BIO: ORON LONG, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 297-298
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    ORON LONG, who has carved his own way to a comfortable competence, was born
  in Perry county, Pa., Aug. 17, 1854, son of Lewis and Sarah (Brandt) Long.
    
    Lewis Long was a native of Greenwood township, Perry county, where he
  attended the public schools. At the age of twenty years he began the practice
  of medicine, and for about twenty years followed that calling in Perry county.
  In 1868 he began the mercantile business in Greenwood township, which occupied
  his attention until his death, Nov. 4, 1894. When he was twenty he was married
  to Sarah Brandt, daughter of Abraham and Mary Brandt, of Perry county. Mrs.
  Long still survives and carries on the business left by her husband.
    
    Oron Long attended the public schools of his native township until he
  attained his majority. In 1873 he engaged in the iron ore mining business,
  and the following year he began well drilling. In 1875 he moved from Perry
  county to Cumberland, and here continued his business of well drilling until
    
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  1884, when he entered the machine business, which proved most remunerative.
  In 1894 he located in Dickinson township, purchasing the old George Line
  farm, about four miles from Carlisle. He has since found general farming to
  his liking, and has made his place one of the attractive farms of the
  township.
    
    On Jan. 13, 1881, Mr. Long was married to Rebecca J. Line, daughter of
  George and Rebecca Line, and five children were born to them: Howard L.,
  assisting on the farm; Iva J.; Jay E.; William O.; and Sarah, who died at the
  age of nine years. Mrs. Long died July 5, 1903, and was buried in the home
  cemetery in Dickinson township. She was an earnest Christian woman, a member
  of the Evangelical Church. Mr. Long was reared in the faith of the Dunkard
  Brethren. He is an advocate of temperance in all things, and in his politics
  is a stanch adherent to Prohibition principles.