BIO: Eli C. Shuman, 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 XLVII.

                             HAMPDEN TOWNSHIP.

  ELI C. SHUMAN, farmer, P. O. Good Hope, is a native of Manor 
Township, Lancaster Co., Penn., born January 1, 1830; his father, Jacob 
B. Shuman, and his grandfather, Christian Shuman, were also natives of 
Lancaster County, as were also his mother and grandmother. His mother's 
maiden name was Fanny Urban, and his grandmother's name was Anna 
Brenneman.  In 1854 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Bernard Mann, of 
the same place, and continued to live on his father's farm until 1860, 
when his father bought 

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the farm in Hampden Township, where they still live.  He has a family 
of seven daughters and two sons.  His daughter Laura is married to 
Jacob Bretz, son of Jacob Bretz, Sr., a farmer, of the same township; 
Elizabeth is the wife of George Dietz, son of Chrn. Dietz, of the same 
township; Catharine is the wife of David V. Kapp, son of Wm. Kapp, of 
Silver Spring Township, this county; the other children are unmarried, 
their names are Maggie, Harriet, Ida, Fannie B., B. Frank and Albert N.  
Mr. Shuman devotes his whole time to farming.  He and his wife and two 
of the daughters are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at 
Salem.