BIO: Theodore Cornman, 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 XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

371   BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  HON. THEODORE CORNMAN, attorney, Carlisle, was born in that place May 
11, 1836; attended the public schools of his native place, and served 
an apprenticeship at cabinet-making in the same town; and at the age of 
nineteen began teaching, and taught ten years in the public schools of 
Carlisle and two years in North Middleton Township, and 

372  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

during three years of that time read medicine in the office of Dr. S. 
B. Kieffer, and also, while teaching, studied law.  In 1868 he was 
elected to the Legislature from Cumberland County, and was re-elected 
to the same in 1869.  At the close of his second term he returned to 
Carlisle, and entered the law office of C. E. McLaughlin, with whom he 
furthered his studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1870, since which 
time he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession.  
In 1881, he, in partnership with William Vance and Samuel Site, 
organized the Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Carlisle, under the 
firm name of Vance & Company, manufacturers of sashes, doors, blinds, 
etc.  In 1884 he was elected a director of the school board of 
Carlisle, and is now serving in that capacity.  In 1875 he received the 
nomination of his district for Congress, but withdrew in favor of Col. 
Levi Maish.  December 20, 1859, Mr. Cornman was married to Miss Lydia 
Miller, a native of York County, and a daughter of Daniel and Eve 
Miller, old settlers of York County.  Our subject and wife have had 
four children, viz.:  George W., a tinner, who died in August, 1885, 
aged twenty-five years; Charles T., of the firm of Kissell & Cornman, 
dry goods merchants of Carlisle; Sarah E., who died young; and 
Theodore, a clerk and telegraph operator.  The mother died in October, 
1878, a member of the Reformed Church.  In December, 1880, Mr. Cornman 
married Miss Annie E. Green, a native of Cumberland County, and a 
daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Parks) Green, also natives of Cumberland 
County.  Mr. and Mrs. Cornman are members of the Reformed Church.  Mr. 
Cornman has passed all the chairs in Masonry and all the chairs in the 
I. O. O. F., and is a member of the I. O. H.  In politics he has always 
been a Democrat.  John Cornman, the father of our subject, was born in 
North Middleton Township, this county, in 1788, and died in 1861.  He 
was reared on a farm, but subsequently moved to Carlisle, where for 
years he was engaged in the hotel business.  His marriage with Anna M. 
Wonderlich, of Cumberland County, was blessed with ten children, five 
now living:  Ephraim, Ellen (who married Robert Harris), Frederick, 
Theodore, Joseph; those deceased are Daniel, Margaret (intermarried 
with John H. Fredrick), John, Alexander and Franklin.  The father was a 
member of the Reformed Church, and the mother of the Lutheran.  The 
father, John Cornman, was a son of Valentine Cornman, a native of 
Germany, who settled in Cumberland County in an early day and engaged 
in farming.