BIO: SAMUEL ALEXANDER GARLAND, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 454-455
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    SAMUEL ALEXANDER GARLAND, a prominent retired farmer of Carlisle Springs,
  Cumberland county, was born Jan. 29, 1830, in Saville township, Perry Co.,
  Pa., and comes of an old German family which settled in Berks county at an
  early day. His grandfather, John Garland, was born in Perry county, as was
  also his son John, the father of our subject. John Garland, Jr., was born on
  a farm between Loysville and Shermans Dale, in 1791, and his death occurred
  in 1863. On March 12, 1815, he married Mary Ann Minick, daughter of John
  Minick, whose ancestors also came from Germany, and she died in her
  eighty-fourth year. The children born to this marriage were as follows: Nancy
  Ann, wife of Jonathan Saunderson; Julia Ann; Catherine, Mrs. Jacob Clouser, of
  Perry county; John, of Perry county; Daniel, who served as a soldier in the
  Civil war from Perry county; Anna, second wife of Jonathan Saunderson;
  William, a veteran of the Civil war, of Lanark, Ill.; Sarah, widow of Jacob
  Smith, of Perry county; and Samuel Alexander, the seventh member of the
  family. John Garland was a Democrat, but being opposed to slavery changed his
  political allegiance to the Republican party.
    
    Samuel A. Garland was educated in the local schools, the first one he
  attended being held in an old blacksmith shop; at that time the schools were
  conducted on the subscription plan. Later he went to school at Andersonburg,
  where he applied himself so closely that he was given a certificate to teach
  school, which vocation he followed for six years. He then began farming, an
  occupation he followed until he retired in April, 1903. In 1871 he bought a
  farm of 124 acres in North Middleton township, Cumberland county, which he
  occupied until 1897, when he removed to a farm owned by his second wife in
  Middlesex township, on which he remained five years, at the end of that time
  buying his present comfortable home at Carlisle Springs.
    
    About 1855 Mr. Garland married Sarah Agnes Averill, of Perry county, who
  died in 1893, in North Middleton township. His second marriage, which took
  place in June, 1898, was to Mrs. Anne E. Kell, widow of Harry Kell, and
  daughter of Jacob Weary. No children have been born to this union. Those of
  the first marriage were as follows: Lemuel Todd, who is engaged in a shipping
  business in British Columbia; Walter L., deceased; George A., of Illinois;
  Stinson P., of near Greason, Cumberland county; James, of Cumberland county;
  Blaine, of Nebraska; Kate Olive, deceased; and Grace, Mrs. Harry Hershman, of
  Harrisburg.
    
    Both Mr. Garland and his wife are leading members of the Lutheran Church.
  In politics he has been a Republican since the first campaign of Abraham
  Lincoln, of whom he was a great admirer. Mr. Garland has many personal
  friends in North Middle-
    
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  ton township, where he was elected for six terms as supervisor on the
  Republican ticket, although the township is largely Democratic. Formerly he
  was connected with G. A. R. Post No. 201, of Carlisle, to which connection he
  was entitled by virtue of his service in Company A, 20th Pa. Vol. Cav. He
  enlisted June 16, 1863, and served until Jan. 10, 1864, participating in
  various battles and skirmishes.