BIO: U. G. EPPLEY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 391-392
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    U. G. EPPLEY, proprietor of the "United States Hotel" at Mt. Holly Springs,
  Cumberland county, is a native of North Middleton township, same county, born
  July 3, 1867, son of Samuel and Amanda E. (Hoon) Eppley.
    
    Mr. Eppley was reared in his native township, and educated in the district
  schools of his neighborhood, and the Greason academy. After completing his
  course of study, he engaged in clerking in a grocery store in Carlisle for
  five years, and then entered the livery business on South street, near
  Hanover, continuing for nine years, during which time he handled many horses,
  and was very successful. Selling his livery business in 1900, he went to
  Mechanicsburg, and bought the "National Hotel," which he conducted until
  Sept. 15, 1902, when he sold out, and in April, 1903, he took charge of the
  "United States Hotel" at Mt. Holly Springs. Since he was a lad of seventeen
  or eighteen, he has been engaged in handling horses, and he is still
  interested along this line, making a specialty of high grade horses. When but
  nineteen years old he made his first trip to Kentucky with the purpose of
  buying horses. In all of his operations in horse flesh, Mr. Eppley has been
  associated with Thomas M. Derr, and they have the honor of bringing to
  Cumberland county the finest horses which have ever been within its confines.
  Some of the best track horses in this portion of the State, have passed
  through his hands, and he is a recognized authority. The famous "Rockport,"
  who made a record of 2:11 1/4, in 1903, was bought by him at Lexington, Ky.,
  and later sold. Since then this horse has attained still greater speed. He is
  at present the owner of two horses, "Bonita Boy," a pacer, which he brought
  from Lexington, Ky., in 1904, and which has a record of 2:22 3/4, and "Mt.
  Holly Boy," a green pacer with good prospects.
    
    In connection with his hotel, Mr. Eppley operates a fine livery business,
  and is an extensive dealer in hogs and cattle, his business operations
  attaining stupendous figures. He ships his stock to all parts of the country,
  and is one of the leading stockmen of this section of the State. Mr. Eppley is
  well-fitted for his business of conducting a hotel,
    
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  and makes his hostelry an ideal home for the traveling public. In manner he
  is genial and courteous, and he has hosts of friends wherever he is known. In
  politics he is a stanch Republican, and a hard worker for his party.
  Fraternally, he is a member of the K. of P., the B. P. O. E. and the Royal
  Arcanum, and he is also a member of the Cumberland County Fair Association.
    
    On Oct. 13, 1897, Mr. Eppley was married to Miss Fannie Hoffman, daughter
  of Lewis and Clara Hoffman, and one child, Paul Willis, was born to them in
  1900.