BIO: Christian Leib, 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 LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

555  SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

  CHRISTIAN LEIB, retired farmer, P. O. Boiling Springs, was born in 
South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, Penn., February 4, 1816, 
son of John and Mary (Wise) Leib, the former born in this county in 
1781, a farmer by occupation.  Our subject, the eighth born in a family 
of twelve children, received his education in the subscription school; 
chose farming as his occupation, and has met with average success, 
retiring from business and living on his little farm, comprising 38 
acres, for which he paid $200 per acre, and on which he has a neat, 
substantial residence.  Christian Leib was married, in 1836, to Nancy, 
daughter of Jacob Walter.  This union was blessed with eight children, 
three of whom survive:  Mary, Christian W. (a farmer) and Charles H. (a 
merchant).  Mr. Leib's son, John, was a soldier in the Union Army, a 
member of the Two Hundred and Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 
Company A, and was killed at the battle of Petersburg.  Mr. Leib and 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has 
been steward, class-leader and Sabbath-school superintendent.  
Politically Mr. Leib is a Republican.  He is a descendant of one of the 
oldest families of Pennsylvania, and he and his wife have the respect 
and esteem of their many friends.