BIO: George W. Shumberger, 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.

484  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  GEORGE W. SHUMBERGER, teacher and merchant, P. O. Good Hope, is a 
well-known young man in Hampden Township, this county, where he was 
born and raised.  Both his parents are natives of this county and live 
in Hampden Township, where his father carries on the tailoring 
business.  George W. was born in 1855; remained at home working for his 
father on a farm he was cultivating, until twenty years of age, when he 
engaged in the profession of teaching, for which he had qualified 
himself by persistent study, having attended normal school but one 
term.  In 1878 he married Sallie, daughter of John Simmons, of Silver 
Spring Township.  This union has been blessed with four daughters.  Our 
subject continued teaching until 1883, when he purchased the general 
store at Good Hope, this county (formerly conducted by Samuel McGaw), 
and the same year he was appointed postmaster.  The following year he 
resumed teaching, which he still continues, his wife assisting him in 
his other business.  Mr. Shumberger has been twice elected justice of 
the peace, but would not serve; he has been township clerk and auditor, 
and inspector of elections, the duties of which positions he performed 
with fidelity and care.  He is emphatically a self-taught and self-made 
man, universally esteemed for his exemplary conduct and character.  
Both he and his wife are consistent members of the United Brethren 
Church, of which he is an elder.