BIO: J. C. Altick, 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 XL.

                        BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG. 

442  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  J. C. ALTICK, druggist, Shippensburg, was born in Shippensburg, 
Penn., November 18, 1832, son of John and Elizabeth (Byerley) Altick, 
natives of this county, former of whom was a manufacturer of wagons, 
plows and farming implements, in which branch of industry he was 
engaged in Shippensburg for many years; he died in 1882.  J. C. Altick, 
the fourth in a family of ten children, grew to manhood in 
Shippensburg, chose the drug business for his occupation, and has been 
engaged in that line in Shippensburg for over forty years.  He is a 
Republican in politics, and has been burgess for two terms.  He is a 
prominent member of the I. O. O. F.; is also a Master Mason.