BIO: George B. Waggoner, 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 LIV.

                        NORTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

525  NORTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

  GEORGE B. WAGGONER, farmer and stock-grower, Carlisle, was born in 
Perry County, Penn., July 4, 1845, son of Peter and Mary (Snider) 
Waggoner, natives of Pennsylvania and of German origin.  Peter 
Waggoner, who has made merchant milling the occupation of his life, has 
met with marked success; he moved to Missouri in 1868, where he resides 
at the present time, and is engaged extensively in the milling 
business.  George B., the sixth in a family of seven children, grew to 
manhood in Cumberland County, and learned milling of his father.  When 
troops were called for during the late civil war he enlisted in Company 
E, One Hundred and Thirtieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and at 
the expiration of his time re-enlisted in an independent regiment which 
was raised in Cumberland County, and in which he served until the close 
of the war.  He was in sev-

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eral battles and skirmishes, among which may be named Fredericksburg 
and Chancellorsville.  After the war he went to Missouri, where he 
followed farming for two years, but on account of ill health he 
returned to Pennsylvania, and then catered the employ of C. W. Ahl, for 
whom he worked eleven years in the iron ore mines, being foreman for 
five years. In 1886 he bought his present farm of 120 acres in North 
Middleton Township, where he now resides.  In 1868 he married Mary A., 
daughter of Simon B. Mountz, and of German origin.  The children born 
to this union, now living, are William, Minnie, Maud, Charles, George, 
Mary and Grace.  In politics Mr. Waggoner is a Republican.