BIO: Jeremiah Allen, Sr., Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVII.

                         SOUTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP.

545  SOUTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP.

  JEREMIAH ALLEN, SR., retired farmer, P. O. Shippensburg, was born in 
Lehigh County, Penn., April 4, 1818, son of Americus and Rachel 
(Swigert) Allen, natives of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, 
respectively.  His grandfather, Jeremiah Allen, was a captain in the 
artillery during the Revolutionary war, and received a slight wound at 
the battle of Bunker Hill.  Our subject's father, who was a farmer, and 
came to Pennsylvania in an early day, enlisted in the war of 1812, but 
was never called into active service.  Jeremiah Allen is the second 
child in a family of eight, seven of whom survive.  His elder brother, 
Samuel, is a farmer in Southampton Township, this county, and is three 
years, three months and three days older than Jeremiah.  Our subject 
was reared on the farm, and attended the common school in this county.  
He chose farming as his occupation, and is now owner of 133 acres of 
well improved land, on which he resides.  He was happily married, in 
1844, to Angeline, daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Line) Myers, who were 
of English descent, former of whom, a farmer, was born and reared in 
this county.  To our subject and wife were born eight children, seven 
of whom are now living:  Eveline, wife of James Waddle; Americus M., a 
farmer, and married; Isabella M., widow of Ira Long (deceased); 
Margaret E., wife of Cyrus Railing; Jacob, married and a farmer; 
William L., married, and manages the home farm; and Jeremiah F., 
married and a farmer.  In 1844 our subject and wife united with the 
Lutheran Church at Newville, Penn.  He takes an active interest in the 
Sabbath-school, and has been superintendent, and for many years he was 
deacon and trustee of the church.  He has served nine years as school 
director.  In his younger days he took an active interest in the I. O. 
O. F.  He was a member of the old-fashioned State militia, and has 
taken part in many parades, sometimes using a cornstalk as a substitute 
for a gun.