BIO: Samuel Albert McCune, 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 LIII.

                            NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

521  NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

  SAMUEL ALBERT McCUNE, retired farmer, Oakville, is a great-grandson 
of James McCune, who came here about the middle of the last century, 
with his brother Robert, from Ireland, and jointly took up a tract of 
437 acres of land, where his descendants now live, and which is now in 
their possession.  The subject of this sketch has a receipt dated April 
7, 1824, from the State Treasurer, for $10 patent fees for 135 acres of 
the original tract, and it states that it is surveyed on two warrants 
to Robert and James McCune, one dated May 13, 1763, and the other 
October 20, 1766.  James' son Samuel was Samuel Albert's grandfather.  
He was born where his grandson now lives, in 1770, and died November 
16, 1813.  His wife was Hannah Brady, born January 1, 1776, and died 
May 16, 1847.  They had eleven children, of whom two died in infancy.  
The others were Jane, born October, 1795, who became the wife of John 
Sharp; James, born January 22, 1799; Addie, born December 9, 1798; 
Margaret, born April 9, 1801, was the wife of Moses Kirkpatrick; 
Rachel, born July 27, 1803; Hugh Brady, born October 11, 1805; William, 
born January 23, 1807; Rebecca, born October 8, 1811; and Samuel, born 
April 9, 1814.  Of this numerous family but one remains - Rebecca, 
single, and living in her nephew's house.  Hugh Brady, father of Samuel 
Albert, lived all his life on the farm.  Starting poor he acquired a 
farm and other property in the West.  He died in September, 1881.  His 
wife was Isabella Jane Kirkpatrick, who is now living with her 
daughter, Hannah M.  Their ten children were Jane Elizabeth, Eleanor 
Culbertson, Rebecca Shields, Hannah Malvina, Margaret, Samuel Albert, 
William Alexander, John Kirkpatrick, Cyrus Brady and James Henderson.  
Hannah M. is the only daughter living.  She is the wife of Robert 
Fulton, of Big Spring, West Pennsborough Township.  The sons are all 
living, except William A., who died May 27, 1883.  Samuel A. was born 
May 18, 1842.  After leaving school he attended Duff's Commercial 
College, in Pittsburgh.  During school intervals he worked on the farm, 
and the habits of industry acquired were strengthened by the strict 
religious

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training of God-fearing parents.  August 2, 1862 he enlisted in Company 
E, One Hundred and Thirtieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and on the 
following 18th of September, in the great battle of Antietam, received 
two wounds - one from a musket ball, in his right arm, and another by 
being struck in the right side by a piece of rebel shell.  He was sent 
to the hospital, and, when nearly convalescent, was attacked with 
typhoid fever, and his health being thus seriously impaired he received 
an honorable discharge.  His uncle Samuel, on his death, in February, 
1881, left him the farm, on which he has had a tenant three years past.  
Mr. McCune has been a member of the executive committee of the 
Cumberland County Temperance Alliance since its organization, and was 
one of the standing committee of the Prohibition party in the last 
State election.  He has been for several years a ruling elder in the 
Big Spring Presbyterian Church, and has, ever since its organization, 
been a teacher in the Sabbath-school at Oakville.  He is known as an 
upright Christian man of blameless life and character.