BIO: George B. Longenecker, 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 XLV.

        EAST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF CAMP HILL.

  GEORGE B. LONGENECKER, postmaster, West Fairview, was born in this 
town-

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ship, near West Fairview, and is a great-great-grandson of Abraham 
Longenecker, who came here from Lancaster County in 1772.  He located 
near the mountain, on the farm now owned by John Roth.  He paid $8.50 
an acre for his land, while that in Mechanicsburg and Shiremanstown 
could be bought for $1.25.  When he moved in, the huts, formerly owned 
by the Indians, were still standing on the banks of the small stream on 
which he located.  His son, Isaac, was the great-grandfather of our 
subject.  He was born in 1788, and on the death of his father, in 1819, 
he with a younger brother inherited the farm.  Isaac purchased his 
brother's interest, and worked the farm until shortly before his death 
in 1840.  Jacob, grandfather of George B., was born and lived here 
until he was twenty-three years of age, when he married Miss Christiana 
Kuntz.  They had five children, viz.:  George W., Benjamin F., Jacob, 
Catherine and Maria.  The last three died when quite young.  Benjamin 
F., by trade a carpenter, is a resident of Marysville, Perry County.  
George W., a farmer by occupation, is the father of George B.; he was 
born November 19, 1834, and always lived in the vicinity of West 
Fairview until the spring of 1885, when he removed to Marysville, from 
which place he went to Illinois in the spring of 1886.  February 11, 
1862, he married Miss Elizabeth Brenner.  To this union five children 
were born, viz.:  Laura E., Lilly D., Alice M. and Dora C., who are 
with their parents in Illinois.  George B. is the eldest in the family.  
He was born May 4, 1863, in this township, and when only three years of 
age was taken by his grandparents with whom he continued to live until 
the death of his grandmother in May, 1885.  He attended common schools, 
and when sixteen years old began working in the nail factory in his 
native town, where he remained until November, 1885, when he was 
commissioned postmaster of West Fairview.  Mr. Longenecker is an 
ambitious young man and a fine penman.  He is one who has the 
confidence and esteem of all who know him, and is looked upon as one of 
the rising young men of the place.  Of irreproachable character and 
habits, he deserves the success he is achieving.