BIO: Reuben 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 LIV.

                        NORTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

525  NORTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

  REUBEN FISHBURN, retired farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Carlisle, was 
born in Dauphin County, Penn., June 5, 1828, son of John and Catharine 
(Carmony) Fishburn, natives of Dauphin County and of German origin.  
John Fishburn was a farmer all his life.  Our subject is the eighth 
born in a family of ten children, nine of whom grew to manhood and 
womanhood.  He was reared on the farm and received his education in the 
common school in Dickinson Township, this county, where his parents had 
moved in 1832 and spent the remainder of their days.  Reuben wisely 
chose the occupation of his father as his own, and has succeeded in 
accumulating a fine share of this world's goods.  His farm consists of 
150 acres of land, mostly under a high state of cultivation and with 
first-class improvements.  On this farm is situated the meeting-house 
and Spring Grove grave-yard, said to be the oldest burying-ground in 
Cumberland County.  Mr. Fishburn retired from the active pursuits of 
life in 1881, but still resides on the farm.  He has been twice 
married, on first occasion, in 1855, to Rebecca Myers, who died in the 
same year.  In 1859 he married his present wife, whose maiden name was 
Sarah Elizabeth Peffer, and who is of German origin.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Fishburn have two daughters:  Anna and Edna, residing at home.  He and 
his wife are members of the Lutheran Church, in which he has been 
deacon for four years.  In politics he is a Republican.  He has served 
as school director in this township.