BIO: Christian Reighter, 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 XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

392  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  CHRISTIAN REIGHTER, brick mason, contractor and builder, Carlisle, 
was born in that place January 10, 1820, son of George and Ann 
Catherine (Leibe) Reighter.  George Reighter, a stone and brick mason, 
contractor and builder, and a native of Crawford County, Penn., removed 
to Berks County, and thence to Carlisle in 1813, where, in 1816, he was 
married to Miss Leibe, a native of Berks County, and a daughter of 
Christian and Catherine (Franklinberger) Leibe.  He died April 7, 1836, 
aged about thirty-five years.  His parents were Henry and Sarah J. 
(Sanders) Reighter, the former of whom, a native of Crawford County, 
came in 1813 to Cumberland County, and in 1835 moved to Pittsburgh.  He 
was also by trade a brick and stone-mason.  To George and Ann Catherine 
(Leibe) Righter were born six sons and one daughter:  George L., who 
served in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, under Col. 
Coulter, and was killed at Fredericksburg; Christian; Henry B., who 
served in the Mexican war, and died from disease contracted therein; 
Charles O., who served in Company A, First Regiment Pennsylvania 
Veteran Reserve Volunteers, and was wounded at South Mountain, and died 
from the effects; John T., a painter in Philadelphia (Charles O. and 
John T. were twins); Mary C., who died in 1851, the wife of Henry 
McCord, a farmer of Ohio, and Andrew J., a brick-mason, who also served 
in the First Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Reserve Volunteers, and died 
in 1879.  The parents were identified - the father with the Episcopal, 
and the mother with the Lutheran Church.  Our subject, when young, 
learned the brick-mason's trade in Carlisle, which he has since 
followed.  February 1, 1850, he was married to Miss Sarah Jane 
Dickinson, a native of Cumberland County, Penn., and a daughter of 
David and Christian (Yingest) Dickinson, and to this union have been 
born two children:  Edward F., now engaged in the grocery business in 
Gettysburg, and Mary C., who resides with her parents.