BIO: Robert Mickey, 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.

522  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  ROBERT MICKEY, farmer, P. O. Oakville, is a great-grandson of Robert 
Mickey, who came from Ireland and settled in what is now Newton 
Township, being one of the first settlers in the valley, and he and his 
wife, Agnes, are both buried in the Big Spring cemetery, at Newville.  
One of their sons, also named Robert, was grandfather of our subject.  
He inherited that part of the original tract on which his grandson now 
lives, and to which he added largely.  He was born in 1746, and lived 
all his life on the farm, where, in 1767, he built the stone house in 
which our subject was born.  His wife was Ezemiah Kelly, of York 
County.  He died December 22, 1828, aged eighty-two years, ad his widow 
December 8, 1830, aged seventy-five years.  Their children were Andrew, 
Thomas, John, James, Mary, Agnes and Margaret, all now deceased.  
James, the father of Robert, was born February 15, 1795, became a 
farmer, and never removed from the house in which he was born.  He died 
in the year 1835.  April 15, 1818, he married Lucetta Carothers, of 
Silver Spring Township, who was born August 11, 1801, and died March 
20, 1862.  They had six children, two of whom died young.  One 
daughter, Ezemiah, born April 26, 1820, became the wife of Joseph 
Moody, removed to Ohio, and died there.  The living are Mary Ann, born 
February 19, 1828, wife of William W. Frazer, and living in Missouri; 
Hays, born August 6, 1833, married to Elizabeth, daughter of John 
Kelly, Esq., of York County, and now residing in California:  Robert, 
the eldest son, born January 14, 1823, until three years ago, lived in 
the house built by his grandfather, but, in 1880, built

523  NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

his present house, across the road from his birthplace.  For several 
years before his death his father's farm was rented, but when Robert 
was eighteen years of age he took a part of it into his own hands for 
his mother, and a few years later bought the shares of his two sisters, 
giving him three quarters of the mansion farm.  He also owns the 
adjoining property, known as the Thomas Mickey farm.  In November, 
1846, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of John McCulloch, of this 
township.  To this union thirteen children have been born, three dying 
young.  The living are Sarah Belle, wife of James Hemphill, living in 
Kansas; John E., merchant of Oakville (see sketch below); Lucetta 
Ellen, wife of William Park, of Franklin County; Mary Elizabeth, wife 
of John Witherspoon, of Franklin County; Robert Austin, married to Mary 
Belle McCoy, and living on his father's farm; James Ira, married to 
Sarah Hood, and now with the Carlisle Manufacturing Company, of 
Carlisle; Andrew Elmer, Eugene Sherman and Helen, all living at home.  
Quinn Thornton is a student at Lafayette College.  Mr. Mickey has never 
filled office.  He and his wife belong to Big Spring Presbyterian 
Church, and as one of the leading citizens of the township is held in 
high esteem.