BIO: Henry Doner, 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.

578  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  HENRY DONER, retired farmer, Plainfield, was born August 4, 1818, in 
West Pennsborough Township, this county.  His parents, Daniel and 
Elizabeth Doner, of Lancaster County, Penn., located in Frankford 
Township, Cumberland County, Penn., in 1805, and after four years 
finally settled in West Pennsborough Township, where they took up a new 
farm, which they cleared and developed.  They raised a family of ten 
children, all of whom married:  Mrs. Elizabeth Hale died at Upper 
Sandusky, Ohio; Abraham (deceased); Daniel died in Johnson County, 
Iowa; John, in Pennsborough Township; Nancy Waggoner, of Newville; 
Jacob; Mrs. Fannie Line (deceased); Mrs. Maria Rudy, of Dauphin County, 
Penn.; Henry and David.  Mr. Doner died February 25, 1853, in his 
seventy-second year; his widow followed him March 7, 1875, at the 
advanced age of ninety-six years, two months and twenty-six days.  They 
were industrious pioneers, and their memory will long be honored.  Our 
subject was brought up on the farm on which he now resides, and 
received his education in the schools of the home district.  August 3, 
1848, he married Miss Mary Ann Leidick, of Silver Spring Township, this 
county, where she was born March 2, 1830, daughter of John and Margaret 
(Albert) Leidick, natives of this county, where they passed their 
entire lives.  Mr. and Mrs. Doner have resided on the homestead farm 
ever since their marriage, and own a fine farm of 135 acres of fertile 
and well improved land, with elegant residence and out-buildings.  To 
them were born four children:  Elizabeth Ann, who died at seven years 
of age; Mrs. Margaret Ellen Bear, living on the homestead; Henry 
Calvin, who died in his twenty-second year, and Mrs. Laura May Moyer, 
who died in her twenty-first year.  Mr. and Mrs. Doner are consistent 
members of the Lutheran Church.  Mr. Doner is a Republican in politics.  
He is an upright, useful citizen, a man of firm principles, and enjoys 
the highest respect and esteem of the community.