BIO: Daniel Kendig, 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 LIII.

                            NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

519 	NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

  DANIEL KENDIG retired farmer, P. O. Newville, is a native of 
Lancaster County, Penn., where his father and grandfather were both 
born.  His father, Tobias Kendig, was born about 1770, and died in this 
township in 1855.  He was united in marriage with Mary Bowman, of 
Lancaster County, Penn., and had eight children:  Abraham, who died in 
Ohio, nearly thirty years ago; Henry, who died in Newville in 1875; 
Elizabeth, widow of Peter Rowe, of Newton township; Rudolph, who died 
in 1880; Emanuel, who died in 1866; Tobias, who died before the family 
came to the county; Jacob who lives in Franklin County, and Daniel, who 
was born June 6, 1806.  Our subject learned the trade of shoe-making, 
and followed it for ten years, when he became a drover, stock-dealer 
and farmer on the farm he now owns across the road from where he lives.  
About twenty-three years ago he retired, renting his farm.  December 
10, 1835, he married Susanna Ruth, who was born July 29, 1805, and died 
April 18, 1872.  They had three children:  John Francis, born December 
4, 1837, who lives in this township; Daniel Bowman, born June 30, 1840, 
who died February 16, 1861, and William Henry, born September 10, 1841, 
living on the next farm to his father.  May 1, 1873, Mr. Kendig married 
Elizabeth (Scheffler) Jacoby, widow of Peter Jacoby, by whom she had 
two sons and one daughter:  William, Maria and David.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Kendig have no children by their second marriage.  Mr. Kendig has been 
supervisor, road-master, etc., in this township.  He and his wife are 
regular attendants of the Church of God, Green Springs.  He is known as 
a shrewd, careful and honorable man.