BIO: Samuel Schell, 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 LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

560  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  SAMUEL SCHELL, carpenter, P. O. Boiling Springs, was born in York 
County, Penn., July 9, 1830, son of Andrew and Anna Mary (Koontz) 
Schell, natives of Lancaster County, Penn., and of German origin (his 
father was a carpenter and contractor by occupation).  Andrew Schell 
and wife had a family of ten children, and of their six sons five were 
carpenters and the other a farmer.  Our subject, who received his 
education in the common school, early learned the carpenter's trade 
with his brother, he being the youngest son, and has made that the 
principal business of his life.  He was married, in 1855, to Mary 
Magdalena, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Givler) High, who were also of 
German origin.  Her father was a doctor.  Mr. and Mrs. Schell have two 
children:  Adella, wife of Lewis Zeigler, of Pittsburgh, Penn., and 
Jacob Franklin, who was born in York County, Penn., August 30, 1858.  
At the age of sixteen he entered the Naval Academy as cadet in the 
engineer corps at Annapolis, Md., and thence graduated in 1878, and was 
then sent to sea and sailed in the ship which conveyed Gen. Grant in 
his trip around the world.  At present Jacob F. Schell is instructor in 
the engineer department of the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.  Mr. 
Schell and wife are members of the United Brethren Church.  Politically 
he is a Democrat.