BIO: Wilson P. Walters, 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 XLV.

        EAST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF CAMP HILL.

475  EAST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

  WILSON P. WALTERS, farmer, Camp Hill, is the grandson of John 
Walters, a native of the county, whose father settled here after his 
immigration from Germany.  His farm was in what is now Hampden 
Township, near the mountain.  His son John inherited the farm, on which 
he died.  He had four sons:  John, Daniel, Joseph Henry and Jacob.  
Daniel Walters, the father of our subject, was married to Margaret 
Weibby, of Carlisle.  He took the home farm, but some years after sold 
it, and bought another near Mechanicsburg, where he died about 1872, in 
his seventy-seventh year; his widow died in 1876, aged seventy-five.  
Their children were Levi, Jacob, Margaret, Wilson P., John H., David, 
Mary and Sarah and Ephraim, who both died young.  Levi died in Hampden 
Township in 1885; Jacob died in 1858; Margaret is the wife of Jacob A. 
Basehore, of Hampden Township; John H. is married to Miss Jennie 
Ziegler, and is now burgess of Mechanicsburg.  Wilson P., was born 
September 8, 1836.  He worked at carpentering for seven years, when he 
hired the Simon Oyster farm, which he worked for nineteen years, at 
which time he bought from his father-in-law, Jacob Sadler, the one on 
which he now resides.  November 17, 1859, he married Miss Mary Sadler, 
who was born on the farm they now own.  They have two children, Julia 
A., born January 18, 1861, now the wife of A. O. Sample, merchant of 
Mechanicsburg; and William Franklin, born December 2, 1863, who is 
single and living with his parents.  Mr. Walters has never held office, 
but gives his entire time and attention to his farm.  He is a member of 
Eureka Lodge, No. 302, A. Y. M., of Mechanicsburg, and bears a high 
character for honesty and uprightness.