BIO: Adam Fishburn, 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.

373   BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  ADAM FISHBURN, retired farmer, Carlisle, is a son of John and 
Catherine (Carmany) Fishburn, natives, the former of Dauphin County, 
and the latter of Lebanon County, Penn.  Our subject is the fifth son, 
and eighth in a family of ten children, nine of whom lived to be men 
and women, and was born three miles east of Hummelstown, Dauphin Co., 
Penn., March 6, 1826.  The family, in 1832, moved to this county, and 
settled on the farm in Dickinson Township now owned by Adam.  Our 
subject remained on the homestead, attending school in the winter 
seasons, and at his father's death inherited the farm, where he 
remained until 1883, when he purchased his present property on

374  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

West South Street, Carlisle, building the house.  Mr. Fishburn was 
twice married; first, January 26, 1854, to Miss Ellen J. Kenyon, a 
native of Dickinson Township, a daughter of Samuel M. and Sarah Jane 
(Kinkaid) Kenyon, and to this union was born, December 19, 1854, one 
son, Samuel K., now a resident of Dickinson Township, and engaged in 
farming on the old homestead.  His marriage occurred April 15, 1879, 
with Miss Annie M. Lee, a native of Dickinson Township, and a daughter 
of Thomas and Elizabeth (Myers) Lee.  Both are members of the church; 
he of the Lutheran, and she of the Episcopal.  They have two children:  
Mary L. and Fred C.  The wife of our subject died December 28, 1854, 
and Mr. Fishburn December 8, 1859, married Miss Catherine E. 
Heffelbower, a native of Newton Township, but reared in West 
Pennsborough Township, a daughter of George and Catherine (Au) 
Heffelbower, natives of Cumberland County.  Two children were born to 
this union, both dying in infancy.  Mr. Fishburn is one of the 
enterprising, representative farmers, business men and citizens of the 
county, and stands high in the estimation of all as an honest man and a 
Christian gentleman.  Both he and his wife are members of the Lutheran 
Church.