BIO: George Getter, 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.

  GEORGE GETTER, farmer and stock-grower, P.O. Carlisle, was born in 
Germany December 27, 1819, son of George and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) 
Getter, also natives of Germany, and who had a family of fifteen 
children, twelve of whom attained maturity.  Our subject's father, by 
occupation a farmer and carpenter, served as a soldier under Napoleon 
Bonaparte, and after his discharge from the army worked at farming in 
Germany until 1828, when he came to America, and being a poor man it 
took the most of what he had accumulated to move his large family to 
Baltimore County, Md.  He was very devoted to his family, and the 
anxiety for their welfare, the sea voyage and exertion of traveling so 
far proved almost too much for him; but he was energetic, and soon 
obtained a position on the Baltimore Railroad.  He was accidentally 
killed nine weeks there-after, and the children were thus thrown on 
their own resources in a strange country.  Our subject, the tenth born, 
was one month in the poor house and while there attended school.  He 
was then bound out till he was twenty-one to a man living at Newville, 
this county.  After serving his term of service he hired out to the 
same man three years longer.  He was married, in 1841, to Miss Mary, 
daughter of Henry Kendig, also of German origin.  Of the twelve 
children born to this union seven are living:  Nancy Ellen, Henry K., 
David, Philip R., Weine, Leo and Jennie.  Mr. and Mrs. Getter are 
members of the Church of God, in which he is elder, trustee and deacon.  
In business Mr. Getter has met with marked success, and by his own 
exertions has acquired the well improved farm where he now resides.  
Politically he is a Republican.