BIO: Abraham Sollenberger, 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 LVI.

                        SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP.

543  SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP.

  ABRAHAM SOLLENBERGER, farmer, P. O. Mechanicsburg.  The founder of 
the American branch of this family came from Germany and settled in 
Lancaster County, Penn., at an early day.  John Sollenberger 
(grandfather of our subject) moved to Cumberland County, with his wife 
and two sons, in 1795, and bought a farm in Monroe Township.  His wife 
was a Miss Barbara Yockey, of Lancaster County.  She bore him ten 
children:  John, Michael, David, Joseph, Samuel, Elizabeth, Barbara, 
Sarah, Catharine and Abraham.  They all married and were the parents of 
children.  Mr. and Mrs. John Sollenberger were members of the German 
Baptist Church.  He was well known for his honesty, and lived to the 
patriarchal age of eighty-four years.  John Sollenberger, his son, was 
born 

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in Lancaster County, Penn., and came with his father to Cumberland 
County when but an infant.  In 1818, he married Miss Hettie Scott, of 
Franklin County, daughter of William and Hannah (Howard) Scott.  To 
them were born six children:  Annie, Catharine, Abraham, John, Samuel 
and Joseph.  In 1856 Mr. Sollenberger bought the old homestead where he 
lived until his death.  He died, aged eighty-four years and ten months.  
He was a man of excellent moral character.  Abraham Sollenberger, our 
subject, was born on the old homestead, which has now seen three 
generations at one time under its roof.  In 1850 he married Miss Anna 
Seidle, a native of Lancaster County, Penn.  To them was born one son, 
who died when but five years of age, a great misfortune, as they have 
since been childless.  They adopted a friendless little child, however, 
whom they have tenderly cared for and educated, and who is now ten 
years old and is of a cheerful disposition and of more than ordinary 
intelligence.  They have named her Annie May Sollenberger.  In 1855, 
Mr. Sollenberger purchased his present homestead, which is a fine farm 
near Mechanicsburg.  He and his wife are members of the church of his 
ancestors (German Baptist) and are well known for their kindness and 
good moral principles.