BIO: Michael F. Anthony, 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 XLVI.

                            FRANKFORD TOWNSHIP. 

  M. F. ANTHONY, farmer, P. O. Bloserville, is a grandson of John 
Anthony, who was brought to this country an infant, about 130 years 
ago, from Germany.  His parents settled in Adams County, near Hanover, 
where he lived until his death.  He married Margaret Huffman, and they 
had six children:  Michael, Elizabeth, Margaret, Catherine, Lena and 
John.  Of these, John, the sole survivor, married Margaret Shaeffer, of 
North Middleton Township, and lives a few miles from Carlisle.  
Michael, father of our subject, was born June 23, 1791, and died 
October 5, 1859.  His wife was Eva Doyhl, who was born June 1, 1792, 
and died January 15, 1864.  They had six children, one dying in 
infancy.  The others were:  Catharine, wife of Henry Neff, of Newville; 
Margaret, wife of John Fenton, of Newville; Sarah, wife of Joseph 
McDermond, of Mifflin Township; John, who died when fifteen years old, 
and Michael F., who was born January 2, 1826, two miles from Carlisle, 
in North Middleton Township.  He worked as a weaver for fifteen years, 
when he began farming, first in Mifflin Township, for two years, then 
in Newton Township eight years; lived a year in Newville, and then 
returned to North Middleton, where he resided eight years, when he came 
to the farm which he and his wife own in Frankford Township.  In 1854 
he married Miss Sarah Asper, who was born April 15, 1831, and died 
January 15, 1864, the mother of one child, who died young.  January 9, 
1872, Mr. Anthony married Mrs. Mary Ann Allen, widow of George Allen, 
who was a Miss Barley.

477  FRANKFORD TOWNSHIP.

They have two children:  Sarah Catharine, born August 3, 1872, and 
David Edward, born March 1, 1880.  Mr. Anthony is a member of the 
Lutheran Church, a man of high character and probity.

1870 Newton Township, Cumberland County census -
John Fenton, 35 
Margaret Fenton, 38 
Elizabeth Fenton, 73 
Michael Anthony, 44