BIO: Jacob Emminger, 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.

411  BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

  JACOB EMMINGER, retired farmer, Mechanicsburg, was born near Quincy, 
Wash-

412  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

ington Township, Franklin Co., Penn., October 21, 1816, son of David 
and Magdalena (Miller) Emminger, natives of Silver Spring Township, 
this county, and Washington Township, Franklin Co. Penn., respectively, 
and parents of ten children.  Jacob, the second son and third child, 
was ten years old when he came with his parents to Silver Spring 
Township, this county, where he worked on his father's farm, attending 
school during winters.  He was married on the old farm, January 2, 
1840, to Miss Sarah Lehn, a native of Silver Spring Township, this 
county, daughter of David and Christina (Barnhart) Lehn.  After his 
marriage Mr. Emminger farmed in Silver Spring Township until 1861, when 
he bought his present place in Upper Allen Township, where he remained 
until 1869 and then moved to Mechanicsburg and purchased his home on 
the corner of Market and Green Streets.  To Mr. and Mrs. Emminger were 
born six children, four now living; Susannah E. (wife of Jacob D. 
Raffensberger, a music dealer in Mechanicsburg), Mary C. (wife of John 
C. Bowman, justice of the peace and merchant in Mechanicsburg), Mary C. 
(wife of John C. Bowman, justice of the peace and merchant in 
Mechanicsburg), Naomi J. (wife of Henry Hertzler, a farmer in Upper 
Allen Township), Martin L. (who resides at Yonkers, N. Y., a grocer and 
merchant, married to Miss Mary J., daughter of Dr. Ringland).  Mrs. 
Emminger died in March, 1874, a member of the Lutheran Church.  Our 
subject is not only a representative of one of the oldest families of 
Cumberland County, but is one of the enterprising farmers and citizens.  
He stands high in the estimation of all who know him as an upright 
Christian gentleman.  He is a member of the Lutheran Church.