BIO: Samuel Voglesong, 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.

544  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  SAMUEL VOGLESONG, farmer, P. O. New Kingstown.  The grandfather of 
this gentleman immigrated to this country and settled in York County.  
John Voglesong, his son (father of subject), was born in York county 
about 1783.  He was a farmer and landholder, and married Miss Mary 
Lichty, of York County.  To them were born ten children:  Henry, John, 
David, Samuel, Elizabeth, Susan, Benjamin, Sarah, Thomas F. and Mary F. 
(twins.)  About 1809, John Voglesong moved to this county and settled 
in Silver Spring Township.  He died in 1849 at the age of sixty-four 
years.  Samuel Voglesong was born in 1819, on his father's farm in 
Silver Spring Township.  He remained at home after the death of his 
father until he was thirty-two years of age.  In 1851 he married Miss 
Elizabeth Hartman, daughter of Christian and Annie (Gontz) Hartman.  
Both Mr. and Mrs. Voglesong are devout members of the Lutheran Church.  
In politics he is a Democrat.  By industry and thrift he has 
accumulated a handsome property, consisting of 279 acres of land in 
this township, and is greatly respected by all who know him.