BIO: Joseph Feeman, 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 XLIX.

          LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF NEW CUMBERLAND.

493  LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

  JOSEPH FEEMAN, retired, New Cumberland.  In 1790, Adam Feeman, the 
grandfather of Joseph Feeman came from Lancaster County, Penn., and 
purchased the farm now the property of John Feeman, and here reared a 
family of four children:  Valentine, the youngest son, born in 1783 and 
died in 1843, married Margaret Shafer, by whom he had eight children, 
of whom six reached adult age; John, Adam, Elizabeth, Joseph, Valentine 
and Susan.  Of these, John, who has remained a bachelor, owns the 
homestead; Adam married Nancy Kirk; Elizabeth is the wife of Rudolph 
Martin; Joseph married, in 1840, Eliza Prowell, who bore him six 
children, only one now living - Susan, wife of Charles Hoot, and a 
resident of Harrisburg (Mrs. Joseph Feeman died in 1880, after forty 
years of happy domestic life); Valentine married Matilda Lutz, of 
Harrisburg, Penn., and Susan is the wife of James Eckels, of this 
county.  The old homestead has been made a beautiful farm by three 
generations of Feemans, who have converted it from a dense woodland 
into a fertile tract of land.  The old house, which was erected prior 
to the purchase by Adam Feeman, has undergone extensive repairs; 
beneath its hospitable roof three generations have been born and 
reared.  Comparatively few of the race now remain who can hand down a 
name that for 136 years has been familiar in the history of the 
township.  The two brothers, John and Joseph, live a retired life in 
the village of New Cumberland, and are both easy in a financial way, 
having lived an economical and unostentatious life.