BIO: Thomas R. Burgner, 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 LX.

                       WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

576  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  THOMAS R. BURGNER, miller, P. O. Plainfield, was born July 14, 1838, 
in Lebanon County, Penn., son of Jacob and Anna Maria (Raub) Burgner 
(the latter was a member of an old and influential family in this 
county).  They located on the old homestead of Mr. Burgner's family, 
where Mrs. Burgner still resides at an advanced age, but in robust 
health.  Mr. Burgner died July 13, 1886, aged seventy-four years.  Our 
subject, the eldest in a family of ten children, learned the miller's 
trade in 1854; enlisted.  October 17, 1862, in the Third Pennsylvania 
Artillery, and was assigned to the Army of the James.  Early in 1863 he 
was recommended, and passed an examination, for the position of 
military librarian, and had charge of the historical collections and 
artillery-school stores at Fortress 

577  WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

Monroe, Va., until the expiration of his term, and during this time he 
also held the position of reporter for general courts-martial and 
military commissions.  He was discharged October 17, 1865, bearing an 
excellent military record.  Our subject was married, December 1, 1857, 
to Miss Lizzie Eckert, of Newville, this county, a daughter of John 
Eckert, who was born near Carlisle, this county, moved to Virginia in 
1860, and died in 1880 at the age of eighty years.  The children of Mr. 
and Mrs. Burgner were Mary Agnes, John E., of Nebraska, Alice C., 
Francis Henry (deceased), Lizzie A., Emma C., Ida Margery, Beckie Ray, 
Thomas U. S., Carrie Lucretia and Arthur LeRoy.  Mr. Burgner has spent 
three years in the nursery and mercantile business at Shiremanstown, 
six years in the employ, as miller, of T. B. Bryson, of Mechanicsburg, 
and for the past twelve years has been engaged in milling on 
Conodoguinet Creek, this township.  He was elected auditor of 
Cumberland County, on the Republican ticket, in 1875; re-elected in 
1878, and during his term of service many reforms were accomplished in 
county affairs, due to his energy and interest in the welfare of the 
people.  Personally Mr. Burgner is a gentleman of portly and commanding 
physique, genial and courteous disposition, and has a host of warm 
friends in Cumberland County