BIO: Thomas Sharp, 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 LIII.

                            NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

523  NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

  THOMAS SHARP, farmer, P. O. Newville.  The grandfather of this 
gentleman, Robert Sharp, came from Ireland before the Revolution, when 
quite a young man; afterward returning and bringing with him the rest 
of the family, and locating between the forks of the Delaware.  He 
married a Miss Margaret Boyd, and a sister of his married a Hemphill.  
He and his brother Alexander were wagoners in the Continental Army.  
After the war Robert came to Cumberland County.  He had five children:  
James, John, David, Thomas, and Margaret, who was married to John Smith 
and lived in Franklin County, Penn.  John Sharp, the father of our 
subject, was born on a farm adjoining where Thomas lives, in the latter 
part of 1773, and died July 12, 1863.  His wife was Martha Huston.  
They were married in 1814, and had seven children:  Andrew, born August 
25, 1816, and died in infancy; Margaret, born April 18, 1818, never 
married, and died January 27, 1870; Andrew (second) born March 19, 
1820, married Eliza Jacobs, and died November 13, 1865; Martha, born 
May 12, 1822, died September 27, 1861; Robert Boyd, born November 10, 
1824, married Mrs. Carothers, and died March 30, 1874; Franklin, born 
January 3, 1831, married Paulina Jamieson, and is now a resident of 
Columbia City, Ind.; Thomas, born May 29, 1827, on the mansion farm, of 
which his present farm was then a part.  He lived there until 1864, 
when he took his present place from his father's estate, and has since 
resided on it.  In December, 1863, he was married to Margaret Jane 
Jacobs, of Mifflin Township, this county, and who died April 2, 1873, 
aged forty-seven years and twenty-five days.  October 26, 1876, he 
married his second wife, Jennie E. Maclay, of Franklin County, Penn., 
who died April 1, 1882, leaving no issue.  Mr. Sharp never held office, 
is a member and 

524  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

trustee of the United Presbyterian Church in Newville, and is regarded 
as a man of good sound judgment, ripe experience and unblemished 
character.