BIO: GIVLER Family, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 468-469
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    GIVLER. The name of Givler is familiar among the agriculturists of
  Cumberland county, at present being borne by Joseph and Peter B. Givler,
  brothers, who are engaged in the cultivation of their old homestead, their
  welfare being ably looked after by their capable sister, Miss Mary.
    
    Adam Givler, the father of Givler Brothers, was born in Franklin county in
  1816, and there grew to manhood and married. His life was devoted to farm
  work, first in his native county, and later he moved to Cumberland county,
  in 1847, locating on the farm now occupied by his children. This comprises
  about seventy acres of rich productive land, which by systematic care and
  up-to-date methods has been brought to a high state of cultivation, and is
  well improved with a comfortable dwelling, bank barn and good outbuildings.
  It is located two miles east of Shippensburg. Adam
    
    CUMBERLAND COUNTY.  469
    
  Givler married, in 1838, Nancy Burkholder, who was born near Newburg,
  Cumberland county, in 1818. She was the daughter of Peter and Mary M.
  (Goodyear) Burkholder; she died in 1897, in her seventy-ninth year. Adam
  Givler died in 1854. He and his wife were the parents of six children, as
  follows: Joseph; Peter B.; William; Daniel; Mary, at home; and Caroline,
  deceased. The father was a man well posted on the current events of the day,
  and was fearless in expression. He voted in favor of Democratic principles,
  and he was an able adviser in party councils, being practical in his ideas,
  and possessed of much wisdom and good judgment. In his religious connection
  he was a Lutheran.
    
    Joseph and Peter B. Givler now farm the homestead as partners. Joseph was
  born in Franklin county in 1843, but was reared chiefly in Cumberland county.
  Peter B. received a liberal education, and has a progressive and enterprising
  spirit. Both are well liked socially, and they are generally regarded as
  exceptionally fine young men.