BIO: T. Frank King, 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 LX.

                       WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

581  WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

  T. FRANK KING, proprietor of Valley View Mills, P. O. Newville, was 
born April 19, 1836, in Georgetown, now a part of Washington, D. C.  
His father, John H. King, a native of the eastern shores of Maryland, 
was a son of a sea captain, and his mother was born in the Carlisle 
Garrison, this county.  John H. King early engaged in mercantile 
business at Georgetown, and there married Miss Ellen Harriet, who was 
born in Monroe Township, this county.  Her parents were also natives of 
this county.  After a long and prosperous business career, Mr. King 
retired to Georgetown Heights, where he resided until his death, about 
1855; his esteemed widow survived him until March, 1885, dying while on 
a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Anna Ingraham, of Palmyra, Wayne Co., 
N. Y.  Our subject received his education in the academies and colleges 
of Washington City; came to Carlisle, this county, at about nineteen 
years of age, and learned his profession at Henderson's Mills.  He 
married Miss Anna C. Bowers, a daughter of Daniel and Margaret Bowers, 
of Carlisle, the ceremony being performed December 17, 1857, by Rev. C. 
P. Wing.  After living at Georgetown three years; at Seneca Mills, Md., 
about two years; near Spring Mills, this county, two years; Bucher's 
Mills, Silver Spring Township, two years; Newville, two years; and two 
years at Roxbury, Franklin County, they purchased the Shellaberger 
Mills on the Conodoguinet Creek, West Pennsborough Township, this 
county, in 1873, and have resided here ever since.  Here they own a 
fine mill with four run of burrs, doing a fine trade with the 
surrounding community, and shipping to more remote points.  Mr. King is 
also deeply interested in the culture of bees, and has an extensive 
apiary of fifty hives, from which he realizes from one to two tons of 
honey annually.  To Mr. and Mrs. King have been born two children:  
Mrs. Margaret Mentzer and Harry M.  Our subject has been successful in 
life, and has acquired a fine property in residences and lots in 
Newville, besides the mill and farm where he resides.  He is past 
master in the F. & A. M., and a member of the Improved Order of Red 
Men.