BIO: John K. Longnecker, 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.

583  WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

  JOHN K. LONGNECKER, farmer, P. O. Plainfield, was born September 29, 
1839, in West Pennsborough Township, this county.  His father, Benjamin 
Longnecker, a son of Isaac Longnecker, a native of Lancaster County, 
Penn., and an early settler in the lower part of Cumberland County, was 
born near Fairview, this county, and there married Miss Mary Reif, a 
native of Middleton, Dauphin Co., Penn., and settled permanently in 
Plainfield and 1833, where they died - Mr. Longnecker March 11, 1869, 
and his widow in 1885, aged eighty-five years.  They reared nine of 
their eleven children:  Mrs. Nancy Howenstine, of Decatur, Ill.; Mrs. 
Mary Bear, of Wichita, Kas.; Mrs. Catharine Bear; Mrs. Eliza Strohm; 
Mrs. Susan James (deceased); Mrs. Rebecca Carl (deceased); Sarah; 
Benjamin F., of Decatur, Ill.; and John K.  At nineteen our subject 
engaged in teaching, and after following the profession four years, 
completed his education in the State Normal School, at Millersville; 
then continued teaching at Plainfield seven years, making eleven years 
in all in the place.  He enlisted October 16, 1862, in the One Hundred 
and Fiftieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; served under 
Gen. Foster, at Middlebury, N. C., being detailed as clerk in the 
quartermaster's department during the entire term of service.  He 
married Miss Sarah Belle Peffer, of Dickinson Township, this county, 
January 5, 1865, and then settled where he now resides, on the old 
family homestead.  They own here a farm of 70 acres, with handsome 
residence and buildings, all of which they have acquired by their own 
industry.  To them have been born four children:  Benjamin H., Mary R., 
Myrtle B. and Willie P. (deceased).  Mr. Longnecker is a Republican in 
politics.  He has served as school director five years and takes a deep 
interest in the cause of education.