BIO: SAMUEL M. KITNER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 481-482
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      SAMUEL M. KITNER, one of the most highly respected residents of Middlesex
  township, Cumberland county, was born Jan. 6, 1856, in Carroll township, near
  Bloomfield, Perry county, and received an excellent education in the district
  schools of his neighborhood. At the age of eighteen years he came to
  Cumberland county, and eventually located near the Carlisle Sulphur Spring,
  where he is now living. He farmed successfully for a number of years. In
  politics he is a stanch Republican, and has served as supervisor a number of
  times, filling that office to the entire satisfaction of his constituents.
  When the United States appointed the rural delivery carriers he was one of
  the first seven chosen, his route being No. 2.
      
      In the winter of 1879 Mr. Kitner married Elizabeth Ellen Kutz, who was
  born Aug. 1, 1859, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Keihl) Kutz. She was
  born in Cumberland county, and is a devout member of the Lutheran Church, Mr.
  Kitner also clinging to that faith. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
  Kitner: Sarah Elizabeth, born Sept. 29, 1880, married John H. Snyder, and
  they have two children, Blanch Cecilia and Edith May. Minnie Jane, born Aug.
  24, 1882, died June 9, 1884. Charles Irwin, born June 11, 1886, married Emma
  Jane Garman.
      
      On June 16, 1894, Mr. Kitner and his son had a most remarkable
  experience. They were just getting up and partially dressed when the house
  was struck by lightning, and some of the curtains in the sitting room were
  burned; the cloth on a table holding the Bible was also burned. Mr. Kitner
  and his son Charles were not injured, and the rest of the family were
  fortunately away.
      
      Abraham Kitner, father of Samuel M., was born in 1830 in Perry county,
  near Bloomfield. He was a soldier in the Civil war, and was mustered out with
  a clean, honorable record. After the war was over he returned to Perry county,
  and died in 1896. He married Sarah Smith, who was born in the same place May
  25, 1836, and both were members of the Bethel Church. Mrs. Kitner died in
  1892. The family born of this marriage was as follows: Charles Edward, born
  Jan. 5, 1857, died April 21, 1858; Sarah Frances, born Jan. 14, 1859,
      
      482  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
      
  died June 9, 1862; John Wesley, born April 2, 1860, died June 2, 1861;
  Abraham Lincoln, born April 14, 1861, died Oct. 14, 1863; Isaac Filmore, born
  Sept. 15, 1862, died Nov. 1, 1900; George Washington was born April 6, 1864;
  Amanda Jane, born April 6, 1865, married William Wickard, and they have five
  children, Maud, Anna, John, Charles and Erma; Anna Catherine, born March 19,
  1867, married John Reeder, and has one child, Edward; Barbara Ellen, born
  March 29, 1868, married Joseph Clouser, and has six children, Hubert,
  Raymond, Francis, Ada, Edward and Ellen; Alice Rebecca, born Oct. 21, 1869,
  married Jerome Zeigler; Jacob Stambaugh, born July 25, 1871, married Florence
  Frye; Christian Hess, born May 25, 1874, married Mary Thomas; David Owens was
  born March 8, 1876; Mary Isabel, born July 10, 1879, married Charles Karnes,
  and has children, Laura and Mary Ellen.