BIO: Wilson J. Wagner, 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.

526  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  WILSON J. WAGNER, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Carlisle, was born 
in North Middleton Township, this county, October 20, 1850, son of 
George and Sarah (Strohm) Wagner, whose ancestors came from 
Switzerland.  His father, who was a farmer all his life, died in this 
county in 1877 at the age of sixty-six years; he was a thorough 
business man, and met with marked success at farming, being at the time 
of his death worth about $75,000, most of which he had made by his own 
exertions.  He was a Democrat in politics, but no office seeker and 
could not be induced to hold any official position.  His name was 
originally spelled Waggoner, but he instructed his sons to spell their 
name Wagner.  Our subject, the second in the family of seven children 
(five of whom are still living), was reared on the farm and received 
his schooling in North Middleton Township.  He has made agriculture his 
business, and is the owner of a farm of 127 acres with first class 
improvements.  Our subject has been twice married, first, in 1877, to 
Emma, daughter of William Jacoby, who died in 1880, leaving two 
children:  George and Sidney.  Mr. Wagner was married on the second 
occasion, in 1883, to Anna, daughter of John Armstrong.  Politically he 
is a Democrat.