BIO: J. C. Fosnot, 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 XLI.

                         BOROUGH OF NEWVILLE. 

450  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  J. C. FOSNOT, editor Star and Enterprise, Newville, is a son of Jacob 
and Mary Fosnot, natives of Cumberland County, and who had twelve 
children:  William C., J. C., Peter T., Joshua V., Edward W., Lewis O., 
Henry J., Elizabeth A., Mary Jane, Margaret E., Sarah C. and Martha M.  
Our subject was born October 3, 1831; learned the trade of a weaver, 
and later clerked in his uncle's store in Newburg.  In 1856?? He bought 
the Oakville store, which he kept for eighteen years, at the same time 
- three years, from 1866 to 1869 - being engaged in business in 
Baltimore.  In May, 1871, in order to give employment to two brothers, 
he started the Oakville Enterprise, which, in December, 1874, he 
removed to Newville, and has since then devoted himself assiduously to 
it with gratifying results.  Instead of a six-column, four-page, it is 
now a seven-column, eight-page paper, the largest in the whole 
Cumberland Valley.  January 1, 1885, he bought the Star of the Valley, 
which his son George B. McC. conducted for one year, when Mr. Fosnot 
united it with the Enterprise under the name of the Star and 
Enterprise.  The double paper is achieving a rare success.  October 5, 
1855, Mr. Fosnot was married to Elizabeth Ferguson, who has born him 
six children:  Laura Belle, Maggie R., Lou Ella, George B. McC. And 
William J., and another daughter who died when six years old.  Lou Ella 
is the wife of Abraham J. Myers, farmer of Mifflin Township, this 
county.  The rest are single, and living with their parents, respected 
by the community among whom they live.