BIO: CHARLES FREMONT MARKLEY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 181-183
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    CHARLES FREMONT MARKLEY, one of the prominent and representative citizens
  of Cumberland county, was born Aug. 29, 1856, in Butler township, Adams
  county, a son of John C. and Isabella A. (Weaver) Markley.

    John C. Markley was born in 1831, in Franklin county, Pa., a son of Daniel
  and Anna (Cockley) Markley, of Lancaster county. Grandfather Markley removed
  to Cumberland county and engaged in farming near Slate Hill, in Lower Allen
  township, a few years afterward removing to Franklin county, where he farmed
  and owned a sawmill. Later he moved to Idaville in Adams county, and then
  retired, being advanced in years. John C. Markley received an excellent
  education, as his parents were in easy circumstances, and was reared to
  practical farming. He married Isabella A. Weaver, of Adams county, and after
  his marriage settled on a farm in Adams county which he operated until he
  engaged in the manufacture of windmills, of which he was a patentee. At a
  later date he resumed farming, in Butler township, Adams county. He became
  one of the most prominent and respected men of that locality, and for
  twentytwo years served as a justice of the peace. His father, Daniel Markley,
  was also a justice of the peace for many years, and his brother, Daniel H.,
  served as such at York Springs, for thirty years. John C. Markley died in
    
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  November, 1894, and was laid to rest in the cemetery at the U. B. Church
  at Center Mills, Adams county. His widow still survives. Children as follows
  were born to John C. Markley and his wife : Urith died young; Florence
  married John Brame, of Butler township, Adams county; Charles Fremont is
  mentioned below; Ruth Ann died young; Harry is a resident of Lemoyne; Georgia
  married Adam Hotz, of Harrisburg; Grace married Howard Newcomer, of Lemoyne;
  William, of Harrisburg, married Kitty Yoder.

    Charles F. Markley attended the district schools in Butler township until
  he was fifteen years of age and remained on the home farm until he reached
  maturity. At the age of fifteen he began to learn the milling business,
  which he followed for fourteen years. In 1885 he left Adams county and
  located at Oyster's Mill, on the Yellow Breeches creek, near Jacksonville,
  Cumberland county, remaining there for the best part of three years,
  operating the mill for Elias Oyster. He then operated the Henry Brechbill
  mill, near Mt. Holly, for one year, and then the Craighead mill, at Craighead
  Station, for four years. Mr. Markley then removed to Harrisburg for two years
  and was in the employ of the Reading Railroad Co., in the freight department,
  for about six years. In 1895 he came to Lemoyne. With Clarence Crow, and later
  with Robert Byers, he formed what was known as the Lemoyne Cigar Box Mfg. Co.,
  an enterprise which was continued for three years. Since then Mr. Markley has
  followed contract plastering. In 1900 he was elected to the office for which
  the members of this family seem, by nature, to be especially fitted, that of
  justice of the peace. His term of office continues until 1905, and doubtless
  he will fill the responsible position for many more years.

    Mr. Markley was married, in 1878, in Adams county, to Alice G. Frazier, a
  daughter of Stephen S. Frazier, formerly a carpenter at York Springs, where
  he was born. Mr. Frazier followed carpenter work and cabinetmaking until he
  enlisted for service in the Civil war, in 1862 entering Company I, 165th P. V. I., 
  and he died in the hospital at Norfolk, Va., in 1863. At a later date
  to the members of his company, by whom he was much beloved, had his body
  embalmed and reburied at York Springs, and in a body followed the remains to
  their last resting place. He was a Republican in his political attitude,
  having been a Whig in earlier life, and in religion he was a consistent
  member of the Methodist Church. After an interval of fourteen years Mrs.
  Frazier was married to Philip Beamer, who died in December, 1892. The
  children of Mr. and Mrs. Frazier were as follows: Ellen married Eli LaRue,
  of York Springs; Florence married Levi Smith, of Kansas City; Alice G. became
  Mrs. Markley; Stephen, of York Springs, married Alice Mengas. The Frazier
  family was established in the United States by John Frazier, the grandfather
  of Mrs. Markley, who was probably born in the North of Ireland, of
  Scotch-Irish parentage. He came to America in young manhood, married (first)
  Polly Proctor, and (second) Hannah Smith, and died at York Springs, of which
  he was one of the founders. The children of his first marriage were
  Stephen S.; Elizabeth, Mrs. Jacob Tanger, of Adams county; Proctor, who
  died young; and of his second union: Emily, Mrs. Simon Musselman, of Dayton;
  Eliza, Mrs. Samuel Greer, of Tadmor, Ohio; and Ellen, Mrs. Milton Singer, of
  Dayton, Ohio.

    Mr. and Mrs. Markley are members of the U. B. Church at Wormleysburg, in
  which both are active, Mr. Markley being one of
    
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  the teachers in the Sunday-school. They have two children, Clarence and
  Helen. Politically, he is a Republican, and fraternally, he belongs to the
  Modern Woodmen.