BIO: H. O. Shelley, 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 LIX.

                         UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

571  UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

  H. O. SHELLEY, miner, P. O. Shepherdstown, was born in Lancaster, 
Penn., but later went to Dauphin County, where he owned a farm.  In 
1869 he commenced mining iron ore in York County, Penn., where he 
continued until 1878, opening a mine on Dan Landis' farm in 1874, and 
which he sold in 1875, but in 1883 again leased and has operated since.  
An analysis of the ore from this mine, in 1874, gave sixty-two per cent 
in the furnaces.  The analysis made in 1884 showed fifty two per cent 
of the mixed oxides.  In 1855 H. O. Shelley was married to Fanny 
Nisley, daughter of Henry and Mary Nisley, and who was born on the 
island bearing that name in the Susquehanna below Middletown.  In 1867, 
our subject came to Upper Allen Township, this county, and purchased a 
farm, on which he moved in 1868, and which he has since operated in 
connection with mining.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Shelley are 
five in number:  Samuel married Ella Coover, a daughter of one of York 
County's first families:  Elias, wedded Annie, daughter of Christian 
Hertzler, of this county; David, Lizzie, wife of William Nisley, of 
Mechanicsburg, and Annie.  Mr. Shelley has repeatedly been solicited to 
become a candidate for official positions, but has always declined, 
preferring to manage his own business affairs and thus keep aloof from 
such annoyances as small offices provoke.  He is one of the most highly 
respected men in his neighborhood, and lives in a style becoming a man 
of education and refinement.