BIO: Samuel Piper, 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 LV.

                              PENN TOWNSHIP.

532  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  SAMUEL PIPER, farmer, P. O. Newville, was born August 12, 1819, in 
West Pennsborough Township, this county.  His grandfather, James Piper, 
came to America, from Ireland, with two brothers, and settled at Middle 
Spring, Franklin Co., Penn., in 1767, and about two years later they 
located at Big Spring, this county.  They followed the usual course of 
pioneers in the wilderness and located along the principal streams.  
James Piper's only son, James, Jr., father of our subject, adopted the 
calling of a miller and carried on Piper's mill, which had been 
established by his father; this mill burned down, 

533  PENN TOWNSHIP.

and, in 1826, James Piper, Jr., built, on the same site, the mill which 
is still standing there.  James Piper, Jr., married Miss Catherine 
Irvine, a native of Stony Ridge, east of Carlisle, this county, and 
they reared six children:  Mrs. Mary Dunlap, Jane (deceased), John, 
Samuel, Mrs. Elizabeth Mallory (deceased) and James; the parents 
resided at Piper's mills until their death; she died July 7, 1844, and 
he January 1, 1846.  Samuel Piper, the subject of this sketch, engaged 
in teaching early in life, and followed that profession for about six 
terms.  October 12, 1848, he married Miss Mary Goodhart, and after 
spending two and a half years at the old family homestead, they resided 
for fourteen years on an adjoining farm; in 1868 they located where 
they now reside; they have here a fine farm of 39 acres of fertile and 
well-improved valley land.  To our subject and wife have been born 
three children:  Samuel, who died in infancy; Mrs. Sevilla Goodhart, 
who died at Bowman's Dale, March 29, 1885, and Lina, residing with her 
parents (she made thorough preparation for the profession of teaching - 
graduated from the State Normal School at Shippensburg, Penn., and is 
now successfully engaged in teaching).  Mr. and Mrs. Piper have also 
reared in their family his brother John's son, John Jr., who has also 
been teaching in Penn Township for thirteen years.  Mr. Piper is a 
life-long Republican.  He and his worthy wife are consistent members of 
the Presbyterian Church.  He is a man of firm principles, one of the 
leading and influential citizens of this county.  By appointment of 
Gen. E. M. Gregory, Mr. Piper took the ninth annual census in Penn and 
Dickinson Townships, this county.