BIO: John L. Sadler, 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 XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

431  BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

  JOHN L. SADLER, lumber manufacturer, Mechanicsburg, is a native of 
Cumberland County, Penn., born on the old family farm near 
Cummingstown, Penn Township, this county, November 16, 1842.  His 
grandfather, Richard Sadler, had moved from Adams County to Centre 
County, Penn., when twenty-one years old; married Miss Rebecca Lewis, 
of Centre County, by whom he had five sons and three daughters.  
Joshua, the second son of this couple, born in Centre County, married 
Miss Harriet Staley, of Adams County, and in 1841 moved to the old farm 
adjoining Cummingstown, and settled in the woods where he cleared a 
farm and died in December, 1862, aged sixty-two years; his widow died 
in January, 1868, aged fifty-two.  They were members of the Methodist 

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Episcopal Church, parents of three sons and one daughter, two sons 
living:  Wilbur F., president judge of Cumberland County, and John L.  
In 1866 Mrs. Sadler moved to Carlisle.  Our subject early went to 
Martinsburg, Va., and engaged in the manufacture of lumber, and has 
followed this industry ever since at Hagerstown, Md., and New 
Cumberland, this county.  He moved to Mechanicsburg in the spring of 
1880.  He was married, November 7, 1873, at Hagerstown, Md., to Miss 
Louisa F. Smith, daughter of John L. and Magdalena (Hershey) Smith.  
Mr. Smith, a retired merchant, was elected associate judge of the 
orphans' court of Washington County, Md., serving for three terms.  To 
Mr. and Mrs. Sadler have been born one son and one daughter:  John and 
Harriet.  Our subject is a F. & A. M. and a member of the I. O. O. F. 
and K. of P.  He started in life with limited means, conducting the 
farm for his mother four years after his father's death, and at twenty-
two struck out for himself.  He has made life a success, and stands 
high in the estimation of all as an upright, honest business man.  He 
is of Scotch-Irish descent on his father's side, and German on his 
mother's side, her family having settled in Lancaster County, Penn., at 
an early day.