BIO: Rudolph 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 XLIV.

                           DICKINSON TOWNSHIP.

  RUDOLPH FISHBURN, P. O. Greason or Carlisle, was born in Dauphin 
County, Penn., April 3, 1824.  His parents, John and Catherine 
(Carmany) Fishburn, natives of Pennsylvania, settled in Dickinson 
Township, this county, in 1832.  Their children were:  Philip 
(deceased), John, Anthony, Mrs. Barbara Myers, Mrs. Helena Myers, 
Rudolph, Adam, Reuben and Mrs. Maria Lee.  The parents of these 
children acquired a fine estate of over 500 acres of land in this 
county.  The father died in April, 1861, aged seventy-seven years, and 
the mother in April, 1875, aged eighty-three years.  They were upright  

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pioneer people, and their memory will long be cherished by those who 
knew them.  Rudolph Fishburn, the subject of this sketch, married, 
November 17, 1857.  Mary Magdalena Lehman, a native of South Middleton 
Township, this county, born near Mount Holly Springs.  Her father, Adam 
Lehman, a native of Tolpenhocken, Berks Co., Penn., came to this county 
when a young man, and married here Miss Magdalena Burkholder, a native 
of South Middleton Township, this county, and they lived long and 
active lives in that township, until his death, May 25, 1845.  His 
widow passed her last days with her daughter, Mrs. Fishburn, dying 
March 21, 1871, in her eightieth year.  She and her husband were 
members of the Lutheran Church at Carlisle.  They acquired an estate of 
three farms, and were among the prosperous and influential residents of 
this county.  Of their ten children six are living:  Daniel, David, 
Mrs. Fishburn, Mrs. Sarah Sener, Mrs. Margaret Wolf and Samuel.  Those 
deceased are John, Elizabeth, Adam and William.  Since their marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Fishburn have resided on their present farm in Dickinson 
Township, where they have 110 acres of fine land, well improved, on 
which is an elegant stone residence.  Mr. Fishburn is a member of the 
Lutheran Church.  He is a man of frank and generous nature, and has 
many friends.  In politics he is a Republican.