BIO:  GEORGE McCALEB, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 726-728
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    GEORGE McCALEB, who has resided on his present farm in Newton township,
  Cumberland county, for over fourteen years, was born in that township, near
  Stoughstown, in 1857.
    
    Alexander McCaleb, Sr., his grand-father, was married in Adams county, this
  State, and came thence to Cumberland county, settling at Springfield, in Penn
  township,
    
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  where he and his wife both died. They were buried in the Presbyterian
  cemetery at Newville. They were the parents of the following named children:
  John and his wife died in Santa Barbara, Cal.; Jacob and Robert died in Iowa;
  Joseph died in Clinton county, Pa.; Alexander is mentioned below; James was
  suffocated while digging in a well at Stoughstown, and was buried at Newville.
    
    Alexander McCaleb, Jr., father of George, was born in 1821 at Springfield,
  and received a common school education. He was employed in a drug store for a
  short time in early life, and later engaged in well digging, an occupation
  which many members of the family have followed. For a few years he also
  worked as millwright near Springfield, where he located. Later he took up
  farming in Newton township, on the McKee farm, where he remained four years.
  For the next nine years he lived along the Big Spring road, near the town of
  Big Spring, Newville, and in 1865 he bought a farm of 157 acres in Newton
  township, upon which he lived for thirteen years. Selling this property he
  bought a small place near Newville, where he resided until he sold off his
  household goods and went to make his home with his daughter, Elizabeth, Mrs.
  Charles Leib, in Bloserville, Frankford township.
    
    On May 30, 1849, Mr. McCaleb married Annie Zeigler, daughter of William and
  Margret Zeigler, of Newville, and they became the parents of the following
  named children: Alice received a good education, graduating from the
  Shippensburg Normal, and is now the wife of Solomon Shelton, a carpenter of
  Newton township; Bell is the wife of Samuel Fry, who is engaged in business
  in Harrisburg, and lives in West Pennsboro township; George is mentioned
  below; Elizabeth is married to Charles Leib, a merchant of Bloserville; Laura
  is the wife of Fred Mentzer, who is at present serving as deputy sheriff of 
  Cumberland county; Albert died at the age of twenty-three, and is buried at 
  Newville; Annie M. graduated at Shippensburg, taught for a time in Cumberland 
  county, and is now married to Ervin Weast, who is engaged in the baking business 
  at Carlisle.
    
    George McCaleb received a good practical education in the common schools,
  which he attended until he was eighteen years old. He lived at home,
  assisting his father, until he was twenty-one, when he went west to Illinois,
  in which State he remained three years, engaged in farming. Returning home he
  again assisted his father for a year, and then, marrying, he settled on the
  Drawbaugh farm in Newton township for a year. From that place Mr. McCaleb and
  his young wife moved onto his father's farm, where they made their home four
  years, at the end of that time renting the Greene farm, one mile east of
  Oakville. After five years' residence there they removed, in 1882, to their
  present home in Newton township, also near Oakville - the old McCune farm of
  eighty acres, which Mr. McCaleb bought. Here he sunk a well, and he has a
  very pleasant home and profitable farm. His land is fertile and well
  cultivated, and is especially known for the apples it produces, being the
  best in the section for that particular fruit. Mr. McCaleb is an industrious
  and intelligent farmer, one who has placed himself in comfortable
  circumstances by well directed effort, and he is universally respected. He
  has taken quite an active part in local politics as an ardent Republican, and
  has served as an inspector and member of the election board in Newton township.
    
    In 1882 Mr. McCaleb married Miss Elizabeth Heberlig, daughter of John C.
  and Catherine (Mowery) Heberlig, of
    
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  Hopewell township, Cumberland county. Mr. Heberlig died in 1902 and was
  buried at Zion's Church; his widow is now living with her daughter, Mrs.
  Brandt, of Mifflin township. Eight children have come to Mr. and Mrs.
  McCaleb: J. N., who is engaged in burning lime, having a large business at
  the old Miller kilns; Lottie; Lawrence, who attends school at Newville;
  Annie; Charles Orin; Lois; Chloe; and Mary. The parents are members of the
  Lutheran Church at Newville.