comparatively young age. One daughter, Harriet
  John, has blessed our subject's home. Fraternally our subject is a Mason and
  belongs to Washington Lodge No. 265 of Bloomsburg. Both Mr. and Mrs. Shuman are
  members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Jerseytown, Pa.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
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