BIO: Jacob Hemminger, 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 XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

378  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

  JACOB HEMMINGER, county treasurer, Carlisle, was born on the 
homestead farm in South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, July 1, 
1838.  His grandfather, John Hemminger, emigrated from Germany to 
Lancaster County, Penn., when a young man, and married Miss Barbara 
Rhemm, of that county, and to them were born three sons and one 
daughter:  John, Jacob, Samuel and Nancy; the latter married to George 
Stubbs, of Cumberland County, in 1800.  John, the eldest son of John 
and Barbara (Rhemm) Hemminger, married Miss Eliza Heagy, and settled on 
the old farm two miles and a half west of Carlisle, where were born 
their twelve children, viz.:  Jane A., wife of Lafayette Pieffer, of 
Dickinson Township; John a farmer near Waynesboro, Franklin County; 
Sarah (unmarried), of Carlisle; Samuel (deceased); Catherine, wife of 
J. E. B. Graham (they reside near Lincoln, Neb.); William, who died in 
1873 (his widow resides in Newville); Joseph, who died in 1883 (his 
widow resides in Dickinson township); Mary, the wife of William 
McCullough, a resident of near Shippensburg, Cumberland County; Hettie, 
wife of Joseph Beetem, of Carlisle; Jacob, of Carlisle; George, M. D., 
of Carlisle; and Susannah (unmarried), of Carlisle.  Jacob Hemminger, 
when a youth, worked on his father's farm, and received such schooling 
as is generally given to farmers' sons.  January 22, 1863, he was 
married to Miss Ellen Drawbaugh, a native of Cumberland County, and a 
daughter of George and Barbara (Bloser) Drawbaugh, old settlers of the 
same county.

379   BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

Our subject was engaged in farming until 1868, when he opened a general 
store at Mount Holly Springs, and, in 1870, was elected auditor of 
Cumberland County.  In 1872 he returned to his farm, and there 
remained, when he again removed to Carlisle, and engaged in merchant 
tailoring and general mercantile business, in connection with real 
estate and auctioneering:  the mercantile business he closed out in 
1881, and to the other department added fire insurance.  In 1884 he was 
elected treasurer of Cumberland County.  To Mr. and Mrs. Hemminger have 
been born four children:  Sarah E., Wilmer A., Charles P. and John R.  
The parents are members of the Lutheran Church.  Mr. Hemminger is a 
member of the K. of P.