BIO: John Hursh, 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 XLI.

                         BOROUGH OF NEWVILLE. 

  JOHN HURSH, grain dealer and forwarder, Newville, is a grandson of 
Henry Hursh, who was a farmer in Lancaster County, Penn., afterward 
living in York County some time before the Revolutionary war; he died 
in 1837.  His wife was Susanna Rudesil.  They had three sons:  John, 
Joseph and Henry.  Joseph, married to Mary Fisher, retained the 
homestead, in which he died in 1849.  Henry took a farm a few miles 
off, on which he died in 1840.  John was born in York County, Penn., in 
1799, and lived on the farm until his marriage with Barbara Bruckhart; 
he died in 1880, his wife two years before.  They had nine children:  
Henry, Susan, Daniel, Mary, John, Joseph B., Elizabeth, Abraham, and 
David.  Susan, Daniel and Mary are deceased.  Henry is married to 
Cassandra Dietz, and lives in Hopewell Township; Elizabeth is the widow 
of Christian Rupp, and lives in Mechanicsburg; Abraham is married to 
Fanny Frantz, and lives in Steelton; David is married to Catharine 
Hale, and lives in Newville.  John was born January 19, 1824, on the 
farm in York County, where he lived until twenty-four years old, at 
which time he went to Manchester, York Co., Penn., and engaged in dry 
goods business with his brother, Joseph B., and when the latter went to 
Virginia he took the business alone.  In 1854 he removed to 
Mechanicsburg, Penn., and January 1, 1856, to Newville, where he has 
since resided, engaged in forwarding and dealing in grain, flour, salt, 
fish, coal, lumber, etc., etc.  Until 1870 he was in company with 
Joseph B., but since then has been alone.  At that time they had an 
interest in the flouring-mill of D. Shipp & Co., of Tamaqua, which in 
the division his brother assumed, John retaining the business here, 
including the milling business on Big Spring.  He and Joseph own 
together one-half interest in the Mount Vernon Mill on the 
Conodoguinet.  In 1850 Mr. Hursh was married to Miss Sarah A., daughter 
of George Livingston, of York County, Penn., and born in 1823.  They 
had five children, one of whom, John, born May 10, 1857, died young.  
Those living are Daniel G., born June 24, 1851, who was married 
December 17, 1874, to Annie C. Bert, of Newville, and is his father's 
book-keeper; Susan, born October 17, 1852, is the wife of W. B. Oyler, 

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of Newville:  Sarah, born August 3, 1855, is the wife of Erwin C. 
Glover, of Detroit, Mich., and James, born July 23, 1860, is married to 
Annie C. Kratzer, of Newville.  Mr. Hursh has held many township 
offices, and is now and has been, for several years, treasurer of 
Newville Cemetery.  He and his wife and son Daniel, and daughter, 
Susan, are members of the United Brethren Church, and in all the 
relations of life he has ever shown himself to be a man of probity.