BIO: Anthony Fishburn, Cumberland County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Bookwalter Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/beers/beers.htm ______________________________________________________________________ PART II. HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA. CHAPTER XXXVIII. BOROUGH OF CARLISLE. 373 BOROUGH OF CARLISLE. ANTHONY FISHBURN, retired farmer, Carlisle, is a great-grandson of Philip Fischborn, born in Plannich der Churfatz, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, May 7, 1722 and who immigrated to America and settled in Derry Township, Dauphin Co., Penn., in 1749. He married Miss Catherine E. Bretz, whose birth occurred September 27, 1724, and to them five sons and four daughters were born: Margaretta, John Philip, Ludweg, Peter, Magdalena, Anthony, Dietrich, Catherine and Anna Maria. John Philip Fishburn was born in Derry Township, Dauphin Co., Penn., November 15, 1754, and was twice married: first, August 14, 1780, to Miss Barbara Greiner, who bore him six children, as follows: Catherine E., Magdalena, John, Anthony, Margaret and Anthony (second), two of whom only lived to maturity - John and Anthony (second). The mother died June 19, 1790. John Philip married, December 25, 1792, for his second wife Miss Anna M. Hack, who was born June 9, 1771, and became the mother of twelve children, ten of whom lived to be grown: Eve, Barbara, Jacob, Michael, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Jonas, Sophia, Thomas and Joshua. John, son of John Philip and Barbara (Greiner) Fishburn, was born in Derry Township, Dauphin Co., Penn., December 12, 1784; married Miss Catherine Carmana November 26, 1809, and to them were born six sons and four daughters (nine of whom lived to be men and women): Philip, John, Anthony, Barbara, Hannah C., Helena, Rudolph, Adam, Reuben and Maria. The father died April 11, 1861, and the mother, who was born April 9, 1791, died March 15, 1874. Anthony Fishburn, their son, and the subject of this sketch, removed with his parents from Dauphin County to this county in 1832, and settled in Dickinson Township. He was occupied at farming with his father until his marriage, February 15, 1842, with Miss Salome Ann LeFevre, when he settled on his farm in Dickinson Township. She was born June 12, 1824, in West Pennsborough Township, being a daughter of Lawrence and Salome (Line) Le Fevre, the former of whom was born near Wrightsville, York Co., Penn., a son of George and Anna Barbara (Slaymaker) Le Fevre (the Slaymakers being of German and the Le Fevres of French descent). George Le Fevre was a grandson of Isaac Le Fevre, a French Huguenot, who immigrated to America to escape religious persecution. He landed in Boston in 1708, and settled in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1712, having been married in France to Miss Catherine Fierre, a daughter of Daniel and Maria (Warrenbuer) Fierre. Isaac Le Fevre, with his sons, came to Chester, now Lancaster County, and located near Strasburg, where some of their descendants still reside. Phillip, Isaac Le Fevre's second son, born March 16, 1710, in Boston, had eight children: Isaac, George, Adam, Jacob, Catherine, Esther, Eve and Elizabeth. George married Anna Barbara Slaymaker, who bore him twelve children: Elizabeth, Lawrence, Isaac, Mary, Jacob, George, Adam, Peter, Anna Barbara, Samuel, John and Daniel. Lawrence was married twice; first to Miss Veronica Alter, in May, 1792, and they had the following named children: Margaret and George died young, Jacob, Elizabeth, John, Isaac, Fannie, Esther, David Alter and Joseph Ritner. The mother died October 15, 1817. Lawrence Le Fevre married for his second wife Miss Salome Line, October 29, 1822, and they had one daughter, Salome Ann, wife of Anthony Fishburn. To our subject and wife have been born three children: Philip H., born January 23, 1843, and died February 11, 1845; Anna Maria, born January 19, 1851, died March 3, 1855; and Louisa Elbe, born December 26, 1860, resides at home with her parents. Mr. Fishburn retired from the farm March 19, 1885, and built his present brick residence on the southeast corner of Pomfret and West Streets. He is one of the representative men of Cumberland County, with whose interests he has been identified since he was sixteen years of age, and stands high in the estimation of all as an upright citizen and Christian gentleman. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church.