BIO: Henry Killian, 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.

  HENRY KILLIAN, farmer, P. O. Newville, is a son of John Killian, a 
native of Lancaster County, Penn., whose father settled there on his 
emigration from Europe.  In 1823 John Killian came to Mifflin Township, 
this county, where he stayed seven years; then in West Pennsborough 
Township for a year; in Mifflin Township again for three years; thence 
moved to Newton Township, where he lived eleven years on the Sharp 
farm.  In 1845 he bought a farm on the creek, to which he removed the 
following spring, and where he died.  He married Elizabeth Long, of 
Lancaster County.  They had nine children:  Christina, who was twice 
married and is now the widow of John Mellinger; Lydia, widow of Samuel 
Geese; Charles, deceased; Abraham, married to Susan Sigler, and living 
in Newville, Penn; Eliza (deceased) was the wife of Elias Diehl; John, 
married to Catharine Iry, died in Illinois; Margaret, who died in her 
brother Henry's house December 29, 1884; Susan, also married to Elias 
Diehl (after her sister Eliza's death), and after his demise married to 
William Shaeffer, and died in September, 1884, and Henry.  Our subject 
was born November 2, 1813, in Lancaster County, Penn.  December 20, 
1836, he married Ann Eliza Jones, a native of Silver Spring Tp., this 
county.  For a year after, he lived in Franklin County, Penn., and then 
for a year on a farm adjoining where he now lives.  Thence he went to 
the farm of Robert McFarland, staying fourteen years, when he and 
William McFarland bought a farm on the Big Spring, on which the latter 
erected a paper-mill.  A few years later Mr. Killian bought his 
partner's interest in the farm, to which he removed, selling it three 
years later and buying the McKinney farm, on which his son John now 
lives.  Here he farmed nineteen years, when he retired and moved to his 
present residence, which he had previously built.  He is the father of 
eight children:  John, born November 11, 1837, married to Wilhelmina 
Heberlig; Catharine, born April 3, 1840, widow of Henry Livingstone; 
Samuel, born March 20, 1842, married to Mary Jane Drake, of 
Stroudsburg, who died in Kansas (he returned to Newville, and is now 
husband of Alice Staples, also of Stroudsburg, Penn.); Jacob, born 
October 15, 1844, married Susan M. Brehm, and lives on a farm of his 
father; Eliza, born May 28, 1847, died December 23, 1855; 

520 	BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

Lucetta, born December 2, 1849, wife of G. Allen Brehm; Henry, born 
April 4, 1852, married to Jane E. Westafer, living on another of his 
father's farms; and Lydia Belle, born October 30, 1854, wife of David 
A. Cromleigh, now of Mechanicsburg.  Mr. Killian has been school 
director, appraiser, and has held many other township offices.  
Beginning life without any advantages, he and his wife have, by 
industry and thrift, accumulated a competence, now owning four farms.  
They have reaped the fruits of a well spent life, and in the evening of 
their days are enjoying its comforts.  Both are devout members of the 
Lutheran Church.