BIO: Christian Philip Humrich, 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.

381  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  CHRISTIAN PHILIP HUMRICH, attorney, Carlisle, was born in that place 
March 9, 1831, of parents John Adams and Mary Ann (Zeigler) Humrich.  
The former was born in Lancaster City, and the latter in Montgomery 
County, this State.  John A. was a son Christian Humrich, a native of 
the Palatinate, in Germany, who came to America about 1800, and was 
naturalized in Lancaster County, Penn., on June 14, 1802.  He was a 
saddler by occupation.  He married in Lancaster City, and moved to 
Cumberland County in 1807, where he opened a hotel (now the 
Pennsylvania Inn; then the "Black Bear"), which he kept over thirty 
years.  His death occurred in Carlisle in 1842, at the age of ninety-
four years.  His children were Philip, Maria, John, Catharine and John 
Adams.  The last, too, was a saddler and harness-maker by trade and, 
later in life, farmed.  He died in February, 1880, aged eighty years.  
John Adams and wife had four sons:  Christian Philip, John A., Samuel 
K. and William A.  John died in 1862.  All the rest are living in 
Carlisle.  The parents were members of the Lutheran Church.  Christian 
P. attended the first common school in Carlisle (opening August 13, 
1836), and at the age of sixteen years attended Dickinson College, 
graduating in 1852.  He then began the study of law with Judge Robert 
M. Henderson, and was admitted to the bar November 14, 1854, since 
which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of law.  He has 
been twice nominated district attorney by the Republican party, also 
received the nomination for Representative, but that party being in the 
minority, was defeated at the election.  He has served as school 
director since 1857, and has been secretary of the school board since 
1860.  May 12, 1859, Mr. Humrich was married to Miss Amanda R. Zeigler, 
a native of Cumberland County, and a daughter of Jesse and Mary (A. 
Peffer) Zeigler, old settlers of that county.  To our subject and wife 
have been born nine children, six of whom are living, namely:  Charles 
F., insurance agent, Carlisle:  Ellen K., Carrie A., Blanch Z., Mary A. 
and Christian P., Jr.  The parents are members of the Lutheran Church.  
In politics Mr. Humrich was first an old-line Whig, and on the 
organization of the Republican party, espoused its principles, and has 
ever since been one of its strong supporters.