BIO: Samuel Christlieb, Cumberland County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Bookwalter Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/beers/beers.htm ______________________________________________________________________ PART II. HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA. CHAPTER LI. MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP. SAMUEL CHRISTLIEB, retired, Newville. In the year 1765 Frederick Carl Christlieb (grandfather of Samuel) emigrated, with his wife, sons Frederick Carl and Jacob and step-son George Buck, from Durkheim, Rhenish Bavaria, to America, landing at Baltimore, Md. The sons, who were in their minority, located near the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland and close to the Susquehanna River, where they remained for several years. The parents, soon after their arrival in Baltimore, found their way to Newville, this county, and were among the earliest German settlers in this locality. The mother died a few years, and her remains were interred in the Big Spring burial grounds. A few years later the father died while en route to physician's home in Virginia, where he hoped to get relief from the disease which caused his death. The family did not become permanently settled for several years after their arrival in America. Charles Christlieb and his step- brother George Buck came to Mifflin Township, and their brother Jacob settled in Virginia. Charles Christlieb was born in Germany in 1750. After his marriage with Catharine Umberger, of Lebanon, Penn., about 1780, he settled in Mifflin Township, this county. To this union were born six sons and one daughter: John, Charles, Solomon, George, Sarah (married to a Mr. Koutz), Isaac and Jacob (twins), who were born in 1791. Charles Christlieb died in 1837, aged eighty-seven, and his widow a few months later, aged ninety-three. Jacob, the father of our subject, was married, April 13, 1824, to Julia Ann Morritt, by whom he had two children: Samuel, Mary J., Ann, Elizabeth, Nancy, Sarah, David, Lavina, Levi and Ellen (twins). Jacob Christlieb was a quiet but enterprising farmer, and was noted for his liberality and Christian spirit. He was for almost three-quarters of a century a communing member of the Lutheran Church, and from 1833 he was a member of Zion Church at Newville. He died at the residence of his son Samuel, May, 9, 1884, aged ninety-three years, one month and 503 MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP. twenty-one days. His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. S. A. Diehl, from a text selected by himself, viz.: "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children." Luke xxiii, 28. He came "to the grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in its season." Three sons, seven daughters, forty-eight grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren yet remain to do honor to his good name. Our subject was born on the homestead October 10, 1826. In 1851 he married Matilda Hershey, of Mifflin Township, and their wedded life was commenced on her father's farm, where they remained twelve years. Their children, Esemiah C., Ida M. and William A., were born on that farm; thence Mr. Christlieb moved to a farm near Newburg, remaining there two years, when he returned to his father's homestead, where he remained until 1882, when he purchased a neighboring farm and erected an imposing residence, a large barn and commodious out- buildings, taking possession the same year. The eldest daughter is the wife of Henry J. Whistler; the other children reside at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Christlieb are a model couple and are reverenced in their neighborhood.