BIO: Lewis Masonheimer, 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 XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

385  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  LEWIS MASONHEIMER, PROTHONOTARY, Carlisle, was born in Waynesboro, 
Franklin Co., Penn., December 5, 1840.  When he was seven years old his 
parents moved to Carlisle, where he attended school until fourteen, 
when he learned the confectionery business, and later engaged in the 
same, remaining until early in the war of 1861-65, when in August, 
1862, he enlisted as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Thirtieth 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.  After ten months' service he 
was discharged and returned to Carlisle, and for three years was 
engaged in the livery business.  He next carried on a meat market for 
three years, when he began clerking in a dry goods and grocery store, 
which position he held until 1874 or 1875, when he opened a grocery, 
which he carried on for seven years.  In January, 1882, he was 
appointed deputy clerk for the county prothonotary, and in November, 
1884, was elected to his present office by the people of Cumberland 
County, without opposition.  May 5, 1864, Mr. Masonheimer was married 
to Miss Eliza Wetzel, a native of Cumberland County, and daughter of 
John and Catherine (Wise) Wetzel, of the same county.  Five children 
have been born to this union:  Harry L. (died at the age of eight 
months), Kate M., John E., Laura E. and Wilbur.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Masonheimer are members of the Reformed Church; he is a member of the 
True Friends Lodge No. 56, K. of P.  Our subject is a son of John and 
Elizabeth (Dysert) Masonheimer - former a native of Maryland, and a 
shoe-maker by trade; who was married in Adams County, Penn., and became 
the father of six children:  George D., a boot and shoe-maker and 
dealer, in Boyle County, Ky.; Mary, a resident of Carlisle; Kate, wife 
of William B. Crouse, of Waynesboro, Penn.; James M., a resident of 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; John H., accidentally killed in Carlisle, at the age 
of twelve years, and Lewis.  The mother and father were identified with 
the Reformed Church.