BIO: William D. 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 LVII.

                         SOUTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP.

548  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  WILLIAM D. McCUNE, retired farmer, P. O. Middle Spring, was born in 
Southampton Township, Cumberland Co., Penn., December 19, 1823, son of 
John and Sarah A. (Duncan) McCune, natives of Pennsylvania, of Scotch-
Irish descent.  John McCune was born on the farm where his son William 
D. now resides, which farm was purchased in an early day by John 
McCune's father, John McCune, our subject's father, was a soldier in 
the war of 1812, and was a farmer of Southampton Township, this county.  
William D. McCune, the eldest in a family of nine children, was reared 
on the farm, received a common school education, and has made farming 
his business.  He is owner of 200 acres of land.  In politics he is a 
Republican.  He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and has been 
elder and trustee and for many years a teacher in the Sabbath-school.