BIO: Daniel Heberlig, 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 LIII.

                            NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

  DANIEL HEBERLIG, farmer, P. O. Newville, is a great-grandson of 
Rudolph Heberlig, the founder of the Heberlig family in this country, 
who came from Switzerland before the Revolutionary war, and settled in 
Berks County, Penn., between Reading and Adamstown.  Rudolph Heberlig 
was twice married, having by his first wife two sons, John and Rudolph, 
and two daughters, names unknown.  His second wife had no children.  
John (grandfather of Daniel) was born in Berks County, Penn., and 
married Martha Schoenhouer; they had eight children:  Rudolph, John, 
Jacob, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph, Mary and Elizabeth, all born in Berks 
County, Penn.  In 1811 they removed to this county and settled on a 
farm at Glenn's Mills, near Newville, where both the parents died.  
Rudolph (father of Daniel) married Susan Hard, of Berks County, and had 
ten children:  John, Jacob, Daniel, Rudolph, Samuel, Catharine, Susan, 
Elizabeth, Martha and Mary.  The father of this numerous family died in 
1863, the mother the year previous.  Our subject was born May 30, 1812, 
and lived at home until his marriage, in March, 1836, with Miss Sarah, 
daughter of Peter Utley, of Frankford Township, and who was born in 
1818 and died April 9, 1863.  They had twelve children:  Samuel, born 
January 17, 1838, living in West Pennsborough Township, this county; 
Mary Jane, born September 28, 1810, married to John Heberlig, of 
Newville, Penn.; Margaret, born August 25, 1842, living with her 
father; Rebecca, born May 28, 1844, died April 24, 1867; William, born 
July 9, 1846, died November 28, 1851; David Porter, born June 28, 1848, 
died May 13, 1850; Susanna E., born February 11, 1850, died December 2, 
1850; Sarah Belle, born December 2, 1851, died December 14, 1857; Anna 
Martha, born January 14, 1854, living at home; Daniel, born July 21, 
1856, died February 6, 1857; Nancy Ellen, born August 7, 1858, died May 
26, 1861, and John Edwin, born September 27, 1861, living at home.  Mr. 
Heberlig was married to his second wife, Mrs. Rebecca E. Dobbs, 
December 11, 1879.  They have no children.  After his marriage our 
subject farmed in Frankford Township, this county, for a year, in West 
Pennsborough Township for a year, then in Frankford Township again for 
ten years, and then removed to the Samuel W. Sharp farm, in Newton, 
where he lived for eighteen years.  In 1866 he bought the farm on the 
State road, on a part of which he now lives retired, having built a new 
house on it.  He has never held public office, but 

519 	NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

is satisfied with the reputation of an honest, well-to-do farmer.  He 
and his wife and all the family at home are members of the Lutheran 
Church in Newville.