BIO: Abner C. Brindle, 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 XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

407  BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

  ABNER C. BRINDLE, cashier of the First National Bank, Mechanicsburg, 
is a descendant of one of the oldest families of Cumberland County and 
Pennsylvania.  His grandfather, George Brindle, who was born in 
Lancaster County, Penn., came to this county when a young man, and was 
married here to Miss Elizabeth Bricker.  They had six children:  Susan, 
John, George, Peter, Elizabeth and Solomon.  John, the second born, 
married Miss Mary Baker.  He and his wife were members of the Dunkard 
Church.  They had a family of twelve children, eleven now living:  
John, Daniel (deceased), George, Elizabeth, Peter, Elias, Jesse, Mary, 
Leah, Rebecca, Susan and Abner C.  The subject of our sketch, the 
youngest in the family, was born six miles southwest of Mechanicsburg, 
in Monroe Township, September 17, 1837.  He worked on his father's 
farm, attending and teaching school, and acting as clerk in a store 
until 1863, when he was employed as clerk in a wholesale tobacco house 
in Philadelphia, remaining in the tobacco house and as clerk in a dry 
good store until February, 1864, when he was appointed teller in the 
First National Bank at Carlisle, Penn., and in February, 1865, was 
elected teller of the First National Bank of Mechanicsburg.  In 
November, 1868, he was elected cashier and he has held that position 
ever since.  In 1862 he responded to a call from the governor of 
Pennsylvania, as a member of the Pennsylvania State Militia, and in 
1863 enlisted in the Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania State Militia, 
under Col. John Murphy, and was mustered out at the expiration of the 
company's term of enlistment, at Philadelphia, in September, 1863.  Mr. 
Brindle married, December 3, 1868, Miss Mary E. Egbert, born in Perry 
County, Penn., daughter of I. R. and Sara (Carver) Egbert, the former a 
retired merchant, of Carlisle, both natives of Montgomery County, Penn.  
To our subject and wife have been born two children, one living, 
Charles E., born in Mechanicsburg September 30, 1870.  Mrs. Brindle is 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Our subject is a great-
grandson of Peter Bricker, born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1735, 
and married to Miss Mary Barr; settled in Cumberland County, Penn., in 
an early day; he was a son of Peter Bricker, who came to this country 
from Switzerland in the early part of the eighteenth century.