BIO: Levi Mohler, 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 LIX.

                         UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

570  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  LEVI MOHLER, farmer, P. O. Mechanicsburg, a representative of one of 
the first families that settled in this township, was born August 20, 
1845, on the old homestead, the second son of Samuel and Rachael 
(Miller) Mohler, who were for many years residents of this beautiful 
valley.  Their children, ten in number, were all born on the old 
homestead, and Elizabeth, David, Mary, Priscilla, Levi and Hetty are 
still living in this county.  Mrs. Mohler died February 8, 1870, and 
Samuel Mohler June 1, 1885.  Both were for many years devout members of 
the German Baptist Brethren Church, and their children were reared in 
that faith.  The parents of Samuel Mohler, Christian and Magdalena 
(Springer) Mohler, came from Germany to this county, and early settled 
on the farm now owned by our subject, and which has been in possession 
of the Mohlers over three-quarters of a century.  They reared a family 
of fourteen children, who are now scattered over the States and Western 
Territories.  Levi Mohler was educated in the common schools and 
adopted farm life.  He married, July 4, 1869, Miss Fanny Beelman, of 
York County, Penn., daughter of Rev. Adam Beelman, who for thirty years 
was a minister in that country.  The first year of Mr. and Mrs. 
Mohler's wedded life was spent with her parents, since which time they 
have resided on the Mohler homestead.  They are the parents of five 
children:  Harry B., Martha, Mary, Clara and Annie.  The remote 
ancestors of Mrs. Mohler were from Germany, but her father, Rev. Adam 
Beelman, was born in this county, and her mother, Mattie (Hurst) 
Beelman, was a native of York County, Penn.  This aged and worthy 
couple are living, and Rev. Beelman supplies a pulpit, being the oldest 
minister in the Lower Cumberland District of the Middle District of 
Pennsylvania.  George and Eve (Metzgar) Beelman, grandparents of Mrs. 
Mohler on the father's side, were the parents of six children:  George, 
Adam, John, Fanny, Sarah and Joseph.  On the mother's side her 
grandparents were Abraham and Elizabeth Hurst, who reared a family of 
nine children:  Christian, Fannie, Abram, Henry, Maria, Eliza, Nancy, 
Martha and Hetty.