BIO: S. P. BACASTOW, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 365-366
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    S. P. BACASTOW, one of the most prosperous young business men of Monroe
  township, Cumberland county, is of German ancestry. It is not known whether
  two or three brothers of the same name (then spelled Backenstow) came to
  America from the Fatherland, but it is known that they settled in Berks and
  Dauphin counties, one of them, the great-grandfather of S. P. Bacastow,
  making his home in Dauphin county, Pa., where he engaged in tanning.
    
    George Bacastow, grandfather of S. P., was born in Dauphin county, and
  there received a common school education. He learned his father's trade,
  tanning, which he followed all his life, and he died in Hummelstown, Dauphin
  county, in 1839. He had two sons, George and John, the latter the father of
  our subject. George Bacastow, the eldest son, was born in Dauphin county,
  learned the tanner's trade with his father, and followed same until his
  death, at the age of thirty years.
    
    John Bacastow was born in 1814 at Hummelstown, Dauphin county, and received
  his education in the common schools of the home neighborhood. During his early
  manhood he was not at all robust, so he engaged in farming in his native
  county. After his marriage he located at Highspire, in that county, where he
  remained a few years, and then moved to Hummelstown, where he passed the
  remainder of his days, dying in 1879, at the age of sixty-four years. He
  married Mary Brenner, daughter of Peter and Mary (Zimmerman) Brenner, of
  Dauphin county, and she still survives, now making her home with her son, S.
  P., in Monroe township. To Mr. and Mrs. Bacastow were born children as
  follows: Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Kline, a farmer of Lebanon county;
  Rebecca, wife of Elijah Leese, a resident of Dauphin county, where he is
  engaged in farming; Franklin P., a farmer in Dauphin county, who married Mary
  A. Urich; George T., who married Angie Crampton, and is engaged in farming in
  Kansas, about five miles from Arkansas City; Morris H., who is a farmer in
  Kansas, and who married Elizabeth Hemperly; and Emma F., who is living with
  her mother and brother in Monroe township.
    
    S. P. Bacastow was born Jan. 24, 1872, in Dauphin county, and received his
  early education there in the common schools. Later he attended the Lebanon
  Valley College for five years, graduating from that institution in 1893, at
  the head of his class. Following this event he traveled for six months in the
  West, and on his return to Pennsylvania located at Sand Beach, Dauphin county,
  where he engaged in the mill-
    
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  ing business. Remaining there two years, he came to Boiling Springs,
  Cumberland county, and for five years ran the old Boiling Springs mills, in
  1902 settling at his present location. He is now doing business at the old
  Leidigh mills, at Leidigh's Station, along the Philadelphia & Reading
  railroad, enjoying as good a patronage as any of the mills along the Yellow
  Breeches creek. He also carries on a coal business, in which line he has made
  quite a success, being properly considered one of the most thrifty young men
  in the township.
    
    Mr. Bacastow was married, June 18th, 1902, to Miss L. Goldie Rinehart,
  daughter of John and Sarah Jane Rinehart, of Boiling Springs. Mr. Bacastow
  follows in the footsteps of his forefathers, being a Democrat in politics and
  a Lutheran in religious faith. Fraternally, he is a member of Lodge No. 91, 
  I. O. O. F., Carlisle; Lodge No. 21, F. & A. M., Harrisburg; B. P. O. E., No.
  578, Carlisle; Knights of Malta, Mechanicsburg; Knights of Pythias, Allen;
  Patriotic Sons of America, Hummelstown; and Modern Woodmen of America, of
  Boiling Springs.