BIO: JAMES M. DUNCAN, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 356-357
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    JAMES M. DUNCAN, a prominent representative of one of the old Cumberland
  county families, is a successful farmer and stock raiser of Newton township.
  He was born on a farm known as the old Duncan homestead in West Pennsboro
  township.
    
    Daniel G. Duncan, father of James M., married Miss Griselda Linn, who was
  born in Franklin county, in 1825, and who died in 1899, being buried in the
  Presbyterian graveyard at Newville. Both parents were consistent members of
  the Presbyterian Church, in which the father was an elder for a number of
  years. In politics he was a Democrat, but did not aspire to be an office
  holder. During a long and useful life, he accumulated considerable property,
  and was a man highly esteemed by a wide circle of friends. The children born
  to himself and wife were: William Linn, of Newton township; Mary G.; Samuel
  A.; Emma J.; Glenn, deceased; John K., of Nebraska; Elizabeth; Sarah P.;
  James M.; Flora G.; Eva.
    
    James M. Duncan commenced his education at the district school known as the
  Oak Flat schoolhouse, continued it at the high
    
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  school at Newville, and completed it at Springfield, West Pennsboro township.
  Upon leaving school, he returned to the farm and assisted his father until he
  attained his majority. He then began farming on his own account on the Duncan
  homestead, and after the death of his father, when the estate was settled, Mr.
  Duncan purchased the McCullough farm of eighty-nine acres, upon which are a
  good bank barn, a comfortable dwelling, and all necessary sheds. As yet he
  has not married, but carries on his farm himself, and has made it into one of
  the best in this locality. Mr. Duncan, himself, is very popular and has proven
  himself an excellent farmer and public spirited citizen.