BIO: Charles Trone, Cumberland County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Bookwalter Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/beers/beers.htm ______________________________________________________________________ PART II. HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. CHAPTER LIII. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. 524 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: CHARLES TRONE, superintendent of the Big Pond Furnace estate, Lee's Cross Roads, is a grandson of John Trone, a native of York County, whose father was from Germany, and who was married to Polly Clay, of that county. They had the following named children: Jacob, George, Conrad, William, Charles, Henry, Catherine, Elizabeth, Polly, Rebecca and Lydia. Our subject's father, George, was born March 6, 1795, and followed the occupation of a carpenter and cabinet-maker. In 1818 he married Susanna Carl, of Hanover. They had ten children: Charles, who was the eldest, was born January 29, 1819; Abdel, born January 14, 1823, was a member of Company H, Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was wounded at Warrenton, Va., and died from the effects at Brandy Station, Va., January 18, 1864; Reunem F., born June 14, 1831, married and living in Columbus, Ohio; George, born February 6, 1840, married Margaret Lee, of Shippensburg, now living in Cincinnati; Anna Maria, born September 11, 1820, wife of David Reese, of Newton Township; Amanda C., born October 29, 1824, widow of Peter D. Hendricks, and living in Michigan; Lucinda, born September 9, 1827, was wife of John Stough, of Newville, and died in December, 1878; Emma, born April 26, 1835, is the wife of John D Laverty, of Philadelphia; Catherine L., born March 26, 1833, wife of John W. Donovan, living in Ohio; Elizabeth, born in 1838, became the wife of John D. Cole, of Shippensburg, and died in Middletown, Md. When Charles was twelve years old his parents came to what is now known as Cleversburg, Southampton Township, to a farm which his father sold in 1845, engaging in business and afterward at his trade in Shippensburg, retiring some years after, and died in Charles' house, July 18, 1876, aged eighty- one. His wife died March 29, 1874. Charles remained on the farm until his marriage, when he taught school for two years; then was clerk at Mary Ann Furnace, later going to Shippensburg until 1855, when he came to the Big Pond Furnace, bringing his family in 1864. At the time he came it was owned by Schoch & Sons, who sold it, in 1869, to P. A. Ahl & Bro., who disposed of it, in 1872, to the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, who are still its pro- 525 NEWTON TOWNSHIP. prietors. It was idle for several years, and in 1879 was leased by C. W. Ahl & Son, who put it in running order, and would have had it in operation in a few days, when, unfortunately it took fire, and the greater part was consumed. The property then reverted to the Coal and Iron Company, and has never been rebuilt. In all these changes Mr. Trone has been, and is now in charge of the property. November 2, 1843, he was married to Anna Sierer, of Southampton Township, who died June 26, 1874. They had four children: Annetta; George, who died in infancy; Mary Ellen, deceased; and Leila, wife of George D. Clever, of Cleversburg. Mr. Trone is a member of Rehoboth Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is steward, and bears a high character for intelligence and integrity.