BIO: J. D. Bashore, 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. D. BASHORE, dentist, Shippensburg, was born in Franklin County, 
Penn., October 25, 1859, son of Emanuel and Elizabeth (Rebuck) Bashore, 
natives of Pennsylvania, and of German descent.  Emanuel Bashore was a 
tanner by occupation for nearly forty years, and still resides in 
Franklin County, Penn.  Of his five children Dr. J. D. is the youngest.  
Our subject was reared on the farm, and received his schooling in 
Franklin County, Penn.  At the age of nineteen years he commenced the 
study of dentistry, and afterward attended the Baltimore College of 
Dental Surgery, where he graduated in 1880, and the same year he 
commenced the practice of his profession in Shippensburg, where he has 
met with marked success.  He was married, in 1883, to Madge L. Hartley, 
and they have one child, E. Gorgas.  The Doctor and wife are members of 
the Reformed Church in Shippensburg, of the Sunday-school of which he 
is a treasurer.