BIO: John Hertzler, 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 LII.

                            MONROE TOWNSHIP.

509 	MONROE TOWNSHIP.

  JOHN HERTZLER, farmer, P. O. Allen.  The grandfather of the subject 
of our sketch, a farmer during his lifetime, was born in Lancaster 
County, Penn., in 1773, and married Miss Mary Brubaker, of same county, 
by whom he had nine children:  Annie, Jacob, Mary, Christian, 
Elizabeth, John, Barbara, Abraham and Rudolph.  He was a respected 
member of the Mennonite Church.  Abraham, the father of our subject, 
was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1812, and passed his early life 
on his father's farm.  In 1837 he married Miss Mary Bender, of 
Lancaster County, Penn.  To this union were born nine children:  
Rudolph, Christian, Michael, Charles, John, Elizabeth, Daniel, Mary and 
Amos.  Abraham Hertzler moved to Cumberland County in 1852, and is now 
a venerable gentleman, the snows of many winters having whitened his 
hair and beard.  He is a devout Christian and a member of the Mennonite 
Church.  John Hertzler, our subject, was also born in Lancaster County, 
Penn., in 1846, and came to this county with his father when a boy.  In 
1876 he married Miss Martha Bowman, of York County, Penn., daughter of 
Christian and Susan Bowman, parents of the following children:  John, 
Jacob, Calvin, Samuel, Martha and Jane.  Mr. Bowman is a member of the 
German Reformed Church, and is still living in York County at the age 
of seventy-five years.  Mr. and Mrs. John Hertzler have two children: 
Earle B. and Elva Margaret.  Mrs. Hertzler is a member of the German 
Reformed Church.  In politics our subject is a Republican.  By his 
unaided efforts he has accumulated enough to buy a good homestead, 
pleasantly situated.  Mr. Hertzler holds to the principles taught him 
by his father - honesty, industry and carefulness.  His children may 
well be proud of these traits in the family character.