BIO: Edwin W. Hurst, 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 XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

416  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  EDWIN W. HURST, leading merchant tailor of Mechanicsburg, was born in 
Philadelphia, Penn., December 31, 1829, son of Jacob Bricker and Susan 
(Hershfeldt) Hurst.  Jacob B. Hurst was born near Dillsburg, York Co., 
Penn., son of John and Catharine (Cocklin) Hurst, who were the parents 
of three sons and four daughters:  Edwin W., the eldest; Jacob, a 
merchant, of Mechanicsburg, Penn.; Lydia, wife of William Spahr, 
superintendent of the city railway stables, Harrisburg, Penn.; Ellen, 
wife of William Nelson, a farmer near Dillsburg, York Co., Penn.; Kate, 
wife of Robert Mateer, hardware merchant, Harrisburg, Penn.; Templeton 
B., who married Miss Jennie Lyman, a daughter of Col. Lyman, attorney 
at Lock Haven, Penn. (he, Templeton B., served all through the war of 
the Rebellion); Mellie, wife of George W. Hackett, a hardware merchant 
at Sunbury, Penn.  Our subject, when an infant, was brought by his 
parents to Dillsburg, Penn., where his father engaged in the tailoring 
and merchant tailoring and was postmaster and who later opened a 
general store.  Edwin W. assisted his father, learning the tailoring of 
him.  He was married in August, 1851, in Newville, Penn., to Miss Sarah 
Miller, born in Fishing Creek Valley, York Co., Penn., daughter of 
Henry and Catharine (Roth) Miller; former a son of John Miller.  In 
1855 our subject went to Philadelphia, Penn., and worked at his trade 
some ten years, then came to Mechanicsburg and did the merchant 
tailoring for his father who had opened a dry goods store here.  In 
1872 he established his present business here.  He and his wife are 
members of the Presbyterian Church.  They have six children:  Annie C., 
wife of John P. Eckels, of Decatur, Ill., a traveling salesman for 
Morehouse, Wells & Co., wholesale hardware dealers, Decatur, Ill.; J. 
Harry, born in Dillsburg, York Co., Penn., February 21, 1854, married 
December 23, 1879, to Miss Sarah A. Eberly, born in Upper Allen 
Township, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hertzler) Eberly, (he, J. Harry, 
is a tailor of Mechanicsburg, has had two children, one now living:  
Hattie Maude Hurst); Ida, who died aged two years; Charles M., hardware 
merchant, junior partner in firm of Morehouse, Wells & Co., and who 
married Miss Rella Shockley, and resides at Decatur, Ill.; Maude, who 
died aged eight years; Robert T., born in Mechanicsburg, Penn., died in 
1876, aged three years.  Our subject is a member of Humana Lodge, 342, 
I. O. O. F., York County, Penn., and a member of the American 
Mechanics, and Knights of the Golden Eagle, and Commandery, and a 
member the G. A. R., Capt, Zinn Post, No. 415.  He is an enterprising 
representative business man, and stands high in the estimation of all 
who know him.