BIO: JOHN B. OCKER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 392-393
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    JOHN B. OCKER, one of the young and progressive farmers of Middlesex
  township, was born in Pennsboro township, Cumberland county, March 12, 1876,
  son of John and Mary (Sites) Ocker.
    
    John Ocker is a native of Cumberland county also, born in November, 1843. A
  man of much natural ability, he was given a good education, but instead of
  taking up some professional life decided to remain a farmer, an occupation to
  which he had been accustomed from boyhood. He now resides on a farm in West
  Pennsboro township. Politically he is a Republican. He and his wife, who is
  also a native of the county, and a daughter of Jacob Sites, have had a family
  of twelve children, namely: Susan, who married Page Line, and lives near
  Carlisle; William, deceased, who lived to the age of seven; Annie, Mrs. Elmer
  Jacoby, who lives near Newville; Frances, wife of Harry Rutz, of Silver Spring
  township; Emma, who married Charles Leib, of Boiling Springs, Pa.; John B.;
  Addie, deceased; Alfred and Viva, twins; Samuel E.; Henderson; and Jacob.
    
    John B. Ocker attended the public schools of the township until he was
  eighteen and the next year, in 1895, married and settled down as a farmer.
  His wife, who was Sarah Anthony, of Frankford township, Cumberland county,
  has borne him four children, Leroy, John, Bertha and Norman. They lived in
  Upper Frankford township until 1903, when Mr. Ocker bought his present farm,
  a tract embracing eighty acres. Here, in connection with his farming
  operations, he has one of the very latest im-
    
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  proved hydraulic cider presses. Mr. Ocker is thoroughly modern in his
  methods, wide-awake and energetic, and is one of the rising young farmers of
  the region. In his political sentiment he is a Republican.